Wales

After a week and a bit in Scotland, on the go the whole time, we go to Cardiff and just collapsed! We are staying with Brandan, Christines brother, and Sarah. We had a nice dinner and a few drinks when we arrived, but the next morning Brandan had to leave for work a few hours away.

We spent the first few days relaxing and catching up on skype and emails and had a few short walks around town. They have a really nice apartment and its in a great location, 10 min walk from the waterfront and 15 min walk from the city. Unfortunately, for the second time in the UK we got caught out in the rain, big time. We were drenched when the drizzle suddenly turned to torrential rain, while we were walking home one day. Our plans of spending some time in the pub watching the cricket were also washed out.

We had a great time with Sarah, mainly just quiet nights in, but we did head down to the waterfront for burgers one night and a movie. Cardiff is a really nice city, but our time outdoors was cut short by rain every day and our laziness. We did go for a nice walk through some of the parks and past the big stadium one afternoon.

Brandan was home for the weekend and we spent a number of hours in the pub on Saturday. One pub we visited was the aussie pub, had a few Fosters and VBs, best beer in europe! Sadly this night was too awesome, and finished way too late given our 7am train the next morning! Lack of sleep and way too much beer meant we were both feeling very average.

We made it to the train, the first was to London. We then had 45minto take the tube to a different station where we caught a train to Brussels, we made it with 5 minutes to spare, whats the rush! We both had a bit of sleep on the train but still felt pretty terrible.