Northern Europe
What’s a Honeymoon Without 1,000 Castles?
Conway in Northwestern Wales is one of the great fortresses of medieval Europe
Ok — 1,000 castles is rather a hyperbole
But my wife Mary Jane would at least claim now to have visited one hundred over our week in Wales in 1995. We also stayed a week in London — well, in Brent Cross where I received a Holiday Inn discounted room for 15 quid a night because I worked in the “Hotel and Restaurant Industry.”
Well, I was a waiter — but when I met Mary Jane at a dance in Philly, that’s what I originally told her.
Because I fashioned myself in the Quixotic Mode of Knight Errant, as well as having studied in England in Newcastle a few years before the honeymoon, I wanted the honeymoon to be “romantic.”
And I’m talking about romantic with a capital R — like Medieval Romance. Mary Jane would have preferred something more relaxing and sunny, you know, where two young lovers can enjoy so much time together. Bermuda — or something like that.
But she knew how thrilled I was to finally have not only a girlfriend — my first, but also now a wife. Wow. So when I woke up after our awesome wedding night, I was so worried about the trip and…
