Day 22 ( Wales)

Today we saw three castles all built by Edward I of England.  On the way to the first one as we were driving into town the tide was out so all the boats were perched on there nice stands on dry land.  By the time we left about 2 hours later the boats were floating around like you'd expect an anchored boat to be doing.

Anyway the first castle was Biwmares.  The one thing I noticed about these castles were they must have been taller than the Scottish because there were not signs everywhere telling you to "mind your head".  This place wasn't on a hill so to protect the castle they had a mote, an outer wall and an inner wall. 

Second castle was Caernarfon.  This place was massive.  The camera couldn't capture the castle from the bottom of the mote to the top of the tower.  

Final castle was Harlech.  The wind was almost blowing us over coming off the coast.  The castle was perched on a hill, it was smaller than others we had seen.  One piece I really like are the fireplaces.  The ones here had large pieces of slate making up the flute.  You can just envision how grand they must have been.

On our way back to the house we came across an area with slate mines.  The hills are just covered in slate pieces.