Day 25 to the seaside at Aberystwyth Wales

How lucky am I off to the sea again. Vo loves the sea so when I said I wouldnt mind seeing both coasts, that was it we were off!!! It is a 3 hour drive straight there but we took our time going through little villages, getting lost, finding where we were again, go me and the map v the sat nav!! I have been taking photos of WW1 memorials for a photographic exhibition I am going to have when I get back at the Albany Memorial Library so I was interested in getting some from Wales while I had the chance. So we stopped at little villages looking for the memorials. Its a bit like a treasure hunt, as you know you are looking for something that should be there but you dont know where it its or what it looks like. It all adds to the fun of it. I have to say the memorials in Wales were beautifully looked after, so nice to see. We had a wander round the village of Newtown looking for the memorial, finding a delicious market on the way where we brought a freshly made apple and raspberry pie and some welsh cakes. Yum!! The hills and paddocks in Wales make it look very green like Nz but we dont have the hedgegrow of course. Since it is deciduous you can see through it at the moment into the paddocks or fields as they are called here. So many English words for the same thing... We had a discussion when we got to Aberystwyth about the lines of wooden posts that go into the water to break up the waves. Vo calls them breakers but in Kent they are called groynes. I asked the barman what the welsh word was but he didnt have a clue!!! Funny. We did go into the bar as it was on the end of the pier, where you had to go according to Vo and of course it had a loo. (-: The village is just beautiful with a headland and a castle and fantastic war memorial one end, to all the victorian seaside buildings to another headland at the other end that you can walk up or get a gondola. It was all so beautiful and so lovely to see the sea again. I do miss it when I am so blessed to see it every day. Anyway, I will leave the pictures to tell the story... we had a fab day