The B&B was a bust. It was clean but when we first got there when I went to close he bathroom door the handle came clean off. Then the showers didn't drain at all. Oh well we decided to stay just the one night instead of the three we originally booked.
So off we went and this was an easy day other than booking another hotel which we ended up at a holiday inn express.
We started the day at a beach. There was an old castle estate on the coast that was demolished in 1965 but the walled gardens still existed. This was interesting cause it looks like they took down the castle and filled in the basement with the rubble. So there are archways that are sticking up under the ground you are walking on. Kinda eerie. Anyway the beach was layers of rocks and I found some fossilized snail like shell things. Fun stuff.
Next we went to the museum at St Fagans. This was great, it's an original castle home with some original buildings but in the 1950's they started buying oldplaces around wales and relocating them here. So you walk a country road, paved of course, come to think of it no matter how small the road we have not been on a dirt road. Each house had a sign on its location, use and history. They had a mill, tannery, church, smithery, store and different builds of farmhouses. People where available for questions, they explained each piece is marked and removed and them the place is reconstructed as original.
They showed the restoration of a walled garden. It's amazing what they did as they start clearing the overgrowth on these places.
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