There is a house on our street with a laburnum tree in their garden. It’s perfect for gauging when to visit Bodnant Garden’s laburnum arch, so when we noticed it was in full bloom at the end of May we decided to go for a visit. We weren’t disappointed! We had no other plans for … Continue reading A Day at Bodnant Garden
Today’s walk was about 7 miles along gorgeous coastline. The day had about 875′ total ascent, which was mainly from dips in the path along the coast — there were a handful of spots where we dropped down to cross a stream coming out to the sea and then back up again. We decided to … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 9 (Nefyn to Tudweiliog)
Today was quite a long day of walking! Officially it was 12 miles and 1780′ ascent, but we added 2 miles (one on each end between the path and hotel) and the ascent on our GPS said we went up more than that, too. We started by walking up out of Llanberis to the southwest, … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 6 (Llanberis to Penygroes)
Today was a planned day of rest — 5 days down, 5 to go. We stayed in Llanberis and did our best to relax and rest our feet. We managed a bit of a lakeside walk (and two geocaches), and after lunch we took the Snowdon Mountain Railway steam train up to the summit of … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 5 (Llanberis – rest day)
Today’s walk was mid-range, with only 7.5 miles on the path but plenty of ascents and a mile walk off the path to our hotel at the end of the day. We started the day in Tregarth and ended along Llyn Padarn in Llanberis. Soon after leaving Tregarth, we started up a hill through the … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 4 (Tregarth to Llanberis)
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