Wednesday, 4th August 2010
Posted by Judith on 06 Aug 2010 at 11:54 am | Tagged as: Holiday
We woke up and drove along the north side of the Llyn peninsula in search of breakfast. I’ve learnt various things about Wales this holiday:
1) The camping to cafe ratio on the northern part of the Llyn peninsula is completely crazy (millions of campsites, two cafes).
2) The Welsh aren’t big on pavements or parking.
We couldn’t eat in Aberdaron, because there was nowhere to park and it took us all the way to Caernarfon to find somewhere to eat. At Caernarfon, we went to see the castle, which is massive. We were there for a full 3 hours and still didn’t get round all the towers, passageways and nooks and crannies, so we were surprised to see the people who paid in the queue ahead of us leaving after just 17 minutes. A record of some sort, surely. Maybe for the shortest attention span ever.
The other thing I learnt is that the British seem to have become a nation of moaners. Each place we went to people were moaning about this, that and the other. There were even young apprentice moaners under the age of twelve. When in Rome and all that, I found myself starting to moan about stuff as well, but mostly my whinging was about all the moaners around me.
We love castles and got a tour, then read the whole exhibition and then watched the audio visual display, and would have bought the guidebook to look round more if we hadn’t been so hungry and thirsty. After a walk round the town we settled to a picnic in the main square which has a brilliant fountain. It has 24 jets which are controlled by a computer programme set to random patterns, so it changes all the time. There are gaps in the jets and loads of children were running past and through it, gambling on the programme not changing and them staying dry. Excellent fun.
We had to decide what to do next and I’ve always wanted to go to Anglesey. Geoff has dissuaded me before, telling me how flat and boring it is. I wanted to get an independent view, so we went to the Caernarfon tourist information. The bloke there described it as “flat and full of weirdos”, so we went on a boat trip on the Menai Strait instead.
We spent the evening driving through Snowdonia national park and stopped at Beddgelert. Lovely village, stunning river, limited parking.
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Hi Judith,, What a lovely run down over WaLes,, makes me a bit home sick as home used to be just down the road from Cnfn.. Loved yr comments on the moaners… !!! on of the reasond we are now in Oz!! no wingin pommies here ..oh nooo..
Caught up with your audio blog on flyin in passing as Lucy listened intently.. love oyur take on the game and your autoritorial ?? skills. Just had a look at Dave T’s weather webcast too.. and very impressed.. long gone are the days when we just used the synoptics to find days of wind under 20 mph and buggered offf to find a dry site worthwhile… (tho that meathod still works )… Your link has been posted to the Australian fed site and yr getting a named for yourself even here.. So if you get over anytime, do let us know and we’ll rev up the BarbQ.. The comps to do are the Canungra Cup in Queensland (just out of Brisbane) last week of October, then Bright and Corryong next March… come on down !!. best wishes David and Lucy (+Skye).. drop us a line anytime..