Travelog for: Frankie_Blue

Hello Mummy,

I have arrived in Wales.

Get me out of here!

Hello, I think I can squeeze through this hole!

Yes! I am free, free at last. Hello, my name is Frankie Blue, what are your names?

Hi Mum,

My host is a postcrosser and penpaller. She wanted to go out the postbox. She had 2 letters and some Postcrossing postcards to send on their way so we went to this postbox.

Afterwards, we went to a cafe for a nice cup of tea.

Hello Mum,
Today is another nice sunny day. My host decided to take some of us toys to a World Heritage Site - Caernarfon Castle.

It is quite a long castle.

We climbed up a tower by a spiral staircase. My host found it hard to get the lightning right and used her photo editing software to show us better.

In the background are some of the hills and mountains of Snowdonia.

The castle is built on the side of the River Seiont.

We are rather high up!

It is a long way down, so glad I have a break from being photographed high up with a long drop behind me!

we've come to the other side of the castle. That's a dais.

This is where Prince Charles received the crown to become the Prince of Wales

Though my host wasn't even born in 1969.


Cannons!

I think we were at the top of that building.

Today, Royal Mail issued some nice stamps and my host went out and bought some.

Do you like them?

Today, my host got two parcels in the post

I wonder who our new visitors will be!

The new visitors are Belka and my host's toy, Rendolph

Today, we have come to Conwy.

We stopped off at the Royal National Lifeboat Institute station in Conwy, and made a donation.

Conwy is a walled town. We were able to walk on the walls.

Do you see that little red-painted house down there? That is Britain's smallest house.

Can you see Conwy Castle in the background? We are very high up here!

Look what we found! A small geocache!

That was the tower we were high up.

The castle was built for King Edward in Gwynedd and is listed, along with the town walls as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We didn't have time to go around the castle.

We have come to the other side of the River Conwy to remains of Deganwy Castle, about a mile and a half away from Conwy Castle. It is a bit murky, but perhaps you can make out the bridge and even the castle.

It's another geocache.

It has been a good day.

Hi Mum,
It is a nice quiet Sunday. We didn't do much until the afternoon when we went to Parc Dudley for a walk.

There was also treasure to be found!

A geocache!

Some of the toys are going away on their travels tomorrow, so we thought we'd have a game of Cluedo playing in teams

However, we spent far too much time chatting instead of concentrating on the game and we all drew the 8th clock leaving the crime unsolved.

Today, we went out GeoCaching. We found a couple of caches a couple of miles away and relatively near each other.

The second cache took us on a walk up a lane.

Today, we went out GeoCaching.

The first two we found are part of a series. This is exciting stuff, looking for the treasure. Which stump/tree is it hiding under?

Then, after a nice afternoon cuppa, we found a third.

My host isn't putting in latitude and longitude co-ordinates for this as these caches we found are scattered around.

Today, we went to the allotment.

I decided to help dig this small patch.

It was hard work and as a reward, was allowed some fresh purple sprouting broccoli.

After the allotment, we went Geocaching

We found this one in Aberdesach.

Today, we are going on the train.

This is first class.

Here, we are at Dinas station. When the Welsh Highland Railway was being rebuilt, Dinas was the HQ. There are work trains and carriages, and engines in need of repair.

The railway meets the River Gwyrfai several times along its route.

There's quite a bit of water in the river.

There are fields alongside the railway, this one has horses.

We are coming into Betws Garmon. Can you see the bell in the church tower?

It is a long train. Can you see the steam engine at the other end?

This is Cwellyn, a reservoir supplying water to parts of north Wales.

We've arrived at a half-way station, Rhyd Ddu. This is our engine.

We had to wait for the train coming in the other direction to stop at Rhyd Ddu before we could continue. The train is also steam-hauled.

They've got a first class carriage, but the one we're in was unveiled by the Queen in 2010 after refurbishment.

The carriage is called Glaslyn, after another river this railway meets.

We are off for the second half of the journey. This section was opened last year, and then not all the way to Porthmadog.

There's the River Glaslyn.

Here we are coming into Porthmadog. The river is the Glaslyn here too, the estuary.

The river is the Glaslyn here too

The Glaslyn estuary. And now, we have arrived in Porthmadog. It is time to run for the bus to take us back home before school closes for the day.

We are having a nice game of Settlers of Catan.

A nice day for an afternoon out at Hunstanton.

There's a crazy golf course.

There's The Wash Monster, an amphibious vehicle that now takes people on tours of the coast and seal island.

The promenade was busy.

We grabbed a nice cuppa in the cafe in the sea-life centre.