Trip report: A week in Wales
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Monday
We got up a bit later on Monday and started off with a walk down to the beach followed by walk up the cliffs to look down on the campground and the bay:
After a cup of tea back at the camper we then set out for the south of the Island. There is a major motorway that crosses the island taking all the commercial trucks to the port. Rather than sit on that we took the parallel A5 which went through the small villages. The A5 crosses the whole country diagonally - much of it was previously known Watling Street and goes back a few years. At some stage the Romans paved it and straightened bits resulting in it becoming a bit of a race track in places.
The road went through LlanfairÂpwllgwynÂgyllgoÂgeryÂchwyrnÂdrobwllÂllantyÂsilioÂgogoÂgoch but we didn't stop as doing so might require us to attempt to pronounce the name.
Turning east along the south shore of the island allowed us to see the Menai Bridge from the other side:
We then carried on to the decidedly un-Welsh sounding Beaumaris Castle:
Looking back towards the mainland - the Mountains of North Wales aren't very visible:
From there we went on to Penmon where Sally claimed to see dolphins (for the second time on the trip) - I didn't see them - I claim they were merely waves
Walking along the shore line:
A dovecot (capacity of 1000 or so birds) in the remains of the old Penmon Priory (the Vikings made a mess of it some years ago):
We also found an overgrown quarry behind the priory:
I would have posted part of this trip report while on the trip, but 3G reception was at a premium, and aluminum checker plate gets cold on your behind very quickly:
We returned to the campground for our last night on Anglesey before moving on.
Stay tuned for Snowdonia...
Monday
We got up a bit later on Monday and started off with a walk down to the beach followed by walk up the cliffs to look down on the campground and the bay:
After a cup of tea back at the camper we then set out for the south of the Island. There is a major motorway that crosses the island taking all the commercial trucks to the port. Rather than sit on that we took the parallel A5 which went through the small villages. The A5 crosses the whole country diagonally - much of it was previously known Watling Street and goes back a few years. At some stage the Romans paved it and straightened bits resulting in it becoming a bit of a race track in places.
The road went through LlanfairÂpwllgwynÂgyllgoÂgeryÂchwyrnÂdrobwllÂllantyÂsilioÂgogoÂgoch but we didn't stop as doing so might require us to attempt to pronounce the name.
Turning east along the south shore of the island allowed us to see the Menai Bridge from the other side:
We then carried on to the decidedly un-Welsh sounding Beaumaris Castle:
Looking back towards the mainland - the Mountains of North Wales aren't very visible:
From there we went on to Penmon where Sally claimed to see dolphins (for the second time on the trip) - I didn't see them - I claim they were merely waves
Walking along the shore line:
A dovecot (capacity of 1000 or so birds) in the remains of the old Penmon Priory (the Vikings made a mess of it some years ago):
We also found an overgrown quarry behind the priory:
I would have posted part of this trip report while on the trip, but 3G reception was at a premium, and aluminum checker plate gets cold on your behind very quickly:
We returned to the campground for our last night on Anglesey before moving on.
Stay tuned for Snowdonia...
