Friday, April 13, 2007

Champion Cymru!

We found a pub that serves Tui!

The 'Gors Bach' hosts a bunch of Kiwi shearers every year, and the publican is a mad keen NZ fan. He has All Blacks posters and shearer's singlets from out-of-the way spots like Akitio and Pongaroa on the walls. The beer is brewed in London and is pretty popular with the farmers that crowd in on the weekends. The photo above shows Andy Short (Akl) with a pint, the day we watched NZ beat Ireland in the cricket. (The Welsh have barely noticed there's a World Cup on)



Here's Katie doing her thing at The Anglesey Sea Zoo cafe. It's kind-of like Kelly Tarltons, only with no penguins.
Kate is working 4/5 days a week, serving it up to the retired couples and family groups that come to the Sea Zoo. British kids love crisps and slush puppies.


These shots are from a tunnel up in the slate quarry above Llanberis. We were looking for a some friends on our first climbing trip up there, and discovered the setting sun was shining right through a 25m long tunnel. It was quite eerie, so we came back the next evening and took some photos. Katie looks like an alien penguin in the next shot..



Looking through the tunnel at the sun, from the deep dark amphitheatre on the other side..



What are these?? The first person to tell us will receive a large piece of Llanberis slate via surface mail (or another more suitable prize perhaps) . Competition not open to anyone born in the UK!
Congrats to Andrew Weir for guessing they were shrews. His girls will get some Welsh Rock soon. See Comments for some funny guesses

15 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Moles or Voles

April 30, 2007  
Blogger Jamie and Katie said...

Sorry John, rumour has it you were born in Scotland!? Disqualified!

April 30, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two haggises

May 01, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WEll then i will have a go, i just looked up moles on google, and they sure do look the same, and since i am from the great NZ i cant be disqualified!! maybe its a baby mole?

May 06, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmmmm i think it is a rat! NOT.. unless its a freaky welsh rat! i going to go with mundles and say its a mole! do we get to share the prize? :)

May 07, 2007  
Blogger Jamie and Katie said...

No, sorry you are both wrong.

May 10, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

voles. dead voles.

May 11, 2007  
Blogger Jamie and Katie said...

Neither moles nor voles!
These little beasties were killed by Richard and Kez's cat. Have also been 'domesticated' at some point in the past.

May 11, 2007  
Blogger A&K Weir said...

Shrews of the family Soricidae, not to be confused with treeshrews, which belong to their own unrelated order. Only New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand do not have native shrews at all. Unlike most mammals, some species of shrew are venomous. Shrews hold nearly 10% of their mass in their brain, a relatively high brain to body mass ratio. In the English language, the word shrew is also used to describe a woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament. [Just a few interesting facts about Shrews from Wikipedia].

May 14, 2007  
Blogger Jamie and Katie said...

WINNER!
(I think you have an overly high brain to body mass ratio too, Mr Weir)
We will send you your own piece of Snowdonia soon!

May 14, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey guys, are they baby platypus? Yvonne NZ

May 26, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OOps! guess i should read the rest of the comments next time! DOH. Yvonne

May 26, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you tame them??

May 28, 2007  
Blogger Jamie and Katie said...

'The Taming of the Shrew' is a Shakespeare play? That was our cunning clue. Thanks to everyone who had a go.

May 28, 2007  
Blogger Unknown said...

I think those ones are specifically Elephant Shrew. Am I right?

November 09, 2007  

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