*Waves Back* Hello from across the Atlantic! I got to visit Wales for the first time this past summer, taking some of my students on a trip to Ireland the UK. Didn't get through Brecon Beacons (although I have heard of it!), sadly. We came in on the ferry from Dublin, drove across the north (stopped in that amazing half-finished castle across from Snowdonia for a bit), saw the town with the longest name, and stayed overnight in a lovely inn just inside the country before the border with England. Then, I went down to Cardiff for two days after my students and fellow teachers had flown home from London. Everything I've seen in the country is gorgeous.

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