Last days in Wales
By this time we knew we would have to be heading back to the south west as we had a music festival to attend in just over a week’s time…. Read more »
Category: Wales
A new way up
After Anglesey we headed back into Snowdonia for a third and final time on this trip. The weather was glorious and a mountain walk was called for. Now, we have… Read more »
Blogging Anxiety and our final days in Anglesey
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged for a week, this has caused me a little anxiety, but not quite enough to motivate me to blog. The reason for a lack of… Read more »
Bald Rubber
One of the things we had to do while in Anglesey was replace our front tyres. Paul had noticed that Bertie wasn’t driving quite as responsively as previously (if you can… Read more »
Being Certified
Yet again we needed water and so we looked around for a campsite to fulfil our needs. It just happened to be the weekend, and the weather was predicted to… Read more »
Puffin Watching
Anglesey has it’s own adjacent island in the north west corner, a smaller fractal image of the relationship between Wales and Anglesey; this island is Holy Island and in it’s north west… Read more »
Squirrel Attack
In the spirit of going to new places, our next stop was Anglesey. This island – off the north west corner of mainland Wales – is a popular tourist destination, but I’ve only… Read more »
Carneddau climb
We had decided to walk the Carneddau horseshoe from the Ogwen valley. The Carneddau mountains can be found on the north side of the A5 as you leave Capel Curig heading north and every previous time we… Read more »
New boots and tired legs
The forecast was for two days of rain, but then some improvement. We decided to sit out the rain in Snowdonia, and chose to stay in Betws-Y-Coed, tourist hot spot and… Read more »
Last day on the Lleyn
Our last stop on the Lleyn peninsula was at Nant Gwrtheyrn on the north coast. This heritage centre is home to the National Welsh Language Centre as well as having some… Read more »
A Parcel of Pinnipeds
Pinniped means ‘winged feet’ and is the name applied to animals with flippers, such as walruses, sea lions and seals. Our next stop gave us multiple opportunities to watch common seals… Read more »
Strong Currents
Next it was back to the original plan, and so we headed back down to the northernmost ‘toe’ of the peninsula. Mynydd Mawr (literally Big Mountain) overlooks Bardsey Island and… Read more »
Food Slamming
We needed to make a decision for the next stage of our journey – stick to the coast on the Lleyn Peninsula or spend some time in the mountains of Snowdonia…. Read more »
Shell Island
It’s been a week since we were in Shell Island, but we’ve had limited 3G/4G signal so it’s been difficult to post. This was also the last day of the… Read more »
Downhill in Coed y Brenin
The weather was still very warm, but we decided we wanted something to do other than sit under our awning, so we took advantage of the campsite facilities for one… Read more »
If you cant stand the heat…get up a mountain
The weather was settling into heatwave territory, even Snowdonia expecting temperatures of 27 degrees, so we decided we needed to find a campsite where we could stretch out the awning… Read more »
Up the Estuary
As we headed for our next stop – Fairbourne, just across the estuary from Barmouth – we had to pass through the lower slopes of the mountains of Snowdonia. Beautiful… Read more »
Borth
Morrissey once sang about the ‘Seaside town they forgot to shut down’, and that’s what came to mind when we arrived in Borth, a town on the coast of Wales north… Read more »
Midge Attack
Never let it be said that midges are a Scottish phenomenon. Our next stopping point was the reservoir of Nant-y-Moch, by the head of the dam was a wide parking… Read more »
Ystwyth yomp
We fancied doing the cycle trail alongside the Ystwyth river so scouted round for a parking spot, something that we could access easily with Bertie and would place us on the cycle… Read more »