Wales and England

After leaving the beautiful Scotland we decided to adjust our schedule slightly and instead of breaking the journey between Scotland and Wales with a night in Liverpool we decided to have a bit longer day on the train and go straight from Glasgow to Cardiff - a slightly more epic journey, but quite manageable really.

Wales
Cardiff

It was Rob's idea to visit Cardiff really - it is the location where most of Dr Who is filmed and boasts several landmarks that can be seen in the series and in the spin-off, Torchwood. It also houses the Dr Who exhibition - a collection of props, costumes, and memorabilia used in the filming of the show.

Dont Blink - whatever you do don't blink!!

Oh no! You blinked!

Cardiff is also an interesting city in its own right, though. A rather impressive castle sits in the middle of the town - you just round the corner from the mall expecting to see more shops and are quite taken aback by a very large castle just sitting there staring at you.

It also has quite a nice dock land area - but it is no where near as pretty or full of character as the Hobart water front.

The other surprising thing about cardiff is that half the people seem to be willing to bend over backwards to help you and are extremely friendly and the other half seem to be quite aggressive and violent towards each other (but not towards us, thankfully).

Oh, and, of course, I should mention Welsh. Welsh is a fascinating language - although we didn't hear it spoken anywhere it is obviously still very much in use as it is on all the signs around Cardiff along with the English translation. Welsh is an interesting language because they seem to have somewhat of an aversion to vowels, and always use a double 'f'.


England
Salisbury

Salisbury (pronounced Souls-bree - rather strange, but remember these are the people that assure us that Thames should be pronounced as Tems) is a beautiful English village - I absolutely adored it.

The talest spire in the UK - the 4th tallest in the world.

But that's not the reason we visited Salisbury - this is


After spending the morning at Stonehenge we took the train for the hop, skip, and a jump over to London where we spent the night (and where we are currently) to be closer to the airport as another snow storm is forecast and we didn't want to get stranded in England even if Australia seems to be a bit of a mess at the moment.

We will head off to the airport soon so we should hopefully be home in a couple of days.