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Wales
... on the beach. After a good nights sleep, and another full breakfast we strolled the one short block to the beach. It was a very long semi circle of stones bordering the Irish Sea, I me tend that this is the resort spot for Wales and you can see this here as the beach front was made up of guest houses, hotels and B&Bs. Strolled back to accomodation and left for our next stop which was at Friars Carse in Auldgirth near Dumfries in ...
Bus Rides and Brocken Spectres
... that a couple of people were prepared to claim that the £1 bus fare was the best value for money they'd had for some time!
Sunday morning was bright, but with plenty of showers around. After driving to Croesor, we walked (pretty slowly!) up the west ridge of Moelwyn Mawr, getting into the cloud near the top. As there looked to be a chance of the clag clearing, we had lunch just beyond the summit, in a sheltered spot. No clearance, but some ...
A drive to Anglesey
I seem to have lost the first entry in this blog, which mentioned that we left home on 11 October and flew to UK to spend some time visiting family in Colwyn Bay North Wales before embarking of our cruise to Egypt, Jordan and Dubai on 26 October. We didn't do much sightseeing there, except for this one day out. It was quite sunny although very windy, so we decided to take a trip ...
Anglesey attractions
... castle and worth a second look.
Moelfre is a small village with a memorial to Dic Evans a famous and highly decorated lifeboat coxswain. We might even have seen this, had there not been a confusing selection of diversions and no through roads which effectively closed off the whole village.
We gave up the struggle and headed on towards Parys Mountain.
Once again, as we arrived, most people were about to leave.
Undaunted, we marched up to ...
Crunchy kippers
... I didn't understand it, but it was also something that left me worried, so I didn't see much of it, but enough. I have a vague recollection of a huge (what I now know to be a Pilates Ball) chasing poor Patrick McGoohan through this weird village...
... and here we were, there! Bizarre.
Built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975, and based on an Italian village, he was trying to show that one could take ...
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