Wales - Dyffrin Castle Gardens

Grand Tour - Wales - Day 758

For a few days now, the British flags have been at half-mast. The Queen is mourned. We pop in to BBC every now and then, here they broadcast live for days as the Queen's coffin from Scotland (all the aerial shots remind us of the visits to Balmoral and Edinburgh) then travels around the country.

The international media reports of a frozen, grieving British people and friends and team colleagues ask us what we are doing at the moment, as the whole of Great Britain would be at a standstill.

We are once again sadly watching what media can create. 

Nothing stands still here. One or two marathons have been cancelled. On the day of the funeral, cafés, restaurants and all public museums and castles are closed in the morning and in some places all day. We only see that the people are visibly mourning in the BBC recordings. In conversations with the people, we notice a certain sadness, but there is no sense of shock.

So we drive calmly to DyffrinWe'll see if there's anything we can look at. The gardens of Dyffrin describe themselves as "from forlorn to fabulous". And they are all that.

We take a leisurely stroll through the Castle gardensEnjoy the dreaminess of the expansive landscape. Marvel at the kitchen garden and the large greenhouse with huge cacti that want to reach for the sky. 

When we learn in the café that for hygienic reasons they only use paper cups for the cappuccino (we just don't get it!), we turn back a little disappointed and make ourselves a coffee in Felix. What a pity, otherwise I always have two of our porcelain cups in my backpack against such pollution uselessness.

But let's move on, today we still have Cardiff on our ideas board. 

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Grand Tour - Wales - Day 758

Merci for "travelling with us

We are thinking about taking another break from travelling in the summer and visiting our families in Germany and Switzerland. One of the ideas is to organise a Lecture about our long journey to the Persian Gulf to prepare. If you would like to, what would interest you the most? We will also tell stories here that don't find a place here on the blog. We're thinking of the Bern and Berlin area - simply because we have family there. But other places are also conceivable. Feel free to write to us.

By the way, we are travelling through Iran. It's possible that we won't be writing posts at all or will be late. We first have to see if it works for us. And whether we can even manage to write down all the fantastic impressions in good time.

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