Gellilydan

Wednesday

Tudor house. DLG museum and grave

Porthmadoc beer shop

CMC site

Thursday

RAIN - Electric Mountain / Dinorwic Llanberis, 

Drove back past Green Man site and Bedd Gelert but didn't stop.

Aberdaron

        

Sunday

1. St Bueno's Cynnog Fawr

2. Nant Gwrtheyrn - down to centre, fishcakes, climb up.

3. Maritime museum - Nefyn?

4. Walk across golf course to pub. Cafe bara brith.

5. Aberdaron site - slopey, tiny village. Aweful night, gales, rain, I was mashed in to the side of the van.

Monday

Rotten morning, cafe shut, 7 mile drive to get fuel. Then - wow - Felin Uchaf. Sheep mat. Down to Aberdaron, church, NT art exhibit, lunch on site in the sun. Bardsey lovely, but cold wind.

Tuesday

Porth Or - singing sands, cofee, jasper? House and art gallery, theatre Llanbedrog. 3 ladies house, hells mouth. Ice cream in Aberdaron.

Caernarvon stopover

      

I arrived on Friday evening, to a slightly disappointing pitch - pretty much on the driveway of a farm, but I could see the estuary and it was easy to walk in to town the next day. 

Lloyd George statue

Cloudy and drizzly weather continued, but I walked up to Segontium Roman fort which is at the top of the town, before continuing on to Abadaron.

Aberystwyth

Heading home, I called in at where Dad did his M Ed degree. The photos don't do it justice, the weather wasn't that bad! On the front were lots of international flags, mainly from people struggling for independence - very interesting.

I walked to the end, and this photo shows me 'kicking the bar', which is a tradition but no-one seems to agree on why: Kicking The Bar

This is a spot just under 'Consti', otherwise known as Constitution Hill.

The best way up there is the Cliff Railway. Nice brunch in the caff looking at the lovely view.

New Quay

The Good Life campsite was facility-free, but had a sea view (just) and would have been quiet except for the barking dogs locked in the neighbouring tent - some people shouldn't be allowed animals...


I set off from the campsite on a Ceredigion section of the  Coast walk - Cwmtydu to New Quay, and it was fantastic! Very hot, I was glad I had the sun at my back. Lots of up and down over the clifftops to a pretty town in full holiday swing. Sadly I had picked a day when the bus didn't run, so got a taxi back to the site as I was jiggered.

Cwmtydu

Along the route

New Quay

The next day I did a short walk from the site again, through some positively Jurassic Park-style woodlands, ending up at a local landmark called Pea Pod Corner with a cute gift shop.

Marloes

After calling in at the Ferry to see Jackie and Karen (and meet Ethan for the first time!) I headed off to a small village called Marloes, on a small headland jutting out to see.

Foxdale campsite was a large field of mainly tents, luckily for me it was quite quite. I think it was a good choice - an onsite kiosk selling stew for tea and bacon butties in the morning. Lovely couple running it. It was also much more sheltered than the CL I saw later on the trip being battered by the wind.

The next day I took a walk round the headland - through the village past the bell tower, across the old airfield, through a bird reserve (with hides) and along cliffs. I also detoured to Marloes sands, which was a cracking beach, mainly because there is no car access.

On the way up to my next stop, I called in at a pretty town called Newport, right on the estuary. Popped in to stock up on supplies.  

One great stop, down tiny leafy lanes, was Bluestone Brewery. Picked up a few bottles for research purposes.

Next stop was Pentre Ifan neolithic dolmen, a burial chamber with a fabulous outlook. Also made from bluestone, named after the brewery (ha!).