Wales was beautiful.  I had no idea.

We went up to Swansea on Sunday morning since Jocko had the day off on Monday, and Gemma and Liam had invited us down for a couple of days.  Gemma was our official tour guide of Swansea. Spent the day walking around the beach, stopping multiple times to feed the boyfriends, and around the narrow streets.  I actually think that the town of Mumbles might have a step up on the Hollywood Hills.  It’s twisty and turny with large beautiful houses (plus a few castles here and there) and a gorgeous view of the sea but minus the pollution and mean big headed people and it’s where Catherine Zeta Jones is from (thanks Gem for the insider info!).

For lunch, we went to the King Arthur Inn and had a traditional Sunday roast by the sword in the stone and the round table.  Yes, apparently, King Arthur was indeed originally from Wales.  Another new tidbit from the wealth of knowledge of our tour guide.  The sun was shining, but ended up being too cold to sit outside.  The lambs that Jock and Liam had for lunch were probably grateful that they didn’t have to bare another cold dreary day munching grass.

That night we stayed up until about 5AM just playing drinking games and debating our different languages of love. I didn’t know I still had it in me to stay up that late!  Although, to be fair, we have been going out quite a bit despite my last entry of claiming to be an old woman.  Maybe I’m an old woman during the day with my writing, blogging, housework, and gardening and a dynamic traveling Bristolian socialite by night!

The next day we had an amazing breakfast at The Junction Cafe and then headed down the street to the famous Joe’s Ice Cream Parlour.  It was probably the second best ice cream I have ever had right next to Mashti Malone’s in Los Angeles where Jock and I seriously went about twice a week to get their peanut butter chunk ice cream cone and gained five hundred pounds.  I do recommend the Ice Cream for anyone taking a stop to Swansea!

All in all, it was really nice to go to a beach town where we could just chill out with some friends, and smell the sweet sea air.