British Hotel Bangor

High Street Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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Birding around Anglesey

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... but today we managed it in not much more than 20 minutes. Julie observed that it would be nice to see an owl on the way back to the hotel and in the event we saw two, a Barn Owl somewhere west of Llanfairpwllgwngyllgogerychwrndrobwll-l lantysiliogogogoch (don't check my spelling of this) and a Tawny Owl over the roundabout at the A5/A55 junction near the Travelodge.

It was well before 6 p.m. when we got back to the hotel to get ready for a night out and about an ...

A curry and a pint or two

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

... 14,000 people, one of the smallest cities in the UK. We were both quite hungry so we walked into a restaurant called Oriental Origins that was basically Chinese cuisine. It was reasonable. The King Prawns in Soy Sauce were the highlight. There weren't many other customers for a Friday night, though. Next we walked down the road to a pub (The Harp?) that was equally short of custom but which had a good jukebox and won a few more pounds on their quiz machine. And so to ...

Scotland to London via Wales

A travel blog entry by crashdot

7AM, still dark, no wind or rain, temperature below freezing, leaving the chalet almost lost it on black ice. It covered the entire 1/2 mile walk back up the road to the train station. Where the trains were running again!
I have yet to see a public trash bin anywhere - on streets, in stations, in restaurants, yet everywhere is clean. How do they do it? They can't depend on ...

Party party!!!

A travel blog entry by steve-claire

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... a shame to not let him carve that pork! Thanks also to Carys and Phil for the scrummy cheesecakes - Don't worry Carys I've not put that pic on here!!!!!! Also jo for the delicious profiteroles, just finished off the last of the ones I hid upstairs!! Finally got to bed at 3.45 after showing everyone how to dance as you can see from the pics (Well I'm guessing you ...

Party day

A travel blog entry by steve-claire

... t looking good. We have decided to bring
everything forward by a day and fly out on Tuesday instead. Although costing us
another £237 at least we get an extra day in Hong Kong. It's party night tonight
so just hoping that the wind will die down a bit so we can get the gazebo up on
the patio otherwise it's 60 people in the house, should be ...