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Caerphilly Castle Bike Trip :)

February 18, 2012 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Bike

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very rough estimates on the time and distance.

Went on another north-of-cardiff trip with Krzysztof! It was a cold, windy, rainy, haily, miserable-weathered day, but it was awesome anyway!! This time we went to Caerphilly, a town across a line of mountains! We took a beautiful path through the countryside and across one major mountain to get there (walked the bikes up the steepest part of the mountain - this trip was NOWHERE near as miserable as our last one). Hiked to the peak of Caerphilly Mountain as we passed (GORGEOUS!!! :D ), then flew down into the town, had coffee and hot chocolate (Krzysztof managed to completely spill mine everywhere), and then went into the castle! Caerphilly Castle is the largest castle in Wales. maybe all of the UK, not sure. We explored all the little caverns and climbed around everywhere (the UK is a different culture - they don't really make an effort to close a lot of areas off from people at historical sites. the glaring exception is stonehenge). After looking around for a few hours we biked back to Cardiff, walking up the steep part of the mountain again. The weather was much ickier on the way back.

This was rather a painful trip for me. I fell down on a stone spiral staircase in the castle and tumbled down a couple stairs. I tried to catch myself with my arm and slammed my elbow into the stone wall of the chamber. It's a little cut up. Then, as we were hiking up the mountain, pushing our bikes up the street, I tried to get out of the way of a car quick and push the bike up on the curb, but the back tire didn't make it and I hit my knee pretty hard on the pedals. I was stumbling around for a bit and now it's bruised. merp. Great trip though!! :D