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Places we like
Caernarfon is one of those places which tourists visit as an excursion. They come to see the castle. Once besieged by armour-clad soldiers, it is now besieged only by day-trippers probably wearing raincoats. Emma and I remember it from our much younger days, as the focus of family or Sunday-school outings. Nowadays we visit it for the day when staying in Llandudno, a half-hour bus-ride away. It’s a bustling town with plenty of small shops and a busy market to attract Emma, and one or two quaint pubs. It would be churlish of me not to show you a picture of the castle, but we no longer pay it much attention. Castles in Wales are a constant reminder of our country’s subjugation by the English crown, and as if to rub our noses in it, the investiture of Charles - the Prince of Wales (allegedly) - took place there in 1969. Owain Glyndwr (remember him?) besieged the castle in the early 1400’s but failed to take it.
Caernarfon is one of those places which tourists visit as an excursion. They come to see the castle. Once besieged by armour-clad soldiers, it is now besieged only by day-trippers probably wearing raincoats. Emma and I remember it from our much younger days, as the focus of family or Sunday-school outings. Nowadays we visit it for the day when staying in Llandudno, a half-hour bus-ride away. It’s a bustling town with plenty of small shops and a busy market to attract Emma, and one or two quaint pubs. It would be churlish of me not to show you a picture of the castle, but we no longer pay it much attention. Castles in Wales are a constant reminder of our country’s subjugation by the English crown, and as if to rub our noses in it, the investiture of Charles - the Prince of Wales (allegedly) - took place there in 1969. Owain Glyndwr (remember him?) besieged the castle in the early 1400’s but failed to take it. 
