Our Walk to, from, and around Chirk Castle, including inside it

C: We walked up to Chirk Castle from the canal, then we went to the visitor center and got tickets and waited there. It had chickens. One of them was like a big ball of fuzz, about 6” high, and about 6” long and about 6” fat. They had a hat that I really liked at the visitor center. It was a coarse wool, very small plaid, and it was a really nice hat. I know for a fact that I didn’t have enough money to buy it, for I only had 20p. I didn’t bother checking how much it cost.

Then we went to the Tea Room, and the scones were really good when they had butter and jam on them, but the tea was a little too strong. The room was an old place, and the wing that we were in had some old tub with some thing on the top, and two faucets. The room was inside the castle, so I guess we were pretty lucky to be able to eat scones and drink tea inside a 700 year old castle in eastern Wales.

We went on a tour, and there was a bunch of roped off old furniture, and candle things, and dishes and chandeliers and stuff. It was actually kind of interesting. And there were a bunch of paintings on the walls, and each had numbers, and you looked at the paper in each of the rooms that told you what they were. They were mostly portraits with ruffs around their necks. I don’t know how they could stand it, it must have been uncomfortable.

Then, we went to the family room and tried on a whole bunch of costumes of rich people, and there was a hat that was actually of the Gold Rush time-period style. In the first room there were shields. After we went to the family room we went to one of the towers, and there was even more dress-up stuff, and I dressed up in a leather jerkin and an odd hat.

The dungeon had a dirt floor, and on the dungeon staircase was a lower guard’s room. I think Sir Thomas had it good. He had a nice big room in the top of one of the towers. In fact, I got to run around the room.

On the way there and back, we walked through a bunch of pastures where cows and sheep live, and along the fence there was a lot of wool stuck in the wires, so we picked it off, and by the time we got to the boat, we each had a considerable amount of it. Loads of it was full of poop, and we decided it wasn’t worth it. The clean stuff we kept.