Had a great day yesterday doing some geocaching with Will, Sarah and Llion. One of the containers was the shape of a skull as shown in picture. Its great when people do these little unexpected things to make the whole experience more fun.
The Sunshine over here has been unbroken for a day now which I'm sure is some kind of record for August. Recently at least. It was a warm clear day and perfect for walking through the woods above Abergele as you'd catch some sun and then shade all the way through the paths that wend there way around Gwrych castle. There were more tourist around but that's what happens on a bank holiday. Whoever is in charge of the castle had put more walls and metal hatches up barring access to certain places I could walk freely in last time I was there. Its a sobering reminder that it is kind of trespass.
What's fasincatating about the site is that as it's not an authentic castle (Only a couple of hundred years old) it's not owned by Cadw/English heritage so its been sort of left to decay and now looks more authentically broken down than some of the actual castles around here!
I'm off to Conwy today for lunch and they have a magnificent castle there that has been superbly kept and maintained as a ruin but it feels much more sterile than the broken down ramshackle look of Gwyrch. At Gwyrch you feel like there are still tales and stories seeping out of the stones. In Conwy the paths are so well trodden you feel like everything has already been discovered and the castle is just a shell.
Or maybe its just me!
So we geocached all around that area which was great fun. We went from the hills down the the beach which made the walk back to the car a bit longer than we'd have liked I think!
Not much else has been going on. I got a double distinction for my two part payroll course, which was nice. Going on to do the advanced stage this year which starts in two weeks, it'll probably be a bit more challenging than this year but it'll be a great thing to pop on the CV.
Right off to visit my old workmates in Conwy. They say you can never go back, but maybe you can, as long as you're bringing chocolates.
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