Music heals :)

I feel like listening to this music a lot today and also would like to share it in my blog. I don't know since when I noticed and liked this song but whenever I heard it, I admired and adored it by heart. I particularly remember listening it in the Korean movie 'The Classics' and last year in the Cathedral Cave in Wales. Enjoy listening to it.

Pachelbel's Canon D

Wales visit Part II

Hello everybody,

My apologies for keeping you waiting this long to write the remaining part of the Wales visit. Well to be honest after we climbed Mount Snowdon, I thought there was not much thing left to do. But my friend had some other ideas in her mind. What a sweet friend of mine. After returning from our 4.10 minutes up and downhill and those winding narrow country roads we came home and had a lovely pasta made by my dear friend. We all fell asleep in couch watching TV. The whole day it was raining but as soon as we climbed down and reach home it stopped raining. 

Day 4: 

All of us woke up a bit late than usual. Our whole body was aching and we all had difficulty walking the same way as we did before. To our amazement weather was amazing, bright and sunny, no sign of rain at all. We headed to even furthur up towards Conwy Castle. It's a castle built in Conwy village. On the way there, I saw many small towns and the roads were so lovely. For one instant I felt like I was in some Hollywood movie and travelling along Texas, hahaha. Nearly 2 hours drive we reached our destination. That place was lovely, we went into the castle and here and there. Later on we took the last boat-trip to look precisely around that area. Most of the time I am not scared of water but that time I was a bit shaky, "Why?" because it was a flowing river which meets sea nearby. 'Estuary' or something its called. The boat was now near the point where I had extreme fear, it was trying to turn around when I saw waves forming. The waves were getting bigger and now the boat is trying to go in the opposite direction of river. Soon the boat turned around and headed towards the shore, ahh what a relief; don't laugh at me for saying this I actually had a quick nap of 7 or 8 minutes while it got to the shore haha. 

We filled our empty stomach with variety of junk food of KFC and McD and headed towards home. We came to one point where we suddenly decided to go to Mount Snowdon again, to go to the summit by train. But sadly the train was already closed for that day. 

Day 5:

The day was again bright and lots of sunshine. We already had a pre-plan to go shopping. Girls love shopping haha. It was a Britain's biggest outlet. We spent whole day browsing around the designer labels shops around there. Finally after 8 pm we decided to leave and return to our cottage. Well, without satnav we kind of got lost in those roads for sometime. As it got darker the roads became more scarier, I actually didn't like it. My friend who was driving said she felt like "playing video game", nice explanation. It was almost 11pm when we got back to our comfortable cottage. Funny thing is we all had some kind of fear in that cottage; not to mention that "Every house in UK has people buried or died during World War times". It's a saying and might be true to some extent. I had the lovely room in the attic and I couldn't go up if there are no lights, simply because of some non-sense thing in my mind. Still the body was aching and by now our heart was aching as well to spend all those money in shopping but I got what I wanted for sometime now, a pair of original Levi's jeans hahaha.

Day 6:

What a day to start with, sunny , bright and warm all day long was the weather forecast. We again headed back to South Wales to the Dinosaur Park, Brecon Beacon which we didn't completely enjoyed on our day 2 visit. This time we bought the tickets and went in there. I saw many dinosaurs of many types, sizes and colours. There were 3 caves of Dan-yr-Ogof to visit as well. First we went into a cave, we saw many limestone formed since ages ago well preserved. I used to watch this TV program in Nepal TV long time ago about exploring through caves. It helped me quite a lot, atleast I have knowledge of those limestones and other things there. We could hear the sound of waterfall inside the cave. It was a bit cold in there.

Then we went into another cave called Cathedral Cave, a bit bigger in size. I heard Beethoven's (i think so) music when we entered the cave (again this was world famous music I used to hear in Nepal TV as well in World music heritage Album). It was nice going through again many limestones and well preserved things. The music there made me really feel nice. Towards the end of the cave was a two waterfalls and it was so lovely. We had to pass the passage from there to go to the other end. The sound of the waterfall was amazing as well, then there I saw a small place. It was a place for people to get married, a mini cathedral where people actually get married. Awww it was awsome, I felt like if I had somebody I liked I would have married him there and then. Not a joke hahaha. To go to the third cave we had to put on helmets. When we finally went in there it was not big but they say there are real bones of 44 or something number of people who died there. Well this was the trip over there was over. We still had some time left so I thought why not go to Swansea. It's the city where beautiful actress Catherina Zeta Jones was born. We went there and went to seashore near Mumble heads. They had the outdoor gymnasium fitted there. After roaming for an hour we headed back to cottage. We saw Lake Llyn Brainne again. It was the end of our tour there and next day we had to leave for England. So, much food was still not eaten so we tried to finish as much as we can and pilling up weight.


Finally, our holiday was over and we had to come back home, come to reality, come to the life full of demands, come to the crowds and noises. I was kind of missing my bed though. We decided that whole Saturday should not be wasted so headed to Oxford instead of coming straight to London. We did go around sightseeing through car but we didn't bother to come out. One week was just gone so quickly and we had so much fun. We have managed to drive along the roads of unknown place even without the SatNav, yyaayyy. This is first time after a long time that I was so happy even after spending money and shopping and eating more than I expected and  getting tired (real tired). I have learned that some things are better if you go and experience it yourself, that the nature is so vast and so beautiful. I would like to visit Snowdonia again if I get lucky.


Thank you for reading! 
:)
http://www.showcaves.co.uk/cathedralcave.html
http://www.cheshireoaksdesigneroutlet.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwy_Castle

Cathedral inside the Cave

Shopping yay :)

Conwy Castle

Llyn Brainne

Against all odds, Mount Snowdon 1085 m :D (Wales- Cymru)

Greetings Buddies, 

I'm back here bragging about my awsome one week trip to Snowdonia, North Wales. It's a beautiful country, reminded me of my country Nepal, the only difference is that in Nepal we don't have good transportation system like Wales. We hired a cottage and a car and set out for our journey on Saturday. The weather forecast wasn't in our favour. After collecting all our friends we headed  for our so called long awaited vacation. Besides the car that we hired had the 'lighter' part not working; that means no SatNav working. Gosh,,it was annoying cause this world is so much dependent on GPRS nowadays. So, the only thing left is to do map reading manually. On the way we saw many accidents and also one car in burning flames (only saw it in movies before). We finally got there by 8pm. The cottage was beautiful and the view of the surrounding was lovely, full of natural beauty. As soon as we got there, my mobile phone was of no use cause there was no network. The cottage was literally in between the bottom of two hills. I chose the converted attic room to share with my sister which had a big see-through glass window on the roof, yeahhh I always wish to sleep watching stars. Sadly none of the stars showed me their faces. :( BTW Strophicus I watched 'The Dreamers' movie that night.

I want to write so many things but if I do it here this blog would end up being a book. 

Day 1: Since it was raining whole day and whole night, we decided to go to nearby city Dolgellau. After getting some informations we came back and headed to nearby walking trail, Torrent Walk. It was 1 hour walk on the shore of a river, oh what a dominating sound it had. It was lovely and as well as dangerous cause we could have slipped and fallen straight into the river. I couldn't capture nice phtotos because of rain. First it was all downhill and coming back was all uphill, a good mini exercise to climb Mt. Snowdon. The River was closer and clearer on the way back, it could swallow anything I thought. We were shouting in a loud voice and screaming with hint og happiness, all soaked by that time.

Day 2: The non-stoppage rain was still blocking our way to Mt. Snowdon so we all decided to go to another national park where my friend wanted to visit desperately, Brecon Beacon National Park in South Wales. We thought weather would be little bit nicer there. It took us almost 4 hours drive along narrow roads of Wales (Cymru). When we got to the Dinasour Park in Brecon Beacon, we saw many children. Actually that place was mostly visited by children. We didn't actually go in there thinking that there is nothing exciting for adults and instead we headed to a seaside Aberystwyth. Before that we visited an old Carreg Cennen castle. Well to be honest only the remains of the castle but it was nice. One guy was selling the entry tickets in a small booth, I was surprised to see a guy sitting there in the lonely faraway castle. I flirted with him hehe and he had lovely set of teeth when he smiled. hehe. One side of the castle had normal access but the other side if the castle had heart pounding like a cliff area. On the way back, we saw a beautiful Lake Llyn Brainne.  After spending some time in the beach we came back to cottage. Tell you something, it was still raining. We had our meals and watched NCIS and some music.

Day 3: The day when we finally decided to go and climb Mount Snowdon 1085m, the highest peak of Wales, the sole reason for me and my sister to visit Snowdonia. We saw weather forecast saying it'll be better after 10am onwards so we packed our snacks, fruits, energy drink and water bottle to go to Llyanberis (the starting point of the journey). Since my brother suggested we should be careful in driving around the roads there, I was more cautious and was telling my friend as well who was driving. My other friend suggested that we should go up from little bit moderate way and come down through the easy way. I found the idea quite promising. We bought a map and you know what we took a 'SHERPA' bus ride to another place called Pen Y Pass, another starting point.  By the time we started our journey it was already 10am but the rain was not stopping at all, infact it started raining even heavier. I set the timer and we all started walking. We saw lovely waterfalls and lakes on the way. Llyn Llydaw was one that we walked past. "Its special significance is that it is one of the most visited lakes in the United Kingdom. Thousands of people every year visit Snowdon and most walk past this lake on the Miners' Track." I also threw a coin and made a wish haha.Then came the hardest part of climb, a steep path, steps and we had walk literally through one of the waterfall. Now the path is all messed up and we had follow our own path in some places. Since there were still many people going up we didn't feel deserted though. I was walking behind my friends to accompany my sister. Now let me explain the main part of this outrageous climbing fever, at one point I felt like I might not make it to the summit. I don't know why I looked down from that point, all I can see was rocks and nothing else. We hear all these accidents about there in news. I was on my four foot ( crawling); I remembered my family and mom's face; she would kill me if she finds out that I took such a risk and involved my sister as well. The thing that was making it worse was weather, our hands and whole body was numb. To tell you the truth, we were all soaked despite wearing raincoats and proper boots. Somehow we got up from there and then came more and more difficult ways. There was one wooden tree with no branches or leaves and the climbers had left coins all over it. Me and my sister also left a coin. Finally we were there on the top. We made it against all odds; all I had in mind was Phill Collins song 'Against all odds'. As soon as we got there , it was raining even heavier and the wind was more powerful. We tried to read the map but it was all soaked up in water. I actually saw how winds blows in the higher places, from down to up. It was fierce enough to blow us back to the same place where we started. I was wearing 'I Love Nepal' t-shirt to mark my country's name on the summit but couldn't do it simply because we couldn't take any photographs. My wish was to post a photo in Facebook with 'I Love Nepal' t-shirt on the summit and tweet in twitter about how exciting it was, but sadly I'll have to do it next time. After having the moment of truth and realising the end of uphill journey, we started climbing down. Since it was the easy route we had no difficulty but it was the longest route of 4.7 miles. We could have easily taken the train and got up there but the adventure wouldn't have been that much. As we got nearer the starting point which is Llyanberis it stopped raining. Arrgghh. We had some hot food and I had to drive back to cottage. We took the longer way with bigger roads touching another coast of Wales, Porthmadog. Everyone was so tired and fell asleep in couch easily. We were still happy that we made it without any injuries and sickness later on. The timer said 4 hours and 10 minutes to complete the whole journey. I was very happy to achieve such pleasure of climbing Mt Snowdon that I could brag about in future hehe. The only hill I climbed was back in Nepal, it's called Nagarjun Hill in Kathamndu of 2128 meters. It took me, my sister and her friends 2.30 hours to reach the top and I still remember the satisfaction I had felt that time. Next time I went was in taxi with family. The main thing is all 5 of us proved that we are 'Proud daughters of Nepal', we can climb hills even without having enough practice. We all had past experience of going to village and climbing hills and crossing rivers. To be fairly honest, this was one of my dream I dreamt last year. FULFILLED. 




I realised that not everything is captured by camera or video camcorder, few things are better if you see it yourself and explore through it. The deep blue color of the lake, the dark and hard stone of the hill, the cold and fresh water of the waterfall, the green grasses of the hills, the trees, etc everything was so amazing. I can only explain it in words but couldn't relate in pictures. We saw more sheep and lambs in North Wales than human being. I wondered who do they meet, fall in love and get married to in such a population. Towns are small and houses are far from each other. Anyways we human beings can survive anywhere and everywhere.

I will continue this in next blog cause its getting longer and longer. Still got Day 4, 5 and 6 left to explain. Till then bye bye, tata, see you, adios, sayonara, astala vista, Feri bhetaula, khudahafis, phir milenge, and so on hahhahaha.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons
http://www.enchantedtowy.co.uk/llyn_brianne_and_the_upper_towy.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Llydaw

http://skylinetreks.com/nagarjun-hill-hiking.php (Kathamndu, Nepal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carreg_Cennen_Castle

some lake

small but fierce river

mini waterfall

proud of myself :D

celebrating with wine