Conwy Wales

With only a few weekends remaining here in the UK (Yea!) I started trying to figure out where to go last weekend. I was talking to a staff member and one of the youth center kids on Thursday and asked them where I should go. They both said that they really liked Conwy. That was enough for me.

I looked it up, saw that it is one of the best examples of a walled medieval city in the world and it had a castle. Plus it was on the coast! Who wouldn't want to go there? So, Saturday morning I headed to the train station at Ely (past the

Drainage Museum once again - I've got to get by there before I leave). Off I go on the train.

Train travel is a great thing but it's not always quite so glamerous as one thinks. To get to Conwy I h

ad to take four trains, stopping at twenty-five stations, with a maximum of nine minutes to spare between train connections. So, as your train comes into the connecting station you get your bag, stand by the door, get off that train, check to see what platform you came in on, start looking for a departure sign showing what platform your next train is leaving from, rush up the stairs (it never works out that you can stay on the same platform...) and then down to the correct platform and get on the train and find a seat. Whew.

To get off the train at Conwy you have to notify the conductor that you want to stop there or else the train won't stop. Then you have to make your way to the front of the train as they only open one door for people that are getting on or off there. I was one of four that got off there.

To get a perspective of the size of the town, from the station I walked two blocks to the hotel, past the hotel another block was the harbour, to the right two blocks was the castle, two blocks the other way from the hotel was the wall on the other side of town, four or five blocks the other side of the station was the wall. We're talking small town.

The castle is just what you think of in the movies. It was the royal castle of the King when he was in Wales.

The scenery was beautiful, the people were friendly. I spent the night an headed back the next afternoon. Overall it is the prettiest thing I have seen in the UK with the exception of Joann!

Castle Pics are here.

Town pics are here.