Aidan 18, 24 June

It has been a while since I last posted. We are in a really nice house sit. It is in Wales. Here a lot of the people speak Welsh as well as English. The road signs are in English and Welsh.  To say Hello in Welsh you can say,  shamae

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/welsh/hello3_cy.mp3

One of the places we have been is a castle. It was called Castell Caerffili.

We walked around and listened to a man telling other kids about the castle.

In castles they had toilets that were above the moats so everything would wash away.  Sometimes instead they would pour it on their enemies if they were trying to break into the castle.

The castle was really big and it had a dragon.

Our outing today was going to a coal mine where we went of a tour with a man whose name was Tony.  He took us into room. It was called the winding room

because it was where they would wind up the chain that carried up the cage that the men would go in to get down into the mine.  The mine shaft was very deep and dark.  Even kids had to go down the mines to work. When they were about 6 their job was to open and close the doors to let the trams come through with the coal.  It was very dark and they had no lights. It would have been very scary.

We also got to feel how scary explosions would be. Tony showed us how they would put dynamite into holes to keep building the mine shaft. He pushed a button then a sound came out of speakers and the ground shook a little bit.