Summer Joy begins!

The well-awaited summer has finally arrived. After all those cold nights and short days, the change is now so very much appreciated.
The first weekend of May is generally a long weekend in Britain, and weekend plans while the summer is on is grand!

We, Abhi, Venki, Hari, and I took off to Wales, supposedly another country. A 3-day trip it was, covering close to 450 miles. There were a few places we wanted to visit, we headed out

Destination One - Bristol, Abhi lives in Bristol, so squeezed into his apartment for the night. Friday nights aren't generally called off too quickly. Strolled the water front pub gazing!

Rose and departed early, Destination Carmarthen. A good samaritan had suggested the temple visit - Skanda Vale. It took us around 2 hours to get there, apart from which, there wasn't any road during the last bit of the drive. The temple in itself was very holy, and energetic. The rituals performed were very homely, as in resembled those as would have been done in Southern India. It was very surprising to see the Welsh/British takeupon themselves such kind of rituals, perhaps, they did find sanctity in their deeds. Extremely delicious food was served as offerings. We did a short climb to the top of the hill to another of the series of temples. The Maha Shakthi temple at the top of the hill also contained a small number of animals to enhance the place's beauty. There were a couple of peacocks, geese, and there was an elephant as well.

Before we left for our journey, I had called up a few places to enquire for accomodation. Fortunately, I happened to call this lady who said she had a two-bedder acco on the beach front. We wanted to position ourselves close to Swansea, but then this offer was very irresistable.
So, we drove ourselves to find this huge colony of new flats right in front of the beach. Destination LLanelli, (pronounced as Thla nethli). The flat was simply gorgeous, big, spacious, well furnished, and right in front of the beach. We thought no more and considered to make this holiday- Very Relaxed! To home it all, we played a lot of monopoly, and enjoyed the beach front. The beach, though, was quite weird. The water always drew back during the morning and night, but was up in front during the noons, and early mornings

The next day we did the Kidwelli castle, the castle was very nice, and not lavish, and opulent like the Windsor castle. It had resemblences to the Golconda Fort back in Hyderabad.

We left the apartment Monday morning, and headed to Caswell Bay, a much more happening beach than that we lived in front. Frisked a frisbee around for a while, rugbied a rugby ball and dared to get into the water. The water, though, was freezing. It was as if, i was forced to fold my legs when i stepped into the water. Not wanting bad cold week ahead, we kept away and shortly then headed to Mumbles for lunch. Lunch was good at CJ's, some random Italian place in Mumbles.

Drove 200 miles back after a heavy sumptous meal, and that was dangerously difficult. Nevertheless, a coffee did the trick, and we were back in Swindon after dropping Abhi back in Bristol, just in time for Venki and Hari to catch their bus to London.

Good trip it was indeed... Pics linked