My journey began from London Victoria coach station to Cardiff central, the coach journey itself went pretty quickly surprisingly, the coach driver was rather uhm… what’s the word I am looking for? Hmm, let us say ALERT! For those of us who know the road rules, coach drivers must not drive in the middle lane or the third lane also known as the ‘fast’ lane, ohh but my coach driver did! He was flashing his headlights at the cars ahead, and tailgating *shock horror* he even did this during the torrential rain, and that too on the Severn Bridge (Bridge connecting England and Wales! Nevertheless, I arrived at my destination in one piece and ahead of time :) To my surprise on the journey back I had the same driver, so I fully knew I would arrive back to London ahead of time! During my stay in Cardiff, my and my cousins visited Barry Island, which is a beach for sun sea sand and fun, it concludes of an amusement park, an arcade, and of course the beach, and possibly the yummiest fat chips I have tasted!
We even travelled out to Wiltshire to experience Longleat safari and adventure park, this contained all sorts of amusements, looking at beautiful animals such as Meerkats, Sea lions, Hippopotamus, Elephants and Monkeys to name a few! I also had the chance to go in to a Bat cave; the experience was rather surreal to say the least . The cave was a home to Egyptian fruit bats, and they move around in the dark by producing clicking noises using their tongues, and as they approach an object or humans the clicking rapidly picks up speed and this bizarre method enables them to avoid hurtling onto objects. As interesting as it was, I didn’t wish to stay there for too long, I found my self wanting to leave in case their method failed and one or more came straight at me!
One of the other fun parts of this visit to the safari and adventure park was a hedge maze, which was made in 1975. It is an outdoor maze spread over 1.50 acres of land! It can take anything between 20-90 minutes to complete, depending on how quick one is. (obviously). As a group, we managed it within 30 minutes, which I think was a pretty good time. Moving away from adventure experiences, I also had some winding down time and went to watch a movie ‘Bridesmaid’ it is rather amusing, definitely one to watch, easy to follow and more than gentle comedy thrown at you, I would rate it about 8/10! In between this and that, I went out to eat at Pizza Hut; Wagmama’s and did some shopping in Cardiff central. Overall, it was an enjoyable trip, who knew the Welsh have so much to offer. :)
I shall update you very soon!
Sonia x
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