Got up 8.30. Ate toast and potato cake and drank coffee.
Watched Ian Thorpe win a silver medal in the 200m freestyle (awww!). WE STILL LOVE YA THORPEY!!!
Left at about 10, heading straight to North Wales on a big motorway sort of road. Before long, the scenery became quite dramatic and hilly country started.
We stopped at Conwy and went into the castle. Jill and I went all through the castle and got some great photos. There was a group of horrible children there on an excursion, but we managed to escape them - usually by escaping to higher ground. I wondered it castles had torture chambers for children. . . I really wanted a fitting souvenir of Conwy, and there were some very cool mediaeval goblets, only they were pottery, and wouldn't have travelled well.
We walked through some of the town, saw the oldest house in Conwy (1340s?) [BTW, the castle is 1280s] and the smallest house in Conwy (dodgy!). At the water, I discovered the most ENORMOUS feral seagulls, and they seem normal in this country!!
We travelled on to the Groes Inn (pronounced 'groice') and had a really nice lunch - I had avocade, smoked chicken, crispy bacon salad and we had a bottle of semillon chardonnay - yummy! Jill stole some chocolates from another table so we had extra with our coffee. We drove out further, with the scenery getting more and more beautiful as we went, to Caenarfon. We had a look at the castle, took photos, heard a bit of native Welsh spoken, saw a bit of the town, saw some swans, and saw the local real estate agent - Dafydd Hardy, haha.
We drove on through the Snowdonia region, with sheer rocky mountains, and sheep perched in precarious places. It's beautiful there, with waterfalls and angular lines - so different to the rest of the UK I've seen so far. We saw Mt Snowdon in the distance, and I have a photo of it.
We travelled back through Betws-y-Coed and reached Chester at about 6pm. I had my first experience of Sainsbury's and found that I like it a lot. There is an awful lot of fresh pre-prepared food - we bought some Indian dishes and had them with rice for dinner. Afterwards we watched University Challenge and went to bed.
Watched Ian Thorpe win a silver medal in the 200m freestyle (awww!). WE STILL LOVE YA THORPEY!!!
Left at about 10, heading straight to North Wales on a big motorway sort of road. Before long, the scenery became quite dramatic and hilly country started.
We stopped at Conwy and went into the castle. Jill and I went all through the castle and got some great photos. There was a group of horrible children there on an excursion, but we managed to escape them - usually by escaping to higher ground. I wondered it castles had torture chambers for children. . . I really wanted a fitting souvenir of Conwy, and there were some very cool mediaeval goblets, only they were pottery, and wouldn't have travelled well.
We walked through some of the town, saw the oldest house in Conwy (1340s?) [BTW, the castle is 1280s] and the smallest house in Conwy (dodgy!). At the water, I discovered the most ENORMOUS feral seagulls, and they seem normal in this country!!
We travelled on to the Groes Inn (pronounced 'groice') and had a really nice lunch - I had avocade, smoked chicken, crispy bacon salad and we had a bottle of semillon chardonnay - yummy! Jill stole some chocolates from another table so we had extra with our coffee. We drove out further, with the scenery getting more and more beautiful as we went, to Caenarfon. We had a look at the castle, took photos, heard a bit of native Welsh spoken, saw a bit of the town, saw some swans, and saw the local real estate agent - Dafydd Hardy, haha.
We drove on through the Snowdonia region, with sheer rocky mountains, and sheep perched in precarious places. It's beautiful there, with waterfalls and angular lines - so different to the rest of the UK I've seen so far. We saw Mt Snowdon in the distance, and I have a photo of it.
We travelled back through Betws-y-Coed and reached Chester at about 6pm. I had my first experience of Sainsbury's and found that I like it a lot. There is an awful lot of fresh pre-prepared food - we bought some Indian dishes and had them with rice for dinner. Afterwards we watched University Challenge and went to bed.
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