Blog by Tanmay
Day 1, Monday 2nd Aug 2021:
This day, we set off on our journey to Wales, a long and tiresome travel for 5 hours-especially when I'm travelsick. When we entered Wales, we could see beautiful white houses lining the streets and bright flowers in hanging baskets. In the middle of the main roads there was a massive flowerbed filled with a variety of colourful plants and baby palm trees.
When it was time to go back to our own apartments, I was excited to see the place which we were staying in as I couldn't wait to get to sleep ready for the next day. We arrived at the accomdation in the evening after we had the most delicious ice-cream at an ice-cream parlour. At the place I found out which bed was mine and sorted everything out and fell asleep unusually quick-well it was a long day :).
Day 2:
I woke up on an early start to climb Mount Snowdon and got ready as fast as I could. We climbed it with the same friend which I did all my activities with. There was a taxi that took us to the foot of the mountain and from there we followed a rocky route all the way to the top.
My dad said that it would take us 3hrs to climb up to the top but we actually took 4hrs 15mins and 4hrs to get to the bottom. And we even took the easier route on the way down! It was really hard to climb but luckily our friend had brought twelve bottles of non-fizzy energy drinks to keep us going and they boosted my energy more than any other drink that i've ever had.
getting down was the hardest though because the route was so steep we were skidding down the hill and out of control and when we passed the half-way point there was a cafe and we all had a refill and I had hot chocolate as well.
We went back to our apartment at night so no wonder I slept straight away. After all, my legs had gone numb and weren't awake anymore.
Day 3:
I woke at 8:30 and got ready to bike up a high hill. Me, my brother and my friend got our bikes first and they all had great suspension. When we got to the start of the hill it was the most steepest hill I had ever seen and when we biked up on the hill I found out that my bike pulled a lot slower than the rest so I swapped with my mum and her bike was pretty fast and it took us so long to go to the top, I lost count how long we had been there but when we went downhill it was an almost 90degree ride and if I didn't hold the breaks the whole way then I would've 100% fell of my bike.
I had a big aldrenalin rush at the bottom and had to recover for some time. That day was one to never forget because it was one of the most risky biking stunt I had ever did, I was just thankfull that we went home straight away. For dinner we had the best food ever in the Royal Oak Hotel- Y Stablu where I had a chiken burger with fries and the white vegetable dip. It was amazing!
Day 4:
I started watching the next episode of Doctor Who my mum then announced that my friend's family is coming for dinner and she prepared the best pupoo anu to eat whilst watching tv I enjoyed the programme and slept.
Day 5:
On that day we went to the ninja assault course and extreme slides where Om had 'nearly got a heart attack' on one of the slides :) I did warn him about the slides but now he will not go on any of the slides ever again.
The time was very short which they gave us because we arrived slightly late but we had a great time on the top-nets and some activities on the ninja course like beat the wall and the metal jumping pads. The best one had to be the slides because it gave me the biggest adrenaline rush I have ever had! Then, we went to the cafe and had ice-cream and I had salted caramel and bubblegum, it tasted amazing!!!
We then went to an Indian restauraunt and had mango lassi with masal dosa.
The car journey was long but I was sleeping so we were back in Reading in no time.
