Note: Can enjoy better if you read Day1, Day2 and Day3 before...

Today was the last day of this trip. It had been fantastic till now and we were sure it was going to be good today too. But a fine line of grimness embraced us. Tomorrow its going to be back to work and it was like we are going to be pulled out of a fantasy land into the mundane 9 to 5 land. Today we did not have the late rising as it was me who woke up first and woke up on time (felt enough is enough.. :o)). But lady luck refused to come near us. What we saved on waking up early was made up in getting the breakfast finished. Nevertheless made it to the van on time.

Our first stop for the day was Carreg Cennen castle. As of everyday, this was the trek of the day as the castle is situated on a kind of hilltop. But the small trek up was well worth as the castle had one of the best view.Though the outer portion of the castle remain strong more or less, many of the inner portions of the castles were in ruins. The castle has a deep under ground passage leading to a cave and also has a natural spring en route.This passage gets pitch dark after few steps walking down and will require a torch (available on rent from the visitor information desk). Also walking the passage is very tricky as you risk a fall if you place your foot wrong or risk banging your head on the low roof that emerges all of a sudden. Since the passage is not man made, the floor as well as the roof are uneven.From the information plate, could make out that this castle seemed to have changed hands often.












We next went to a scenic landmark the name of which i forgot..Welsh names are very tough to remember unless you note it down which i did not in this case..Nevertheless this place was awesome. Dan told us that in the olden days, this place used to be the place where smuggled goods from America would arrive on British soil later to be sold on black market. Took some photos including the one with Dan and quickly sprinted to the van.







We then went to the Cardiff Bay, the happening place in Cardiff. The Bay hosts the National Assembly of Wales (the only traditional looking building in that area) as well as the Wales Millennium Centre. The Millennium center has a inpressive copper looking dome inscribed with the letter "In these stones, horizons sing". Rest of the outer walls of the building is clad with the tradional welsh slate. The inside of the building looks very posh and hosts theatres and musical academies. There was a live show by some artists when we were there. Looked fantastic...















As we were going towards the point of pickup.. We met the other trip mates and to make good use of the waiting time, took our final group photo (though Dan,Claire & Natalie were missing in this). Dan picked us up in few minutes from then and off we went to the Cardiff castle. Due to shortage of time, could not quite go in and explore in details. Spend some time at the castle gift shop and off we were on our way back through the motorway to London.








Got dropped off promptly at Earls court Station and that marked the end of this trip.

The time has come to say good bye.. we had real good fun... As a matter of fact, the trip was like visiting your friend for a weekend and hanging around with them. Dan and Calire will remain our very good friends...

Took the picadilly service back to Hounslow West and and once back at Hounslow had dinner at Kharahi Palace, a popular indian restaurant near the station.

The weather had been very good to us. All the four days had been nice and sunny but for the fact that i came back with a bit of tan (i am told so..)

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