I’ve wanted to stay in a castle since we moved to the UK.

You see, I come from a country less 165 years old… needless to say that means there is a sever shortage of castles

On Tuesday, I arrived home and mentioned I needed to go to Wales on Friday

So, my lovely S1, organised this treat.

She turned that into a weekend away.

550 miles and 14 hours of driving later, and I can finally say we have seen a fair bit of the Welsh countryside (a bit taste of it to know where to go back to).

But more importantly, I can tick ‘stay in a castle’ off the list.

It was spectacular. Right beside the rather curious [url=http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=portmeirion&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=652]Portmeirion[/url]