Camilla Parker Bowles would like to have the titel of „Princess of Wales“ as the intended of Prince Charles and this, even nobody of the house of Buckingham has an estate in Wales. The Welsh are horrified!
This is the headline of today’s papers. We pass the Severn Road Bridge, which leads the motorway traffic in respectable height over the sea, between England and Wales. Welcome to Wales!
(see picture in German Version) Caste of Caernarfon
Wales with about 3 millions inhabitants is a very old nation and they understood it perfectly to keep their identity during the lots of changes in history. Especially in the North and West about 75 % of the population still speak apart from English the old Celtic language: cymreag. For us most of the words are tongue-twister. All signs in public and all traffic signs are bilingual.
Caste of Caernarfon
Wales with about 3 millions inhabitants is a very old nation and they understood it perfectly to keep their identity during the lots of changes in history. Especially in the North and West about 75 % of the population still speak apart from English the old Celtic language: cymreag. For us most of the words are tongue-twister. All signs in public and all traffic signs are bilingual.
cymreag, an old Celtic language
After a few days of wild camping, it was time again for a shower. We drive to a campground which is part of a farm. In the time where I fix our standing location, Michaela goes to the nearby barn. After a while she comes back with a smile from one ear to the other and tells me, how she just been a witness of the birth of a newborn lamb.
…wherever you go, lambs, lambs, lambs
For dinner we do not cook and that’s for a good reason. We have Bären-Lauch (Latin name is Allium ursinum), a wild garlic marinated in olive oil. We eat it pure on bread – it is a delicacy!
The next days we want to visit all three national parks. We travel from east to west and south to north. Over night we stay either next to a beach or in the wildness of the mountain range. On a Sunday morning it happened. „The water for the tea did not want to be in the thermos jug”. For breakfast we have tea, like usual, the British way. As the water boils, Michaela want to poor it over the tea-bags in the thermos jug. But somehow it doesn’t work and the water is more on the floor then in the thermos jug. So she stops. Now it is my turn. At this moment I pick up the pot and want to poor it, the pliers of the pot fall out of my hand and the boiling water is all over Michaela’s right ankle and the toes of her left feet. She panics and screames in pain. In a kind of reflex I open the 10 l water can and poor it all over Michaela’s feet. What next? We treat the burned parts with rescue cream (Bachblüten – original flower remedies) and Michaela treats herself with Reiki. But the pain is coming back so we go to a pharmacy which sells us a First aid spray. But still the pain will not stop, so I fill a bucket with cold water in which Michaela places her feet. Immediately the pain stops. Suddenly Michaela has an idea: „people in earlier times treated burned skin with soft curd cheese“. So we will buy it. Since in Great Britain the big supermarkets are as well open on Sundays, no problem to get it. But the British do not have soft curd cheese like we know it from Germany. But Yoghurt and cream cheese will do it. We pack Michaela’s feet in tea towels filled with fine yoghurt. It is a immediate relief with the healing method “Yoghurt” even the blisters, which showed already are getting smaller. In the afternoon we repeat the treatment, this time with half of the cream cheese. The other half we have for dinner. Yummy! As then the sun comes out and we can sit in front of our bus and watching the sunset over the sea, the world is back to normal.
…the mountains of Wales
Thanks to our lot of care to the feet of Michaela the burned skin is healing quite quick. So after four days we could already do some easy hikes in the wonderful mountain range of Wales.
In our next travel journal we will tell you about Tibet in Scotland.