Monday, November 20, 2006
so i went to check out liverpool and wales during the weekend.honestly...i love to travel. It's this insatiable thirst i have...to get out of one place....everytime i feel suffocated that is...
course if the opportunity comes along, go with the flow ^_^ so took the train with elaine and her dad to liverpool for a night.
DId i mention...trains.are.so.freaking.expensive.
even with a young person's railcard, which cost me 20 freaking pounds to get,it costs like...£31 for a one way ticket to liverpool!!! gah....i almost had a freaking hard attack,my budget alone for the whole trip was 50 pounds.
anyways, liverpool was this small half countryside half city place.apparently it's really famous for its pubs and docklands...i didn't really have the time to explore the place since we had to get to bangor,wales early the next morning.
liverpool didn't really leave much of an impression...
but the nezt day....
that's when it all started..
bangor, wales is a really ulu place in the middle of nowhere..not really the middle of nowhere, since that's where the university of wales is, but we had to take 3 trains to get there. after every stop, we had to wait for like a half hour..in the freezing cold.*since london is the warmest place in the uk, every place to me in freezing cold*
i think we reached wales at the third stop..
you know you're near wales when :
signs and everything are written in welsh and english...
the most i can remember is
araf=slow
you see more sheep everywhere..
the country side looks more wild and untamed..
and then we finally reached bangor...and it was..so amazingly awesome. think pride and prejudice...
i could even see snow at the peak of the mountain tops. which didnt' really elict awe...mostly panic since i kinda assumed it'd be so.freaking.cold.
but welsh 's so fascinating. it's such a mish mash of letters.I finally understand how foreign people feel when they're reading malay. it's like..you see letters, but they make no sense....
words like.
rhiwalys,
or
yt mawar..
there was this really unpronoucable word...saw it at a volvo shop..
llopwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantsygoch
i'm serious..i'm not making this up. that's really a word..
kinda wondered why there were hardly any volvos on the street.
met up with one of elaine's dad's old friend from university, hugh. so we went hunting about for a typical welsh b&b place. we went to quite a few places before we finally found one which was vacant. that was after hugh's wife made some calls around. oooh....don't you just love small towns? :P
hugh brought us to this place up the mountains, it's one of those blink and you'll miss it roads.an elderly couple owned the place...and i forgot what it was called *did it even have a name?*
i shared a room with elaine.there was a common room, and books....!!!satellite tv*been ages since i watched tv*, and dvds!!! a lovely little garden outside with a bench to just sit and stare at the view....
so for dinner had a beef lasagna. huhu my first 'real' meal in ages...strangely it felt like i had a host family. Had dinner with hugh and his family. course the 'kids' had to sit on another table. ended up chilling with laura and kim. kim was an assistant teacher.it did feel kinda awkward at first...but then it did feel great to be talking to someone who wasn't
a) a law student
b) a city person..
huhuhu...course another reason why i love the countryside....you can see the stars....
sitting on the bench, with your ipod on, all alone, staring up into the endless sky pondering over life..
it's really relaxing...nyek....it makes one wonder why one worries in the first place..
and to top of an almost perfect evening,elaine and i watched grease *one of my all time favourite musicals!!!*
the simple pleasures in life..
unfortunately i don't have pictures atm since my lap top's still out of action...
mmmm wonder if my coat's enough for me to survive in the us...ah sheet...think i've got to start shopping for thicker clothes...gah!
course if the opportunity comes along, go with the flow ^_^ so took the train with elaine and her dad to liverpool for a night.
DId i mention...trains.are.so.freaking.expensive.
even with a young person's railcard, which cost me 20 freaking pounds to get,it costs like...£31 for a one way ticket to liverpool!!! gah....i almost had a freaking hard attack,my budget alone for the whole trip was 50 pounds.
anyways, liverpool was this small half countryside half city place.apparently it's really famous for its pubs and docklands...i didn't really have the time to explore the place since we had to get to bangor,wales early the next morning.
liverpool didn't really leave much of an impression...
but the nezt day....
that's when it all started..
bangor, wales is a really ulu place in the middle of nowhere..not really the middle of nowhere, since that's where the university of wales is, but we had to take 3 trains to get there. after every stop, we had to wait for like a half hour..in the freezing cold.*since london is the warmest place in the uk, every place to me in freezing cold*
i think we reached wales at the third stop..
you know you're near wales when :
signs and everything are written in welsh and english...
the most i can remember is
araf=slow
you see more sheep everywhere..
the country side looks more wild and untamed..
and then we finally reached bangor...and it was..so amazingly awesome. think pride and prejudice...
i could even see snow at the peak of the mountain tops. which didnt' really elict awe...mostly panic since i kinda assumed it'd be so.freaking.cold.
but welsh 's so fascinating. it's such a mish mash of letters.I finally understand how foreign people feel when they're reading malay. it's like..you see letters, but they make no sense....
words like.
rhiwalys,
or
yt mawar..
there was this really unpronoucable word...saw it at a volvo shop..
llopwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantsygoch
i'm serious..i'm not making this up. that's really a word..
kinda wondered why there were hardly any volvos on the street.
met up with one of elaine's dad's old friend from university, hugh. so we went hunting about for a typical welsh b&b place. we went to quite a few places before we finally found one which was vacant. that was after hugh's wife made some calls around. oooh....don't you just love small towns? :P
hugh brought us to this place up the mountains, it's one of those blink and you'll miss it roads.an elderly couple owned the place...and i forgot what it was called *did it even have a name?*
i shared a room with elaine.there was a common room, and books....!!!satellite tv*been ages since i watched tv*, and dvds!!! a lovely little garden outside with a bench to just sit and stare at the view....
so for dinner had a beef lasagna. huhu my first 'real' meal in ages...strangely it felt like i had a host family. Had dinner with hugh and his family. course the 'kids' had to sit on another table. ended up chilling with laura and kim. kim was an assistant teacher.it did feel kinda awkward at first...but then it did feel great to be talking to someone who wasn't
a) a law student
b) a city person..
huhuhu...course another reason why i love the countryside....you can see the stars....
sitting on the bench, with your ipod on, all alone, staring up into the endless sky pondering over life..
it's really relaxing...nyek....it makes one wonder why one worries in the first place..
and to top of an almost perfect evening,elaine and i watched grease *one of my all time favourite musicals!!!*
the simple pleasures in life..
unfortunately i don't have pictures atm since my lap top's still out of action...
mmmm wonder if my coat's enough for me to survive in the us...ah sheet...think i've got to start shopping for thicker clothes...gah!
# posted by Addie @ 8:09 AM 
