England and Wales trip in 1999
In London September 6, 1999 and spent a sleepless night at a hotel where the noise level was high with all sorts of activity all night. Sounded like there was a belly dance studio next door, then a drunk woman was screaming until someone called the police, and then workmen started pounding on something for hours until 4 a.m. We were to greet our friends Roger, Emily, and Gloria the next day, but someone nicked Gloria’s purse and she had to get to the passport office. Since Roger, Emily and Gloria would be busy most of the day, we decided to get out of town and get to the meeting place a day earlier. We took the train to Chester that morning.
We found a quiet B&B in Chester and purchased a city bus tour since we would be in town for an extra day.
Chester’s most recognisable landmark, the Eastgate is the original entrance to the Roman fortress of Deva. Chester was founded in AD 70 as the Roman fortress of Deva Victrix.
Standing next to a weird tree trunk someplace in England.
Note the extra letters in the above. We met our friends the next day in Chester and took a cab to the town of Llangollen, Wales. From there we will meet up with Dorthy and Jeremy who own a canal boat. But first we’re going to check out the town.
Valle Crucis Abbey was founded in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, on the site of a temporary wooden church and was the last Cistercian monastery to be built in Wales. Roger and I saw the ruins way up on a hillside and decided we would hike up there and take a look. (Note that our corgi Duncan Madog used the name due to his Welsh heritage)
There is a canal in Llangollen and on the way back from the abbey, Roger and I took a short ride on this horse drawn canal boat, So tomorrow we start our adventure “On the Cut”.