Waking Up In Wales: Caerphilly Castle

Since I won't let a little snow stop my castle exploration, I dragged Ben out of our warm flat and up to Caerphilly to see Caerphilly Castle, a very large and old castle.

As you can see, the snow was still everywhere!

Despite my Ugg knock off boots, I was slip sliding all around on the ice, desperately clinging to Ben as he laughed at the silly Floridian ;)

But it was all worth it for this outside shot of the castle:

Isn't that just beautiful? Well, that's coming from a castle crazy history buff ;)

We made out way up the snowy drawbridge to the castle entrance:

here's the persecution of Ben:

Here is a view of the moat surrounding the castle:

People were feeding the ducks who would swoop down to land in the moat only to find out it was completely frozen! Poor ducks!

The interior of the castle was quite stunning in that it resembled the relics of a once grand castle, you could imagine how imposing a building it once was:

We had a great time exploring the inside of the castle:

and admiring the beautiful views from on top of and outside of the castle:

then we got to Ben's favorite part of any castle we've ever been to.............the weapons!

Here's Ben trying out the giant crossbow:

after a long, cold day of castle exploration, we popped into a local pub and relaxed till our train came in:

Before we left Ben paid homage to local legend, Tommy Cooper, apparently a famous comedian/magician born in Caerphilly. Here is his statue in the middle of town: