A Wale of a Good Time

15 February, 2014

The adventure continues, this time to a whole new country! Sure, it was Wales, which is still a part of the United Kingdom but… it counts J

Our coach left at 8:30; much too early for most of our liking and resultantly, yet another bus ride was spent in slumber by most of our group. By the time we reached Cardiff, we were in desperate need of some energy. We were therefore happy to find sanctuary in Costa; a nice chain coffee shop that provided us not only with caffeine and breakfast, but access to a hotel lobby and concierge who was very kind in helping us plan out our day.

The first and most obvious stop was made at Cardiff Castle (the first of hopefully many castles to come)! It was a truly spectacular sight and was tons of fun to explore. 

After that, we split into two groups. The three nerdiest of us trekked over to the bay and the Doctor Who Experience, while the others headed to the museum and street shopping area. After a truly cheese-tastic experience that is only to be expected from Doctor Who, we began the trip back to the rest of our group.

We made a slight detour for some more of the bay experience. Unfortunately, this included a bathroom break that resulted in our losing the only member of our group without a UK mobile phone. After Mattie and I searched frantically around the mall, exclaiming all the while that we were horrible parents for our poor baby Rachel, we finally located her wandering around the upper levels.

Setting off again – albeit much later than we had originally intended – we finally reconnected with the rest of our group and retired to a pub nearby while we waited for our time to meet the bus. 4 hours, 2 pizzas, several pints, and some interesting football (soccer) musings later, we eventually made our way indirectly to the bus stop.

When we had finally arrived back in Bristol, we walked home a reluctant Katrina – who couldn’t understand why we didn’t want her to make the 30 minute trek at nearly midnight on Saturday by herself. After another brief detour to meet some of her flatmates and observe (without any understanding) their poker game, we finally made it back to the heart of Bristol where we resigned to our respective houses and understood with full certainty that we were about to get a very good night's sleep.

Because she truly is awesome, here is Rachel's video of the day! She captures it so much better than I could in my million words :P

If that simply wasn't enough Rachel awesome-ness for you, here's the link to her blog of Cardiff :)