Our first stop today was in the town of Glastonbury - know for the base town of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
In the town of Glastonbury we toured the demolished abbey, demolished by King George VIII when he changed the religion of the country and destroyed those cathedrals and abbeys that did not convert to his choice of religion.
From here we headed north to the town of Bath, named for the Roman baths that were built here somewhere around 70AD. Stones have been found with the computed date of 73 AD which implies that the baths had to be around shortly before that. the computed date came from so many years into the reign of a specific Roman emperor.
The same day we were in Bath there was an annual Jane Austin Birthday Celebration - a lot of people were walking around in costumes of her time period -I think it was the mid 1800's.
From here we traveled north again. We passed through a small community of about 10 homes and one gas station named Pennsylvania.
We stopped for the evening in Newport, Wales. Another day an other country.
This evening most of us went on an optional tour to Cardiff Castle - obviously a castle in the Wales capital city of Cardiff. We toured the grounds and then had a Welsh dinner in a new building within the castle grounds. There was also Welsh singing entertainment. Boy, the Welsh are good singers - maybe that is where I get my capabilities from.
Your daily report from:
The Weary Traveler and his tired traveling companions.
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