Wool Museum / Holiday snaps!

So I've been on holiday!
Me and the boyfriend took a nice little trip to Aberystwyth in Wales.  We stayed in a lovely B&B (it had a hot tub!) for a couple of nights.  I managed to drive all the way there without getting lost, (thank you TomTom) which was quite an achievement for me.
An hour's drive from Aberystwyth is a Wool Museum.  I don't agree 100% with wool, and the way a lot of the sheep are treated in the wool process, but I love my knitting, so we went.  It was an old wool mill (not been used for many years) and we had a tour and demo by a lovely man called Keith, who's relatives once worked there.  Anyway, here are some photo's, starting with a couple of nice shops we found in the village.....

We found a lovely shop selling 100 types of tea and special biscuits.  The window display was brilliant, what I expect my future kitchen shelves to look like:

Tea shop with the best window display

Tea shop with the best window display

Tea shop with the best window display

I FOUND VEGAN TRUFFLES! YESSSSSSS

I tracked down the knitting shop: Clare Wools. I got some rather interesting/pretty yarn that I will show you in a future post. I'm knitting a cowl with it.

A LOT of yarn

More yarn

Me, knitting in the hotel room

WOOL MUSEUM:

Robi being rounded up

Me, I felt like a borrower

Keith, our tour guide, he was lovely

Very old spinning wheel

A large version of what I call a 'knitting dolly'

Machine used to brush wool.  They used to use prickly plants to smooth out the wool

Lovely knitted blanket the local knitting group made

Tea and cake time.  I carry these cartons everywhere now

Nom nom nom

Knitted cakes in the cafe

We found a lovely butterfly house to visit.  Loads of exotic butterflies from all round the world.  It was like a massive greenhouse (so warm that my hair went frizzy!), butterflies flying round landing on you, rare plants and a nice cafe for a cup of tea!  They help to breed butterflies that are dying out, and all the profits of the place go to helping their natural environment and protecting the rain forests.  It was brilliant, we went in twice:

Robi with butterfly

Butterfly on my shoulder!

Me in the front garden of the butterfly house

Fat caterpillar having a munch on some leaves

Butterfly likes knitted jumper

MASSIVE MOTH

Prickly plant we saw being used at the wool museum

On the way home we stopped off at a place called the 'animalaruim' but I will show you those pics in my next post.

It's depressing being home and back to work.  I loved being by the coast in Wales so much, our hotel room looked out to the sea, it was lovely.  It makes me feel like I'm not cut out for city life, and I should live in a nice little village somewhere and live happily ever after..... we'll see!



xx