Yay - it's Friday, it's 5:30 and it's time to finish for a two week holiday!
Pembrokeshire Coast Path here I come. Well, just need to pack tonight and then navigate over to Wales tomorrow whilst avoiding any floods. Then it's a few days in a cottage to relax before starting the walk proper on Wednesday next week. 185 miles, 12 bed and breakfasts (so 12 full cooked breakfasts!) and I'm sure a there'll be a few pubs along the way.
Oh and there's about 35 geocaches on the route too which I'll try and find.
Photographs as usual when I get back.
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Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
A Very Welsh Week
Back from holiday. And I could do with another one to recover. We all had a great time, with lots of varied activities.
The cottage was great - an upside down design with the bedrooms downstairs and the kitchen and living room upstairs. This meant you could sit in the evenings and look out over the hillsides. There was also a deck in the back garden with a big barbecue. We had a fun BBQ night with my parents visiting, and also some friends from the Lleyn Peninsula.
In a lot of ways my nieces got to experience the same sort of holiday that I spent as a child here 20 years ago. Then we stayed on a farm and made good friends with the owners. Back then my sister and I would get to go round the fields, see the animals and help out in the cow sheds and with the sheep.
This year was just the same - a field of about 130 sheep and lambs needed to be moved 2 miles to another field. So we helped out - sometimes encouraging them on from behind, and others getting ahead to make a lot of noise and waving to send them the right way at junctions, and keep them out of gardens, streams, churchyards etc.
Another memory I have is of riding around a field on a scrambler motorbike. This time it was a quad bike and the girls loved it.
Trips out included Beddgelert, fishing from Nefyn beach (unsuccessfully), walking at Borth Y Gest, getting drenched at Borth Y Gest, watching seals at Porth Dinllaen, and going aboard the lifeboat there. R and I also had a couple of more sedate days at Bodnant Garden and walking round the walls in Conwy. We finished up with a 5 hour sea fishing trip which was also very quiet - just a few dogfish to show for it.
Anyway - on with a few photos...
The cottage was great - an upside down design with the bedrooms downstairs and the kitchen and living room upstairs. This meant you could sit in the evenings and look out over the hillsides. There was also a deck in the back garden with a big barbecue. We had a fun BBQ night with my parents visiting, and also some friends from the Lleyn Peninsula.
In a lot of ways my nieces got to experience the same sort of holiday that I spent as a child here 20 years ago. Then we stayed on a farm and made good friends with the owners. Back then my sister and I would get to go round the fields, see the animals and help out in the cow sheds and with the sheep.
This year was just the same - a field of about 130 sheep and lambs needed to be moved 2 miles to another field. So we helped out - sometimes encouraging them on from behind, and others getting ahead to make a lot of noise and waving to send them the right way at junctions, and keep them out of gardens, streams, churchyards etc.
Another memory I have is of riding around a field on a scrambler motorbike. This time it was a quad bike and the girls loved it.
Trips out included Beddgelert, fishing from Nefyn beach (unsuccessfully), walking at Borth Y Gest, getting drenched at Borth Y Gest, watching seals at Porth Dinllaen, and going aboard the lifeboat there. R and I also had a couple of more sedate days at Bodnant Garden and walking round the walls in Conwy. We finished up with a 5 hour sea fishing trip which was also very quiet - just a few dogfish to show for it.
Anyway - on with a few photos...
Beddgelert
Sunset - Nefyn Beach
Sunset - Nefyn Beach (almost gone!)
Approaching storm - Borth Y Gest
Nefyn Bay
Yr Eifl
Porth Dinllaen
Bodnant Garden
Conwy Walls
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