Day 4 & 5: Playing and walking.

Hi everyone!
It was our last day of half-term yesterday :( so we wanted to have movie morning with Mum before we did any training. It was nice to have a lie in and a cwtch. We love cwtches (that's Welsh for hug). After all that swimming we really ached as well :( so it was nice to snuggle up and watch a really nice film.

We all got ready to go for a long walk but then our friends came round and Mum said we should go out and play instead because its been raining most of the week. We did quite a bit of running around and riding our bikes

We had another movie morning this morning and didn't get up until REALLY  late  so mum said "Right, lets go for that walk now!" So off we went! We live in a place that has LOTS of hills and a lot of history. When we were being home-schooled we learned a lot about the history of Swansea by going on walks and Mum would tell us about all the old places that we saw. Swansea used to have a really big copper works, the biggest in the world in Victorian times and there are still lots of the old buildings in the Hafod which is where we go to school. 

First of all we went up to Waun Wen park and climbed the climbing frames.




















 












Then we walked passed the Catholic school and found a little garden that was really overgrown but we found these little signs everywhere. It was quite spooky!







We then walked to Hafod which is at the  top of a really steep hill. A Hafod was a place where farmers used to take their sheep to graze in the summer. 'Haf' means 'summer' in Welsh. We learned that in homeschool.

On the way down to the old copper works we went to see the old buildings down by the river Tawe. They're all falling down now and covered in graffiti. We went further than we've been before and found Vivian & Sons Shed number 1. Mr Vivian was the owner of the copper works and his family built all the houses in the Hafod but we don't know what the shed was for. It was more spooky than the the church garden :O

We'd been walking for ages by now so Mum said we could walk to the shop by the Liberty Stadium and get some chocolate to eat when we finished our walk.

The walk home was really hard, I don't think we've ever walked that far before and it was all up hill and then down hill and up and down :( it was really good practice for climbing Snowdon.

It was dark when got home. We were really tired because we had been walking for 2 and a half hours!!! Mum made us pasta for tea :)

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