An early start today as we were heading off to Wales. It was so hectic before we left as we had to organise a taxi to Euston station and there were six of use running around trying to make sure we had everything, locking the house up, plus it was raining, trying to fit all the luggage in the back of the taxi plus a wheelchair was a tight squeeze but we managed.

We arrived at Euston station which was about 40 mins by taxi, and 40 pounds which in our terms is about $100 dollars. It’s very hard not to convert everything in your head and think it’s highway robbery but that’s the cost of living here plus wages are a lot higher I think.
There was a problem with the booking as Linda had booked mum’s, mine and Braedon which was fine, however the booking for Linda , Roy and Nan did not register on the machine so we needed to go to the booking office to see what had happened. It was not registered at all on their system so they needed to book tickets and pay the fares again. Linda was given a number to ring to check why the booking had not gone through.
Anyway we finally got on the train which was quite full. It pulled out on time and went quite fast compared to trains at home. We were going to change trains at Wolverhampten , however when we arrived we were told that the train to Aber was cancelled and we had to catch a train to Shrewsbury for a connection to Aber. Well we caught this train OK, however when we got to Shrewsbury we were told there was not train but a bus. Now the bus was full so we were given a taxi (minibus) to travel on the rest of the way. No cost!. The only thing was that it was freezing cold in the cab, and we were very squashed. It got dark very quickly and it was raining so we didn’t really see much on the way..... Braedon fell asleep on the way. All up took us seven and half hours instead of the normal five.

We arrived at our Hotel the “Marine Hotel” got settled in our room which looks right out over the ocean, the ocean is very rough and we can hear the waves crashing on the beach. Next on the agenda was dinner and we thought would go down to the restaurant to get some dinner as we all starving. We no sooner sat down to look at the menus and the fire alarm went off.... We had to evacuate the building out onto the front area of the hotel – right opposite the sea and it was freezing cold and very windy.

After 10 mins we were given the all clear to go back into to the hotel and the restaurant. We sat down again and ordered our meal. Braedon was starving and tucked into sausage and chips.

So that was our day today. ...