We just arrived in Wales. Its a World Heritigage site. The old part of the city is surrounded by walls. The main attraction is a castle built by King Edward the first. It only took 4 years to build.
Yesterday we were in York, which is one of the top three cities in the UK. The others are of course London & Edinburgh. York is also a walled city first built by the Romans in 7 AD. It sits between 2 rivers. There are different people who occupied the city over time, including the Romans & Normans. The original city was about 20 feet below where it is now. Over time the level rises when the river floods & the silt gets left behind. The big attraction in York is the Minister, which is a huge church.
Before York, we were in St. Andrews. It was raining on the drive into St. Andrews from Edinburgh. After we checked into the Bell Craig B&B, which was across the street from the Lorimer B&B, we walked to the Old Course, which is where golf started in teh mid 1500's. Mary Queen of Scots played here. It is the site of the British Open. We got there at about 1:00 and by 3:00 I was teeing off with a couple of other American Tourists. While it was an experience that I wanted to have, and some say if they only had one more round to play, they would play there, I wasn't that impressed. It's fairly wide open & you don't see that much of the ocean.
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