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| An absolute nightmare to get off the baking tray, but when else do YOU get to eat the DRAGON? |
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Bringing a bit of Wales to my New York Christmas
Andy in Wales!
This Thanksgiving, Andy booked a flight to finally come visit me in Wales... between his amazing long-awaited business trip to Brazil and the last-minute business trip to Japan (he's flying back as I type), he spent over a week traipsing about the southern Welsh coast in the wind and the wet, puttering about Cardiff while I spent a few token hours at work, and helping pull off one of the most ridiculous Thanksgiving feasts I could dream up.
Here are two albums from his visit. First up, a documentation of our day trips to see castles and coastline cliffs. For one day (and one day only) we had epic British weather. The blue skies smiled on our visit to Caerphilly Castle, which sits a 20 minute drive north of Cardiff but that I had yet to go see. Sometimes it takes a special visitor to get you out there! The rest of the week was less weather-friendly, as Wales and England were hit with record rainfall and flooding along with gale force winds. We still managed to stop by Tintern Abbey (a family favorite, it would seem, and featuring earlier on my blog) and Raglan Castle, which was possibly even more awesome for the fear of seriously being blown off the crumbling turrets. Finally, we dropped down to Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula to see the "Worm's Head" (Worm from the word Orm meaning Dragon... I told you we had dragons in Wales!). We couldn't cross the causeway to the Worm's head like Dave and I did on our visit with my parents because it was high tide. Instead, Andy and I went both up to the top of the nearby hill--where gorgeous views and horses made the muck and the incline worth it-- and down to the white sand beach, where reflections of clouds in the setting sunlight were surprisingly well-captured by our little point and shoot camera. Enjoy the album!
At the end of the week we hosted Thanksgiving for my Cardiff friends. Instead of a typical Turkey, I decided to attempt a multi-bird roast. In our case, a five bird roast: a partridge inside a pheasant inside a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all sewn up, covered in bacon, and roasted for many many hours. I have an album of the construction of this bizarre masterpiece, and from the merry feast that followed. Quite merry--- we went through large quantities of booze and guests left in the wee hours of the morning, leaving Andy with only two hours before he had to get picked up by a taxi on his way to the airport!
All in all, a fantastic visit. Happy (belated) Thanksgiving everyone!
Here are two albums from his visit. First up, a documentation of our day trips to see castles and coastline cliffs. For one day (and one day only) we had epic British weather. The blue skies smiled on our visit to Caerphilly Castle, which sits a 20 minute drive north of Cardiff but that I had yet to go see. Sometimes it takes a special visitor to get you out there! The rest of the week was less weather-friendly, as Wales and England were hit with record rainfall and flooding along with gale force winds. We still managed to stop by Tintern Abbey (a family favorite, it would seem, and featuring earlier on my blog) and Raglan Castle, which was possibly even more awesome for the fear of seriously being blown off the crumbling turrets. Finally, we dropped down to Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula to see the "Worm's Head" (Worm from the word Orm meaning Dragon... I told you we had dragons in Wales!). We couldn't cross the causeway to the Worm's head like Dave and I did on our visit with my parents because it was high tide. Instead, Andy and I went both up to the top of the nearby hill--where gorgeous views and horses made the muck and the incline worth it-- and down to the white sand beach, where reflections of clouds in the setting sunlight were surprisingly well-captured by our little point and shoot camera. Enjoy the album!
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| Andy's walks in Wales |
At the end of the week we hosted Thanksgiving for my Cardiff friends. Instead of a typical Turkey, I decided to attempt a multi-bird roast. In our case, a five bird roast: a partridge inside a pheasant inside a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all sewn up, covered in bacon, and roasted for many many hours. I have an album of the construction of this bizarre masterpiece, and from the merry feast that followed. Quite merry--- we went through large quantities of booze and guests left in the wee hours of the morning, leaving Andy with only two hours before he had to get picked up by a taxi on his way to the airport!
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| Thanksgiving Cardiff 2012 |
All in all, a fantastic visit. Happy (belated) Thanksgiving everyone!
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