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Spent the morning chatting over his experiences & of home & time soon passed. The nurse dressed the wound in my presence and wound was quite a small one but looked clean. It looked suspiciously close to the ankle joint.
Dinner at Llewellyn Café thence to Y.M.C.A. where I wrote to home & M.B. explaining full facts re bro's wound. Thence to Hospital again laden with plums etc. and spend the afternoon chatting.
Swansea
Tea in Neath thence to Swansea by 6.45 train & booked room in Y.M.C.A. in St. Helens Rd. – an excellent building. Walk thro' town to beach. Saw the extraordinary Mumbles Express & also Mumbles Beach. Back to Y.M.C.A. at 11 p.m. & slept like a log. During my stay in Swansea a Miss G. Gregory of 39 Henrietta St. Swansea volunteered to show me the town & places of interest tomorrow.
The town impressed me as being exceptionally busy & the innumerable chimneys & coal mines as well as the black haze called to mind our Newcastle. The mountains of coal were quite unique. The countryside abounded with ruins of Castles & Abbeys which are quite historic.
Slept excellently.
Saturday 9th
Up at 7. Breakfast and travelled by 9.55 to Neath again.