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[cornerofmadness]

Archeotours is willing to take me everywhere I want to go. Any of my UK crew ever heard of them and is 60 pounds about right for hotels in Wales? I can either pay 150 pounds/day (the guide, the petrol and lunch) and pay the hotels myself or pay 230 pounds/day for everything. I should be able to see south Wales along with the north and Anglesey. I need to figure out how much it would cost me over all. Then how much it would cost for a rail pass to London.

It cooled down again. YAY. Yesterday it was 80, Soul wouldn't come out from under the futon. Today it's in the 60's and he's out and playing. Go figure.

I went into the office today to talk to a book publisher (who was uninterested in me trying to order for my class apparently) and ran into the daughter of the man who owned that nice doublewide (He passed in April and his wife is selling it). Turns out she would be my next door neighbor (She's my dean's secretary) which would be nice and turns out I know other people on that street too. However, she agrees that as a double wide it's coming close to its life span (they do unfortunately start having issues within 20 years). She's rather appalled at the 85K price tag (she doesn't think it's worth that much)

ELD wanted to see the yellow house right next door to my building at work. The lady who owns it is old. Secretary thinks i'd have to fight the school for this house. Now might be the time to buddy up to her. Love your house? Hey, I'm a professor here, want to rent me the top floor and I'll help you around the house



This is the neighbor to one side, the campus police station

The side front yard

front view, yes it's old and needs a little work but they take good care of it (well now she does. I haven't seen him in at least a year)

Side yard. i'm sitting in the drive to my building at work as i take this. (I would have so far to go to get to my lab...)

three back yard views (You can almost see the shed up next to the house)







ETA -

17116 / 50000 words. 34% done! for camp nano. Wow, I'm surprised.

Comments

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

They won't necessarily be terrible hotels! Prices in rural Wales are likely to be more reasonable, and if you're staying in bed and breakfast places prices might be lower. If you want to check out the places you'll be staying, you can always get a list of names and go on Tripadvisor.

Welsh people in my experience are pretty proud of and protective of their language and culture (more so because England tried to quash it for a long time). So I'm surprised that this stuff is undervalued. It may be that there's a shortage of funds for upkeep, or that as with England there are an awful lot of ancient sites everywhere and so a lot of the more obscure barrows, standing stones, etc. just tend to sit there quietly, and will be more known to local people and visiting pagans.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they wil be B&B's and she might be able to get them even cheaper (and I'm sure travel agents get things at prices we can't).

I'll be honest, I am too. My whole fellowship is predicated on the idea of their proud cultural history. But nearly all the tours to the standing stones out of Wales (at least from my research) are into England but then again Stonehedge is magnificant and there aren't as flashy of ones in Wales.

Also from what I'm seeing is that through the centuries, they were dismantled and turned into walls, churchs or just got the hell out of the farmer's field. Much the same here with the Indigenous Moundbuilders.

If I had been truly smart, I would have said Hey I want to go see Welsh Castles...