Trip report: A week in Wales
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OK, so after that distraction, on with the important stuff...
I booked a week off work in September, after the kids had gone back to school, so everywhere would be quieter. Sally wanted to visit Anglesey in North Wales because we'd never been there.
Friday
Sally suggested some cycling might be involved, so I strapped the folding bikes to the roof of the camper - not that we used them:
Friday afternoon we headed north west towards Birmingham and then up along the Welsh border. The Camping and Caravanning Club have a POI file I downloaded onto the Garmin Nuvi GPS, so as we headed towards sunset I started looking for campgrounds to use for a stopover for the night - something basic and cheap was called for. We stopped at one and and it was just what we wanted. Just and empty field really, owned by a very pleasant retired couple.
Saturday
Come the morning we checked out the toilet facilities - hmmm, these look interesting:
But quite cute inside:
We headed up further north west through Snowdonia National Park:
We didn't stop - that would come later in the week, instead we headed straight for Anglesey and the historic bridge over the Menai Straits:
Thomas Telford's bridge:
Not much clearance:
We headed up to the north east coast of the island - almost still summer:
After a walk along the beach and some sandwiches we moved inland and found an old copper mine:
Some of the copper mined here would have ended up lining the hulls of wooden warships
Then onto the campground - this one Sally had booked in advance - again, a fairly basic campground, but with a sea view:
We decided to fry some food, but rather than do it on the camper stove covering the camper in grease and making it smell, I had brought my old camping stove - it worked well:
Stay tuned for more...
Steve.
OK, so after that distraction, on with the important stuff...
I booked a week off work in September, after the kids had gone back to school, so everywhere would be quieter. Sally wanted to visit Anglesey in North Wales because we'd never been there.
Friday
Sally suggested some cycling might be involved, so I strapped the folding bikes to the roof of the camper - not that we used them:
Friday afternoon we headed north west towards Birmingham and then up along the Welsh border. The Camping and Caravanning Club have a POI file I downloaded onto the Garmin Nuvi GPS, so as we headed towards sunset I started looking for campgrounds to use for a stopover for the night - something basic and cheap was called for. We stopped at one and and it was just what we wanted. Just and empty field really, owned by a very pleasant retired couple.
Saturday
Come the morning we checked out the toilet facilities - hmmm, these look interesting:
But quite cute inside:
We headed up further north west through Snowdonia National Park:
We didn't stop - that would come later in the week, instead we headed straight for Anglesey and the historic bridge over the Menai Straits:
Thomas Telford's bridge:
Not much clearance:
We headed up to the north east coast of the island - almost still summer:
After a walk along the beach and some sandwiches we moved inland and found an old copper mine:
Some of the copper mined here would have ended up lining the hulls of wooden warships
Then onto the campground - this one Sally had booked in advance - again, a fairly basic campground, but with a sea view:
We decided to fry some food, but rather than do it on the camper stove covering the camper in grease and making it smell, I had brought my old camping stove - it worked well:
Stay tuned for more...
Steve.
