05.08.2007

Because I actually went yesterday really late and pretty tired to bed, I slept long till after 10 o’clock am =)

After having a nice breakfast I quickly took my backpack and went over the nice old bridge back to Conway.
I was pretty impressed by the bridges over there - they had 3 different bridges going over the river - the first one was just for train, the second one only to walk (and costs one Pounds per day) and the third one for cars (and also people)
They build them in the style of the castle, which is located right behind the bridge :)
After I spent a bit time at the bridges I went to the castle to visit it …
- it was just amazing!!!
I have seen many beautiful castles in Austria, but none of them hade such height tower than this castle had …
This castle had about eight towers and all of them where so amazing height …
(in Austria most of the castles does just have on big tower …)
I really enjoyed it a lot !
These castle was one of few , which the king over her ordered many years ago to build, as the Norway’s were closer coming to the UK - so one they build it as a signs of power and to defined there country …
I also met an Austrian family over here and got in a dialog with them for few minutes …
- they flow just for couple of days to over here - when I heard them speaking I realised, that hey could not be from Germany - and guess, that they must come from close to Vienna … - when I asked them I found out, that I was absolutely right - they are living in Vienna ;)

Here are few nice pictures from the bridges and the really impressive castle:

After I walked a short piece on the old city walls, I soon returned to my camper van and made myself finish to leave - my next goal was a really close mountain, from which you should be able to see the next island - only if the weather is fine ;P
So on I expected that I won’t see it, because the weather over here is usually not good ;P
After I reached the feet of the mountain (see level) and stand in front of it, I decided to hike it up, to get a bit of Austrian my feeing :)
- actually I did it really extremely and so on it was more running up the hill than hiking …
A big mountain for people in the UK - but just a small hill for a guy from Austria ;P
It took me just about 12 minutes, till I reached the top …
But it was only 206 meter (679 feet) height - so one I did 2,8 height meter (9.2 height feet) each 10 seconds - I really walked the whole time on my maximum speed level ;)
- than I just kept on walking on the top, till I reached only 20 minutes after starting the final visitor point on the top …
Actually it was a bit strange - there was a cable car and a lift going onto this small hill - and on the top was a big building with a restaurant, a shop and a casino ;P
But the view was wonderful and I really enjoyed it :)

Here are few pictures:

After I returned safety to my van I quick wrote a SMS on my mobile phone to my college Trevor. He told me, that he will be pretty close to over there at his grandfather’s house on Sunday and I’m invented to make a stop over there :)
I quick got an answer and made my way to Penrhyn Bay. To drive along the coast was a real adventure - there was amazing much traffic (everybody likes to drive to the beach on weekend) and the street was really really narrow - it was on of the situations I really like to drive in, because it’s a real adventure and pretty exciting - when you just have 1 cm or less space on each side of your van =)

I actually arrived at the address, which Trevor told me, couple of minutes to early, and had to wait few minutes, till he was back with his family from the beach …
I spent about an hour over there, but decided to leave before dinner, because it was already about 5 o’clock and I had to drive the whole way back to my campsite …
Actually it was the right decision to leave a bit earlier, because I arrived way later than I expected at my home (got a bit into traffic jam) and it takes me always a while, till I’m parking perfect at my place …
So on I went after a real relaxing and enjoying day again pretty late to bed and I will tell you tomorrow, how I went up at the next morning ;P

King Regards
SEBI =)

PS: I’m not sure why, but my computer does have a small bug at the moment - while I’m typing a text, he likes to drop few signs or even whole words - that’s why it’s possible, that there are more mistakes … - I will take a look to fix that soon, because it’s really nasty!