This is a cut and paste of the itinerary: Our Itinerary reads: Explore Bath, a city of elegant Georgian buildings in a distinctive golden stone. Tour the wonderfully preserved Roman Baths. Head to Cardiff, where you'll take a sightseeing tour of the city before touring Cardiff Castle, a medieval castle fabulously renovated in Victorian Gothic style. Dine in your hotel this evening. So, we are inside Cardiff Castle.
The ceilings were gorgeous.
One of the walls in the nursery. Cardiff Castle is one of Wales leading heritage attractions. From the Roman occupation, to the Norman Conquest, through Civil War, The Victorian transformation and the terrors of WWII, there are 2,000 years of history in the castle right in the heart of the city. Picture after picture. There's so much to see on every wall, on every ceiling you hardly can take it all in. Murals and symbols throughout the castle.Even the rooftop area was gorgeous. The Bute family left their mark transforming the house into the opulent Victorian Gothic Home it is today. After departing Cardiff Castle, we headed Mercure Hotel, were we lodged just for 1 night.Once again we were super rushed to check in, get out luggage and change for dinner, so no time to take our own pictures of the hotel, so these are from the hotel's webpage.
In the morning we'll head north from Cardiff.
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What an amazing place!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen anything like it before. The details, the colors, truly awesome.
DeleteOh wow. That must have been worth the rush in the hotel, at least.
ReplyDeleteRight you are Liz, it was amazing to see, so being a bit rushed at the hotel before dinner was worth it.
DeleteA quilt shop near here is advertising a quilting trip, and they have shown photos of some of the places you've been. It might be the same trip that you took.
ReplyDeleteThat would be really cool to combine travel and quilts. Are you going to go?
DeleteThe castle is amazing in its details! Quite the juxtaposition between the old and the more modern hotel.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the castle, never seen anything like it. And then you're right the hotel was so modern, sorta had to blink twice.
DeleteVery beautiful photos! How many memories, I visited the Castle and the city. Moreover I entered a 5 km race in Grangemoor.
ReplyDeleteHowever I was sad when I saw in the castle 2 hawks in chain and blindfolded.
I'm not understanding your comment about hawks and blindfolded. It's cool you did a race there.
DeleteIn the garden inside the castle, some birds were raised and among them there were 2 hawks who were chained to the perch and blindfolded.
DeleteThanks for the follow up, we didn't see that when we were there. Glad we didn't.
DeleteWe really did Victor. Did a lot, learned alot.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe that is actually a home. Feels like an old chapel of some sort.
ReplyDeleteI know, I was truly flabbergasted.
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