Most castles in the world were built to protect the country from outside invaders. Not so in Wales, where the castles were built by the English invaders to protect themselves from the very unhappy Welsh people they had conquered.

We were driving from London , headed to Ireland, and before we knew it we were in Wales. We had to be at a boat dock the next afternoon, where we'd board a ship and sail across the Irish Sea to Dublin. Since we had to stop somewhere for the night, and since our daughter's name is Betsy, well, it ... (more)