January 11, 2007

•   Just got back from our “Winter Warmer” break at Bodelwyddan Castle in Wales. This is a mock Castle built by a wealthy Victorian family which contains the official North Wales Museum  and is run by Warners as a luxury adults-only  holiday complex. 

  The family also erected a church a few hundred yards away across the main road know as the Marble Church because of  its varied types of internal marble pillars.

  The churchyard contains many graves of Canadian airmen killed during the Second World War. The amazing thing is that this ornately carved church was “thrown up” by a Victorian building contractor from London in just a couple of years.

  We spent our time walking, playing table tennis, pool, dancing, playing cards, being entertained in the evening and partaking of the free booze (all drinks including coffee and wines and spirits were free!).

  This break was just what we needed after the Christmas festivities; time to indulge ourselves and no Grandkids, bless ‘em !

  Pics below show Madge all wrapped up against the cold outside  the castle building, the exterior of the Marble Church, the tops of the intricately carved choir stalls (how did a 19th century building contractor build an ornately carved stone church filled with this kind of stuff in just two years ?), and our lovely Geordie waiter Neil with Madge at our table. 

   

  

  

  

  

   

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