Camping in North Wales...

Well, we just got back from a camping/road trip to
Wales. Miles and I went with Ric and Lina.
We hired a car, bought tents and were on
our way! We stayed near Snowdonia national park
(North Wales) in a place called Dolgellau. On the
drive we went to Warwick castle. They were having a festival for the long weekend, so we got to see some great stuff. The castle was massive and fully decked
out with Madame Tussauds' models of all the different kings,
queens, servants - everything! It was hard to tell between the models and the staff!

We saw a jousting show, yes with "they're dreaming" jousting sticks!
it was raining all day so it was wet but fun. We spent probably 3 hours there,
then drove on to Wales. The sheep have tails!!!! They
look hillarious!

The country side was beautiful, green, gorgeous houses
and scenery. We stopped by a few towns/villages along the way,
saw steam trains, did the touristy thing. We arrived
in Dolgellau around 6pm (after visiting 3 other camp
sites trying to find the one we booked!) All was well,
we put up our tents and headed into town for a pub
meal. Dolgellau was gorgeous, really quaint. The pub
we wanted to go to was booked out, so we went to a
really old one, been there for a century and more. The
only food they served was roast in a burger with chips
and a meagre garnish of salad. You could only choose
between lamb or chicken. They
covered the whole meal with gravy, so you couldn't
even pick up the burger if you wanted to. We stayed
for one beer and got out of there! We then got some
small blocks of wood, after asking directions from the
local coppa and had some beers and laughter around the
camp fire. Bliss.

The next morning (Sunday) we headed to Anglesey via a
few roman sites (not very identifiable except some
roman writing on a stone), had an english breakfast
in a cute village in the mountains. It was
great, good weather and again just beautiful sights.
We stopped by some river to see if we could cross over
to a cave, thought better of it and headed on.

We got to Caernarfon and saw the magnificant castle on the water's edge, just stunning. We spent quite a bit of time looking in all the nooks and
crannies of the maze, continually getting lost.

We then drove over the bridge to Anglesey and went to a lighthouse which
we had to walk 400 to 500 steps or so (down was okay, up
sucked)!!!! Beautiful views of cliffs and stories
about the old lighthouse etc.

On our way back to the camp site we took the coastal
road, Miles and Ric walked up to an old burial site
while Lina and I checked out the beach.
We had a nice meal and beer in a cute pub in a
small town on the way back, then set up camp fire
again and had some chats, music and beer!

Next morning was Monday, so we packed up camp just
before the rain set in and headed to King Arthur's
Labyrinth not far from Dolgellau. It was cool. The
tour took us on a boat ride in an old slate mine, then we walked through the chambers while we listened to some
of the Welsh interpretations of his life. We
then did some shopping of course! There were sweet
craft, leather and pottery stores where we
purchased a dragon incence burner (smokes out of it's
nose and mouth), I bought a leather belt and leather
bag and Miles got an Excalibur letter opener. We had to get a
toy sheep to remind us of Wales too.

Then we headed home. Traffic was crapola, we tried to
see sights along the way from the car but as everyone
was driving back from the long weekend it was horrid. We
were meant to have the car back in Luton by 6pm, we got
there around 6:30pm so we did prety well, people certainly drive fast here!
Then we trained it back to London and got home around 9:30pm.

So there's an update of our weekend, hopefully you all got a picture of the great time we had...ready for many more!

Love to all! If we can work out how to put more photo's on we will do so soon.