My sister and I are on a holiday to Wales, we left Verwood quite early in the morning and headed north west towards Bath and then off to Bristol for a quick stop at Ikea to look at sofas of all things.

From there it was a quick hop across the boarder into a place where street signs are bi-lingual and it therefore seems impossible to navigate until you have a knack for ignoring the Welsh directions which make the signs twice as large and twice as complicated to read. Having said this, I think its great that things are in both languages, unfortunately my attempts at pronunciation are laughable and hopefully none of the natives can hear my attempts.

A quick stop - after a long detour the wrong way, ending up in Newport - was made to the ancient roman town of Isca, now Caerleon. There we were able to see the largest surviving amphitheater in Britain and the excavated remains of the fortress baths from the 1st century AD. The one thing that keeps getting to me is how old everything is here.

Roman Amphitheater Caerleon
Roman Amphitheater Caerleon
From Caerleon we made good time to our rented cottage at Dryslwyn Fawr in Carmarthenshire.

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