North Wales

Outside one of the many restaurants/Pubs we have managed to discover.

I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT DAY THIS IS. Sorry there have been no postings for the past several days and I know my sons cannot believe it but there are NO internet connections here and they have never heard of STARBUCKS.

But it’s our last day here at the Pont-Y-Pair Hotel in BETWS-Y-COED (North Wales). By chance we found this place because we were looking for something centrally located. It was a Bank Holiday (23-26 May) one of the Mayor GB Holidays and we were lucky to find two rooms. The owner is French and he and his wife have only been here 6 months. We have had a great time, the area is beautiful, in the Snowdonia National Park, lots of walking trails, white water, and tourist. It is sitting in the mountains in a beautiful narrow valley, with a small white water river that we can see and hear from the bedroom window (it kept Judith awake the first night) every building is build of slate stones with slate roofs, slate fences along both sides of the narrow roads (really narrow roads). The road is so narrow that at most places in town there is no sidewalk, the buildings open into the street, not that unusual in this area, people stop in the street and traffic moves around them, the hi-ways are also narrow and in places narrows to one lane without warning, Tommy is a basket case and the girls are not much better, everyone wants to help but no one wants to drive. (lots of air being sucked between the teeth, and grabbing the seat and dash, all very distracting)

There has been a church here since the 6th Century, this one was built in 1286, it overlooks the North Sea.

Lots of wind on the high places, and the girls are hiding.

We have visited Conwy, Caernarfon and Dolwyddelan Castles (lots of letters and very few vowels), slate mines, 11^th Century Churches, beautiful gardens, woolen mills, seen a million sheep and cows, 750 thousand miles of rock fences ( does not seem to be any wood fences in North Wales), marveled at the tiny cars and been blessed daily with the beauty of Gods Creation.

We depart tomorrow and head East, perhaps to Chester or Wrexham, only tomorrow will tell. Diesel fuel is 1 Pound 50 p per quart ($3 @ QT, $12 a Gallon) but you are only really deeply in debt once so we might as well go for it.

Saw a sign today that fits a lot of us, “Men have three hair styles, Parted, Unparted and Departed” which style fits you??

Lots of narrow roads

More later.

Old ruins, no not Judith, the old castle. North Wales in background, everything is green and lush.