Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

So after a week long break, we were gratefully recuperated and ready to go. In the morning Karen made us some great sandwiches, and we ate contently. The plan for the day was to go from Kidderminster to Hereford, meet Sue a friend of Daniel's family, and then head off to Cardiff. Karen was kind enough to make us sandwiches for the road as well, and we were grateful. After many (heart wrenching) good byes, and a few accidental button presses, we were on our way to Hereford. The train to Hereford was uneventful and we arrived there at about 12:20.

We wandered outside the station not knowing who we were looking for, what kind of car keep an eye out for or anything. Luckily enough, Sue recognized us (Daniel's hair, and our large backpacks of course), and we were luckily found. Sue told us that it was a funny thing we were coming from Stourport, as her eldest son Shawn, was playing cricket against Stourport today. We had a chance to talk to her younger son Wayne when we arrived. We had a great time over some pictures that Daniel's mom had given to him to bring over.

Then it was time for lunch (dinner there). We had an absolutely great meal with with Sue's family. Burgers and chips, with salad. We had a great chance to learn some things about Wales as we ate, and also got to know Sue's family better. After eating we went to visit Sue's parents, and then Shawn. Finally we went to the bus station where we were planning on catching a 4:10 bus to Cardiff. Cardiff. I took the short opportunity before the bus arrived to withdraw some money for the next part of our trip.

We were able to pay a cheap fair of 7 pounds to get us all the way across the country. Of course we were in a regular public transit bus though. So our 3 hour journey would be on slightly cushioned seats, to which we thought, at least we can sit! The bus ride immediately got easier when we found out that there was wifi on the bus. It actually surprised us quite a bit because most of the coaches we had travelled in didn't have wifi. Our three hours didn't exactly fly by but we made it into Cardiff at about 7:30. From there we quickly hopped over to the subway, and were soon on our way to our hostel.

After getting off the subway after 2 short stops, we started our walk to our hostel. On the way we passed an enormous grave yard. It actually covered about half our walk to the hostel which was 30 minutes.

Graveyard Gate

We were glad to finally make it. We got all our linens and headed up to our room. All of the doors had names on them, and we couldn't exactly place where they were from, but we knew them. It was when we passed room 1 that we placed it! They were all names of the incarnations of the Doctor from Doctor Who.

The First Doctor

The 10th Doctor (don't know why its on door 8)

We had thought that a lot of the UK would be covered in Doctor Who hints and clues, but this was the first we had seen. We were glad to though.

Accordion Player!

After setting out things up we left to go and see how the city of Cardiff was on a Saturday night. We got to see for the first time, and accordion player on the streets. It was not too much of an eventful night otherwise, though me and Daniel did end up in a gay bar for a bit. We also passed by a few stag and hen parties. The most interesting? A group of men all dressed in army morph suites.

We were pretty tired from the place to place travel so we ended up asleep comfortably in our beds, excited to explore Cardiff in the light the next day.

Well to tomorrow,

- Kamaljot