We arrived at St David’s, the UK’s smallest city, on a beautiful sunny day, We rushed up into the city, which is really just a village, and had a quick look at the cathedral and Bishop’s Palace – very nice! Somehow, we didn’t take the cameras with us. The next three days were fog, fog, and fog – it seems to be one of those places where fog gathers and hangs around. After a couple of days, we realised that if we drove north or inland, it was sunny!
Sunny in Cardigan, fog at St David’s.
Sunny at Abercastle!
Wales seems to have quite a few of these.
Our next stop. You can walk over the headland into Aberystwyth, and get a great view of all the static caravans – see the banner. It’s a stiff walk, we chickened out on the way back, and got the cliff railway to the top and just walked the easy bit.
A very ordinary place.
Looks better from a distance!
Hottest day of the year so far – and hopefully there won’t be any hotter ones. Actually wore my hat, first time since Ibiza.
We’ve seen the black and white houses on the Welsh border, here on the coast it’s pastel colours.
If you wonder why so many places on the Welsh coast start with Aber, it’s Welsh for river mouth.
I think this is the Regency Square. Had fish and chips just round the corner – delicious.
The Welsh are good at stringing together lots of consonants without vowels.
Another waterfall walk – not as long as the last one, but with 600 steps! This couple hadn’t been able to decide what sort of a dog to get?
We last visited the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, in about 1992. Since then, alternative has become mainstream, so while it was really interesting then, we pretty much knew it all this time. Here is a living roof.
A caravan using CDs for its outer shell. Has been on Small Spaces.
This was something we hadn’t seen before – an umbrella for a rotary clothes line.
Hadn’t really though about this, but seems like a good idea.
The beach at Abersoch – looks just like Ibiza, except for the sky!
We are now at Criccieth, where the weather is still being very Welsh. Snowdonia next, so we expect more of the same.
I want an umbrella for my washing line! Genius!
Your challenge: Walk up Mt Snowdon! My parents wimped out last month, very disappointing 🙂
I have a feeling that we too will wimp out. The 600 steps on the waterfall walk were plenty! Maybe we could get the train up, and walk down.
Washing machine umbrellas:-
http://www.rotaire.com
Looks like there’s a queue for them!
Another genius invention:-
http://www.trolleybags.com
I cannot tell you how much I love my trolley bags! They are especially great with Scan as you Shop, but make life so much easier even if you have to go through the checkout.
We got the small bags, but they work best in the big trolleys.
My parents told me the train sells out quickly on a good day, so you need to book early.
I think the problem with Welsh vowels and consonants is that they didn’t really intend their language to be written down, so somebody retrofitted Latin letters very poorly. Latin and Welsh are so completely different, it was never going to work. Still, better than Irish eh?