National Botanic Garden of Wales and Carreg Cennen Castle
The next day was just too windy too walk so I headed to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for my first visit, I was impressed by parts, especially the large single span glasshouse, filled with plants from all over the world. There were a few ideas to take away from the vegetable gardens. Somehow the gardens all looked to new and didn’t inspire me a great deal. The displays of stumps of African rainforest trees actually offended me. Whilst I could see that the message of deforestation was being portrayed, transporting such huge objects is hardly environmentally sound. The same message could have been portrayed with storm up rooted trees from nearby.
At the eastern end of the Black Mountains lies Carreg Cennen. Carreg Cennen is my favorite castle and I was really pleased to have the chance to visit it again, even in high winds. Best of all is the tunnel underneath for which I had taken a torch. No one knows what the tunnel is really for. The first part descends steps and then a slope and has windows cut into the cliff the castle sits upon. Further on it becomes a conventional tunnel, winding ever deeper beyond the castle
. At the end I turned my torch off just to experience the darkness and silence. Only drips of water could be heard. As I climbed back up the noise of the wind gradually grew and grew. After I looked in at the adjacent long house, which is older than the castle. Here next to the animals up to 18 people lived in one small room.
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