Christmas Wales and Oxford

So as one final trip before Christine returned to America to finish her degree, she Peter and I took a trip to Wales. We celebrated Christmas in Cambridge then left the next day. The trip was full of adventure and beauty, but my favorite was spending two nights with a beautiful family in Wales who were kind enough to let us eat the traditional Boxing Day dinner with them. They lived in a secluded Welsh farmhouse with a fireplace big enough for us to walk around in. Afterwards we visited St. Davids Cathedral and drove up the Welsh coast to Snowdonia, traditional birthplace of King Arthur. On the way back to Cambridge we stopped off at Stonehenge and took the guided tour. The mist was our constant companion on our trip, and it added a layer of mystique.



We spent a couple days in Wales, a day in Bath, and on our way home stopped at Stonehenge.



Bath was beautiful. Lyndon and I had finished reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey which takes place entirely in Bath. It was fun to see where her story came to life.


Stonehenge was interesting. The day we went the whole country was covered in thick fog. When we got to Stonehenge we actually could not see it because the fog was so thick. We did not see it until we walked up right next to it. It is located in the middle of this field just off the road. There are sheep in the field too. Everyone gets an audio tour device that had some really interesting facts about Stonehenge.


Our last couple days before the new year involved packing and cleaning up our flat. We manage to have some fun as well. We stopped at Trinity square where the epic race in Charriots of Fire took place. We spent New Years Eve at our house's party. We brought in the New Year with a kiss.

2011 started out with me leaving to come back to Provo to finish school and Lyndon spending the rest of his break in Cambridge.





In order to assuage my lonliness when Christine left, I spent a couple days with Peter in London (where I watched Beaches for the first time) and a couple days with Tim. With Tim we visited many colleges and cloisters including where some of Harry Potter was filmed, although everyone knows that in order to be truly wonderful and excellent they should have filmed the movie entirely in Cambridge...

And a note of domestic concern: My father's optical recently went online. Check it out at Plothow.com

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