Off to Wales!

Tomorrow morning, my wife and I are leaving for a  2 week holiday in Wales.  We are going to visit my family, most of whom relocated to the Isle of Anglesey from Bedfordshire, England almost 10 years ago.  Anglesey is located in northwest Wales – perhaps not the winter beach vacation of my dreams, but it will be great to see my family again.

We have also booked a canal boat for 3 nights along the Llangollen Canal, located in Shropshire, in west England, on the border with Wales.  We can’t wait!  We have vacationed on the canal before, and it really is the best way to relax and unwind.

On our 3 day journey, we’ll travel only 15 miles…(life is much slower on the canal).  And if the weather is so bad that its getting past our raingear Included with the boat rental!), we can always moor the boat, and spend the afternoon and evening in a pub alongside the canal.  Oh, how I miss English pubs…(but that’s another post…)

Llangollen canal is considered by many to be the most beautiful in Britain (or so the guide books say!)  We will be traveling over two Victoria era marvels: the Chirk and Pontcysyllte Aqueducts.  Although both are engineering masterpieces, Pontcysyllte is said to be absolutely breathtaking, as it carries the canal in an iron trough 1,000 feet across the River Dee and into Wales at a height of 120 feet.

It is my goal to post a couple of blogs with photos during our trip, but even the best laid plans go awry…we’ll have to wait and see if there’s an internet café along the canal!

Until then, I bid you hwyl fawr!

(It means “Cheerio” in Welsh, of course ;) )