Tuesday 19th June
Cardiff to Popitt Sands YHA in Wales
Still problems with Gmail
in morning. Had good breakfast at our faded hotel ( radiators in old
places are grand for drying a weeks
worth of handwashing in the bathroom) Then headed off to Alamo depotin
Cardiff to check out the insurance for
Ireland –very nasty shock,
a) insurance for this
had not been done at Heathrow
b) they wont let us take our beautiful Volvo out
of the UK i.e wont let us take it to the Republic of Ireland.
They have a policy of not letting high end modern cars leave
UK as they may end up on the black market in Albania or some such place. Took sometime
to sort out but in the end we have certificate to take a car to Ireland but the
car we can take is a Zafira, similar to the one we had in UK 3 years ago. But
no “in car Sat Nav, no heated leather seats, no sunroof. How the mighty have
fallen ! However does have a larger luggage compartment which will be really
useful when Caro and Emily join us in Edinburgh but has no inbuilt Sat Nav and
no way of connecting iPod so we can drive along to various favourite music.
Fortunately I hadn’t sent my TomTom home and had loaded UK and Ireland on to it
so we can navigate fairly well in conjunction with iPad google maps.
Then headed off to Apple shop, in big shopping mall in middle of Cardiff, to
see if they could sort out our Gmail problem. Turned out they didn’t need to
cos when both devices tuned on in Apple store heaps of gmails came flooding in
–so possibly a problem with the wifi at B&B or problem with gmail server.
But other problem was that we lost the parking ticket for
this huge mall even before we got out of the car !! Had to trudge off to admin
office there and then talk to security who checked video of entering so in end
we paid just the 3 gbp rather than 20 gbp for lost ticket. And guess what? we
found the ticket 6 hours later in with the potatoes in our travelling grocery
store.
So finally left Cardiff about 1 pm and went by Caerphilly
where they make famous cheese and then our
Tom Tom took us to this amazing place called Poppit Sands YHA above cardigan
Bay on the west coast of Wales You have to leave car at top of about 50 steps
or even down the hill and walk to hostel. Simple Welsh cottage perched on
hillside but now a bit eco. Couple of horses grazing down below and herd of Freisan
heifers and steers in the paddock above. A few boats and kayaks down below us but so quiet.
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| Looking across Cardigan Bay from Poppit YHA |
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| One of the locals |
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| Sunset at Poppit Sands YHA |
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| Morning light at Poppit Sands |
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