Hello everyone! We have just returned from a 2-week car vacation of Wales and Ireland. It was a great trip and was very fun to see so much beautiful countryside. We started off renting a car in London and driving towards Cardiff, Wales. Along the way we stopped at Tintern Abbey, a beautiful old abbey. Theo was in heaven! All that is in Wales is countryside, a few old castle/abbey ruins and more countryside, so all Theo had to do was play in the grass. We stayed at the abbey for about an hour, Shane and I had tea and scones while Theo discovered a small hill and fell down it, then climbed up, fell down, climbed up…great fun :o) After Tintern we headed to Cardiff, where we spent the night. The other reason Wales is heaven for children is there are no fancy restaurants (if you know of one, please let me know, but we didn’t see any!) So, we ended up at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, where Theo had a delicious kids meal and his first ever milkshake – which he inhaled and promptly had one almost everyday for the rest of our vacation :o)
After Cardiff we drove to Pembroke Castle, the birthplace of the Tudor dynasty. It is a rather large, abandoned castle with lots of fun towers to climb and more open green areas for Theo to roll around. After the castle we headed to Swansea with the plan to spend a few hours there before boarding the car ferry to Cork. I am sorry to say that there is truly nothing to do in Swansea (again, if you disagree, please let me know!) so we sat at a pub for a while after walking the 1 street that contained all of the towns chain restaurants, and then headed to the ferry for Ireland.
Love, Sarah
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