Our Europa: So ist das Leben Schön

On Saturday Sarah and Andrew had invited MA (and us by proxy) to Sarah’s birthday party. It was unusual because we were going to go lawn bowling and then have fish and chips at their place. We were certainly game for that.

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On Monday morning we arose and left town to explore Southern Wales. We did a little hike and fed ducks at an old castle, then hiked to Southern Wales’ largest waterfall. It was a bit of a curtain trickle, the summer heat wave is even taking its toll on nature, but it was still lovely.

Feeding the ducks

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The next day we went to the food festival in Cardiff which was fun because we got to try a bunch of Welsh specialties – of course we ended up buying some. That’s the fun part about staying in one place a bit is that you can buy things which would go bad (like soft Welsh Blue Cheese) if you were always on the road.

E Enjoying a nice ice-cream – notice the Welsh Dragon on the cone

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We went with her and her friend Dave who was visiting to the beach at SouthernDown. It was LOVELY. There were tons of sheep around – they are pretty much allowed to run free. We first walked up a hill through a garden and an old ruin. Then we headed back downhill (minding the sheep poo) to the sand. It was low tide and the sand looked like it went forever…must have been at least 150 feet to the water.

The others were scaredy cats and didn’t want to swim in the chilly Atlantic, but I’m always game for a swim so off I went. It was chilly but warmed up (eventually). We then enjoyed some strawberries in the rock pools and went off to home for a dinner party.

That night we met with Dave and two other of MA’s friends (Jace and Anna) for a lovely dinner party in MA’s backyard. It was quite fun and we first noticed the ton of seagulls that love to hang out overhead. (Fortunately none of them sprinkled our meal).

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The trip on the bus to Cardiff, Wales was quite easy. It was an hour with nice views and then, before we knew it, we were passing a big castle in the center of a town and we realized we had arrived.

Before we got off the bus we spied Mary-Ann, smiling as usual.

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