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Wet Christmas in Wales Part 1

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Hi all, I just came back from a weekend road trip to Wales. It was a 4 days 3 nights with the Snowdon gang plus another family. As my sister said, geng makcik-makcik. Since I'm currently residing in Bristol, I have to go to Coventry on Xmas Eve to meet up with the others as our journey starts from there.  Day 1 We were supposed to start our journey at 5 am as daylight was very limited during winter season and we wanted to get as much out of it as possible. However, my friend's car decided that it was too cold and want to stay in bed (read: car won't start). Luckily she has good neighbors that helped her out and managed to jump start the car with another car. At about 6.45 am we started our journey to the first pit stop of Brecon Beacon National Park. We had high hope for the day to do some walking around the national park. Sadly the weather decided to betrayed us as it rained heavily the whole day. So when we went to Breacon Beacon Information Centre to meet up...

Old Memories

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Hello all, Another update from my holiday. Though I'm in Venice right now and I've been writing since I was in Amsterdam but I still haven't finish with my story in UK. On Christmas eve, I went to the place where I've stayed for 4 years which was Swansea. It just felt so good to be back at the place where I grew up. Nothing much change except that more roads are one way and it was more packed than it was 10 years ago. I went to my old house, nothing much was different but they cut down the bush and they painted the door white. Besides that, everything else was the same. In Swansea, we went to Mumble's pier where we can see the light house. Now, we need to pay 50p if we want to go onto the pier, it used to be free. Well, things change over the years. The city was basically the same but the islamic centre at the centre is bigger. They extend it until I feel like having a treasure hunt in it. Owh how I miss the good old days in Swansea. Swansea..we're c...