South Wales Part 3: the Waterfall Country and the Cardiff Castle

 Our last full day in Cardiff, we could not have been luckier with the weather. My cousin in France said it was wet over there. 

As the tide was higher, first thing in the morning, we tried crabbing, though we found out it was much less common than in North Devon. We saw hardly any other crabbers. I don't know how our "Devon" bucket went down with the locals but no shop seemed to be selling buckets, so good job we brought our own. We still had some success!




We were not going to swim in the sea but I found an idea: the Waterfall country! And we were not disappointed. We were near Glynneath although I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the waterfall we saw as it had a Welsh name. Swimming there was not possible either for a different reason: there was once an iron mine making water look very brown. However, several people were having a paddle and went behind the waterfall, my daughters could not resist following them, though again, we almost avoided wet socks, until my husband managed to drop a sock before handing it back to our younger one 😖







Wales is also great for animal lovers like my younger one. Shame she could not stroke any of the lambs



For our last day, we thought the Cardiff castle might be worth a visit and it was £42 well spent, especially as my first born loves history!










Location: Wales, UK

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