World travelers and maybe possible archers






All of the castles we have see over here in Europe have the little windows with a little seat and long narrow opening. the surround the outter part of each castle. They are archer windows. Soliders used to shoot thier bows and arrows at times of war or any time the fortress or castle needed to be defended.


My kids always want to look throught these windows and see how far they can see. Isaac says he wishes he lived back in the old time and maybe he could have been a knight or maybe an archer. Kaleb would rather be the King and have servents. Sophia....well wether in old time present or in the future she was is and will be the Princess!

Clearwell Caves, Clearwell, Wales

























On day three on our Summer trip we traveled back over the bridge to Southern Wales to Clearwell to


the Clearwell caves and mines. We had fun going down into the earth and seeing how they cleared away earth to make tunnels. We got to see really old toold, and old first aide station, dugg out holes the miners used to take their breaks in, and little undergroung ponds that have formed. We saw old track that they used to transpot the raok and dibrie otu of the caves. Kaleb even got to take a try and an old hancranked cart. The kids and dads had fun hiding in little coves and jumping out to scary everyone...especiall mom and sophia because we screamed the loudest.

Castel Coch

Castel Coch was our next stop on our family Vacation.....no i did not mispell Castel...that is how you spell the name of this castle. Any way this castel was build in to the mountain side. It is know to be a fairytale castel. The same family that owned Cardiff Castle owned Castel Coch. It was a holiday home....it is only a thiry minute drive from Cardiff Castle. I guess that would be a long travle if by foot or even horse.


There where many rooms and you could walk freely around the whole castle and grounds






Before even entering the Castel we had to walk across a long actual drawbridge.
The moat below was dry and full of green gras and flowers but the keepers
said come winter the moat will fill up
a bit.

Cardiff Wales

So for our family summer trip we went to southwest England and Southern Wales. We traveled with another family and stayed at an Army Base. One of our first stops was in Cardiff Wales. We went to see one of the largest well kept castles in Wales. The kids had fun running around the grounds. We packed our lunches and ate on the beautiful green grass.
And of course we took tons of photos.
The one below of our little Liam is of him sitting in an archers
window. It is where the would shoot their bows and arrows
at intruders. Isaac and Kaleb both love Dragons.
The red dragon of Wales is everywhere. We bought an
actual stature of the Wales Red Dragon.