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Time to check out of our hotel and head on. First stop was Caerphilly Castle. It was the day of the cheese festival so it was a bit manic! There was the odd spot of rain and the temperature dropped about 10 degrees which was very welcome! We had a quick look around the town […]

This book is the third in Casey Kelleher’s series about the notorious Byrne family but it is the first I have read and works well as a stand alone novel. Nancy Byrne has taken over her murdered father’s gangster network and is keen to establish herself as a woman in a man’s world. However, she […]

We started our day with Zach’s favourite thing in the world: counting steps! It took a long time… We looked around Llandaff Cathedral and admired the Rosetti triptych before heading to the old bishop’s palace. The main part of our day was spent at St Fagans National Museum (no apostrophe!) which has rescued buildings from […]

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to Global Blogging. We have arrived home from Wales and my host post this week is the start of our Welsh adventure. In this pic, Zach and I are in England but Matthew and Anya are in Wales! We had a lot of rain! But are now back to heatwave […]

Impossible to believe that our Wales holiday began almost 2 weeks ago! Where has the time gone?! Our first stop on the way to Wales was Farleigh Hungerford Castle, an English Heritage property in Somerset. Below is the Lady Tower where Lady Elizabeth Hungerford was imprisoned by her husband and only survived thanks to her […]