Saturday, October 07, 2006

So here are some more Cardiff Pictures.
These are from the Museum of Welsh Life. aka the Best place in the World!!!

Isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen? The houses are real. They were all actually built in the period of time they look like, or older and are furnished appropriated with really furniture. And the smoke it real too, all the houses had wood burning fire places with fires in them.
well, i guess you've got to look at this one sideways, but it is a tower from St. Albans castle threw the gate of the rose garden. The rose garden is on the other side of the gate.

I went to Stratford upon Avon today. Shakeapeare's hometown. Everything, absolutely everything tries to associate itself with shakespeare, but he's not the only good international success that came out of Startford, so did the teletubbies. I guess Billy beats the teletubbies in most peoples' books. Anyway, here are pictures.

so this is suppose to be the house of Billy's birth. He's said to have been born in the room of the window on the left. They've believed this for 400 years. However, if you look at when Billy's dad bought the parts of the house, Billy was more likely to have been born in the bit on the right, in a room actually out of picture.

these are a bunch of really cute buildings, which are original and annoying people, who would not get out of my picture - because they were there first and trying to save old greyhounds, but that's neither here nor there (actually it was there). SOOOOOOOOOOO the school little Billy went to is just up the street and the building in the middle is now a pub where 3 little dramatic writers grabbed a pint before catching the train to London. Flowers brewery is a local Stratford brewery and their beer tasted soapy, but that might have been because there could have been soap in my glass. I should have asked. But the inside is completely original and that was the really exciting part. it was soooo cute.

i have a feeling that the pink wall is not neccessary original in color. And all the other wooden beams were so old and amazing.

And poor dead Billy's cursed grave. The curse is actually carved into the stone, but the lettering goes the other way, so they've reproduced it the right way around. The flowers are real.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

LOVE YOUR PICTURES. a FAMILY IN CANADA