Had a wonderful day here – spent over four hours and my feet were a bit sore at the end. 7 different kinds of flamingos

  

 

 

 

  

  

  

   

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Been very hard to get anything uploaded as since I left Conwy I’ve had pretty crap Internet and dodgy accommodation – but more to come!!

Conwy is a beautiful little town and https://www.homeaway.co.uk/p6504264 this was just a wonderful place to stay.

One day I went out to South Stack Lighthouse – glorious day and the RSPB (birdies) had a hide where you could see webcams of the birds on the cliff and binoculars.

 

    

Beautiful flowers on the hills

      

These sheep didn’t eat much

 

 

Then onto Bodnant Gardens a National Trust place

The house isn’t open to the public but it was an amazing backdrop to the gardens

      

 

 

    

 

Been a bit slack lately with writing and I’m trialling posting this directly to Facebook so please let me know how it works for FB users (if not I’ll repost separately).

Rather than go back I thought I’d catch up with where I am now and hopefully will get back to share the other thousands of photos I have from London.

On Saturday morning after nearly 6 weeks in London I picked up the hire car and headed to Conwy in North Wales.  It’s a lovely little town and I’m in one of the best self contained holiday cottages I’ve ever been in (apart from the teeny narrow high stepped staircase).  It’s spotless, modern, has a wonderful shower and really well equipped so I can do some cooking.

Today I went up to the top of Mt Snowdon (the lady in the supermarket thought I was being very brave going up on my own until I explained that I was catching the train up and not walking – because she normally walks up)

The train driver who was surely not more than 12 said he goes up in about 1 hour 45 minutes.  After getting to the top on the train even if I was fit enough to walk up I know that I’d have to go up looking at the ground because of my fear of heights.

Pretty places on the way to Snowdon

     

   

I passed a couple of places that having surfing spots out in the middle of the countryside

A Welsh traffic jam

Looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy

Llanberis where the train departed

        

I really want to play scrabble in Welsh – you don’t need vowels

  

So Allan in Welsh means out – where does that leave Alan Davies

Views on the way up

 

    

   

    

The sheep were amazing – they could do with some crutching.  They are obviously wild and some of them have great hunks of wool hanging off the front and full wool at the back

  

Views from the top

    

Paddington enjoyed his day out and got a few compliments.

    

 

I’d always wanted to visit the cafe at Petersham nursery and it was a glorious day so off I went.

There’s a tea room and a fancy cafe so I headed for the tea room.  Food was lovely and fresh but I found it all a bit twee although it was extraordinarily pretty.

 

               

As always the moral of the story is to try and go home a different way.  I figured it wouldn’t be far to the river but got horribly lost down all the lanes until some dear lady went out of her way to take me there.  You’d have no idea that you’re less than 15km from the centre of London out here although the flight path to Heathrow is right above.

 

Then a wander down the river to Richmond which is on the Thames