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On May 16th, I flew to Cardiff via Amsterdam to discuss a business plan for a possible laytime service company. On that particular day, the airports at both Cardiff and Amsterdam were closed due to volcanic ash drifting from Iceland. So,the plane was redirected to Frankfurty where KLM organized a bus to drive us to Amsterdam. By the time we got there, Cardiff had reopened, and I was able to catch the final flight to Cardiff within 30 minutes of the bus' arrival. Michele arrived on the 20th at which point we rented a car and headed off to Pembrokeshire for 4 days of hiking along the coastal trails near St Davids. After dropping the car back in Cardiff, we took the train north to Bangor where we caught the bus to Llanberis and then another bus to the Pen-Y-Gwyrd Hotel in Snowdonia within hiking distance of the summit at Snowdon, the UL's highest peak. There we enjoyed another 3 days of hiking in the craggy sheep filled hills. Weather was great and unusually warm and dry. Returned home on May 29th without incident and now busy with imposing some sense of unnatural domesticated control over the garden which has a propensity to go wild when not closely attended.
