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Friday 21 June 2019Time to go to a different country, Welsh-land here we come. We’ve heard some good things about this place from some Welsh people. Despite their comments, so far, the weather has been stunning and sunny and I haven’t yet spotted the bleakness
First stop was the seaside town of Llandudno, which seems to be the Victorian era seaside resort town. The main promenade is full to gorgeous Victoria villas. However, we weren’t here to do the seaside and arcade thing, we were here to see the big hill, the large rock, The Great Orme, there was nowhere to park anyway. I asked The Albatross what is was exactly and he compared it to The Nut in Stanley, Tasmania. Despite that, it was really quite pretty with great views across the Irish Sea to look at the horizon, wind farms and apparently Isle of Man was out there somewhere too. There are a number of ways to get to the top, walk, drive, tram, cable car, teleport.
We decided to have an early lunch at the café on the summit. We walked drove up here so might as well enjoy the sights. However, the hot food wasn’t served until 12noon. This meant that all we could get to eat was cake, eclairs, pure sugar in the disguise of food. The café was full of old people eating sugar and drinking tea. We walked next door and got a beer, admired the view and waited for noon to arrive.
Back down the hill and off to Bangor to look at the engineering marvels, bridges. However, along the way we experienced some long tunnels. Really exciting. :-)
First bridge was the Menai Suspension Bridge built by Thomas Telford. Great looking bridge designed to stop cows drowning on the way to the mainland.
Just up the river, 1km, is the Britannia Bridge designed by Robert Stephenson. It is a tubular bridge made of iron rectangular boxes all put together. The main point of the bridge was so a train could service the island and provide a link (by sea) to Dublin. They eventually put a road on top so you could also drive across it in a car.
So, suitable impressed by the engineering feats of Wales, we came to Caernarfon. The local highlights in town is the roman walls and Caernarfon Castle. We have a lovely room in a pub for the night which is inside the roman walls. Rather cool.
We went for a wander around town and the castle and has a cider in the lovely sunshine. I don’t know why everyone says the weather is bad in this place. We have had lots of sunshine.
