We are, so to speak, right down the road from a really cool trackway – the fossilized footprints of a dinosaur from 200 million years ago. The trackway is in the Bendricks, “a stretch of coastline and an important paleontological site in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales located along the northern coast of… Read more A’fossiling We Will Go
Oh, woe unto me. We’ve been suffering horribly under all this bad Welsh weather we were warned about. See how awful it is? Truly, we are suffering from all these sunny days with highs in the mid 70s. How do the locals stand such an appalling climate? In order to deal with the pain, we… Read more More Wretched Welsh Weather
Time to begin exploring the history and culture of Wales! And where better to do that than the free, open-air, 40 acre walk though the Welsh past that is St. Fagan’s national history museum? It’s lush, it is! It is in a beautiful park and woodland nature paths between the buildings, which have been meticulously… Read more St. Fagan’s National Museum
Sweet Babou’s company got him a new phone here quickly, but trying to get a local phone for me has been a nightmare. You cannot get a contract without a British bank account and a passport alone is insufficient to get a bank account; you must have your visa biometric paperwork. It’s taking it them… Read more This is Cardiff
I may have unlocked a new level in melanin deprivation. I managed to get sunburned in WALES. I’m outside in a place that is 10 degrees NORTH of Moscow, Russia (I’m not making that up) and I got sunburned. Just … HOW?? Sure, we’re out on the beach and walking around every day, but the… Read more Sunburnt? HOW?!?!
Sweet Babou and I are big fans of a marvelous BBC One show called Gavin & Stacey. A main premise of the show is the heroine’s attachment to Barry Island and her Welsh friends and family. We now live about 5 minutes from Barry and Barry Island. Guess where we went as soon as… Read more Hiya Barry Island. What’s Occurring?
On 28 July we bid farewell to our nice bed and breakfast, The Manor House, and headed down the road to our new home. Here we are at our front door – yes that is a palm tree with the roses — gawking at seagulls: These seagulls, to be exact: It’s really lovely here and… Read more Home Again, Naturally
Sorry I’ve not blogged recently. Internet has been spotty and we won’t be at full capacity until next Tuesday. However, we are in Wales … and we are loving it! The people here are lush, they are. Getting here was less than fun, tho. It became a farce of shite-we-weren’t-expecting-and-things-we-expected-not-happening. Not as bad as Mark… Read more Wales, We Are In You!
Pity poor Wales, with it’s gorgeous scenery and lovely people, for the Kramers are descending upon it – a ravening horde of Americans intent on seeing every tourist attraction and site of interest contained therein. The house is not yet fully sold (although people are looking and making interested noises) but Sweet Babou’s visa is… Read more Brace Yourself Wales!
King Edward I of England, known as Edward Longshanks, died on 7 July 1307. As I have explained before, Edward’s historical legacy is complicated; he was a good man who did horrible things. Longshanks was on his way to Scotland to battle Robert the Bruce, who had recently rebelled against English rule and had declared… Read more The Death of Edward Longshanks