A Dip into Wales

The ferry takes three and a half hours from Ireland to Fishgaurd in Wales. Wales is one of the four countries that makes up the United Kingdom.

Right away, we noticed Welsh language on the signage (along with English, thankfully) and we are no longer using metric and the Euro. The speed limit is in Miles per hour. It took a bit to figure that out, so we held up traffic awhile but still driving on the left and very narrow streets.

It was notably drier and warmer than in southern Ireland. In Aberystwyth, a beach town where we stayed, it was 36 Celsius! Yes, they use Celsius. That’s around 97 degrees F with air NO conditioning and very few places with fans. Everyone who could be was at the beach, this is terribly hot.

Colorful townhomes line the streets in this area of Wales.

Rock formation at the Aberystwyth Beach.

No lifts and plaid carpet on the stairs in all the beach hotels.

Dinner at the pub, very nice. Hot and sunburnt folks all around.

A beautiful sunset from my room, we could finally open the curtains.
It did cool quickly at night.

Views along the water front. There was a lot of scaffolding in place around the water front. It appeared they were keeping up or revitalizing the area.