St. Fagan's Emporium of Reconstructed semi-historical buildings.

Ah, well let's just gloss over the large span of time that I have been woefully remiss in my blogging with the following statement...yoiwo (you're only in wales once) and I've been 'busy.' By which I really mean to say that I'm a total slacker and got distracted by my new love...pinterest.com

ANYWAYS, this shall be the first of a series of catch up entries that shall include:
-St. Fagan's
-The Welsh Assembly
-Dylan Thomas and St. David's
-Varsity
-The Cardiff Cobras


The trip to St. Fagan's, which occurred approximately 3 Wednesday ago, was the first of the series of field trips associated with our Welsh culture and language courses. As St. Fagan's is National History museum it pertained primarily to our Welsh folklore class, my favourite, and St. Fagan's was right up my ally.

The site, which spans many beautiful Welsh acres, is the home of period buildings spanning from a Iron Age Celtic village through to a small miner's cottage decorated ala 1970 and everything in between. The piece de resistance of the place is either the Medieval Catholic Chapel or the Victorian Era 'castle' which is more like a manor house with the beautiful landscaped gardens you see above. It was as though the Queen of Hearts herself could have walked out of the rose garden and chopped off my head...fortunately that didn't happen.

The site also features a working loom, bakery, pottery studio, mill, and a plethora of other buildings that have all be relocated onto the site from other locations in Wales. I loved every minute of our adventure and was filled with the excited joy of a kid goings to colonial Williamsburg for the first time. I absolutely adore historical reenactments and I was giddy.






I also loved the Victorian Tea House run above the general store in the main village of the museum, where we enjoyed a nice cup of tea after a long day of touring around the expansive museum.

All in all it was a fantastic day, filled with good people, beautiful places, and actually some pretty great Welsh weather. Definitely one of the coolest things we saw all day though was a flock of white doves alighted as one from their dovecote. It was truly a scene out of a Jane Austen movie.

My sheep.

Celtic dances in the Celtic Village.

Caroline teaching Lauren a lesson in the Unitarian chapel.

Lauren and I in the Castle Gardens.

For more info about St. Fagan's check it out here: St. Fagan's National History Museum

Best part...since its part of the Welsh national museum consortium it is COMPLETELY FREE.