mike at Amelia trust farm (our chosen charity for the mike festival were having
over here)
http://www.ameliatrust.org.uk/

the entrance to st Fagan’s welsh folk museum

 a school from 1880 Wales at the welsh folk museum

mike go’s to school old style

a typical street from the 50’s 60’s in Wales

history of cockfight pit from around the 1750’s at the welsh folk museum

the cockpit
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/

mike at ninian park home of Cardiff city fc (bluebirds) the only welsh team to win
the FA cup

mike with Bartley blue Cardiff city’s mascot
 

day 1 was in Taffs well in wales
day 2 he went to salcombe yaught club Devon England
day 3 still in Devon but went to visit the lifeboat team and war memorials

More in a day or two

Rumors have it that he’s off to Paris on Monday on his return its Scotland

On the weekend we will be taking him down to the farm (the chosen charity to benefit from Mike’s Festival in Wales).
http://www.ameliatrust.org.uk/

Hopefully to Castell Coch and Cardiff and Caerphilly Castle’s.

http://images.google.co.uk/

http://www.castlewales.com/cardiff.html

http://www.castlewales.com/caerphil.html

We are still seeking permission to get inside the Millenium Stadium (home to Welsh Rugby and host to so much more).

I may have to book a stadium tour.
http://www.millenniumstadium.com/301_300.php

 

The last day in Jerusalem and we’re at the Jaffe Gate or the western entrance to the old city of Jerusalem.  Sure wish someone would stuff one of those loafs of bread down my gullett…Mike has had a hard journey but still ready to start again after the first of the year with new traveling companions.

 

Well here we are in Jerusalem viewing the walls around the old city of Jerusalem.  This is the last stage in Mike trip having been in Egypt, Jordan and now Israel.  Just think these walls are 2000 years old plus or minus.

 

We’re again in the last week of our journey to the middle east.  We’re in the beautiful city of Haifa, Israel looking toward the Haifa Bay one of the busiest ports of Israel.  Up on the hill side, Mike is taking a long look at the three mile setting for the center of the Baha’i faith.  Midway down the hill is the temple of Baha’i Shrine of the Bab.  This is a growing religion founded in the mid-1800’s and has over five million followers.

 

Here we are after a hard days tour of Petra in the southern part of Jordan.  Mike had a hard day as he hiked about five miles though the canyon of the cresent moon and didn’t see Indiana Jones anywhere.  But, the hard day did deserve a tall cold one at days end.

 

Holy Moly…one of the great numbers of temples carved out of the stone walls in Petra, Jordan.  Probably some were around 3000 years old and those stone cutters were working sixty to eighty feet in the air carving this temple out of a solid stone wall.  Next stop the hotel, maybe there is a cold beer waiting.