Left home Thursday to wend our way to North Wales from Ipswich, as I cruise over the Orwell bridge up flashes a sign with A14 closed on it! Bugger, so we go A12-M25 and pick up the M6 (just 40 miles further than going via the A14) stopping of at the Wheatsheaf pub for the night and one of there curries.
Friday its on to Trwyn yr wylfa camping site booked by our daughter with hubby chris, they are arriving a little behind us so I have had my orders to pitch close to the toilets as they are tenting. Upon arriving we realise this site is built on the side of a small mountain, all the flat pitches are gone, some of those left are only suitable for mountain goats. We find two pitches which no one wants because once on them you maynot get off, as you are facing up hill on wet grass. So the van stayed there till we left on Monday. When they arrive we make ourselves a little kingdom out off their gazebo our Faimmia awning and various windbreaks we need them as its blowing a gale and raining, welcome to Wales! We get the bar-bi and wine out.
Saturday Chris complains of a rash on his leg so guess he's been bitten by some nasty welsh critter, after a Taxi ride into Conwy he decides to ring 111 as his leg is quite swollen, we all find shelter from the rain in a pub, did I say it rained? It pi**ed down most of the afternoon. After some three hours our marvellous 111 NHS service manages to get a prescription for antibiotics delivered to the local pharmacy just before 5.30,
We dodge the rain to find a takeaway Indian and a cheese shop, so stuffed with wine, cheese and an Indian takeaway we return to site to find his gazebo blown down and broken while our roof mounted Faimmia awning has broken free of its two front legs and is hanging down nearly touching the ground. (New clips ordered today £12.00) So wind 1 kingdom nil. we retire to the Van. 4 adults in a PVC is cosy.
Saturday night the wind and rain decides to give there tent a bit more treatment and on Sunday morning they pack up, intending to leave in the evening back home to Manchester. They drive to Conwy while we get a taxi, Conwy is a nice little town, Edward1 built Conwy castle and a wall around the town which you can still walk all the way around for free, entrance to the castle was £9.20. the castle is largely complete except for floors and the like, I guess one of shifty's ancestors nicked all that.
After a late afternoon visit to Llandudno for a walk along the prom and a meal in the Cottage Loaf pub they go home and we go back to the van.
Monday we leave with a visit to the Chester Designer Outlet planned on the way home but I miss the signs, so getting black looks from wifey I take her to Merry Hill Birmingham for Retail therapy. we leave about 7ish and as we travel up the M6 guess what flashes up on the Overhead signs? Flipping A14 closed again!!!
Its trips like this that make you realise why you go abroad!
Friday its on to Trwyn yr wylfa camping site booked by our daughter with hubby chris, they are arriving a little behind us so I have had my orders to pitch close to the toilets as they are tenting. Upon arriving we realise this site is built on the side of a small mountain, all the flat pitches are gone, some of those left are only suitable for mountain goats. We find two pitches which no one wants because once on them you maynot get off, as you are facing up hill on wet grass. So the van stayed there till we left on Monday. When they arrive we make ourselves a little kingdom out off their gazebo our Faimmia awning and various windbreaks we need them as its blowing a gale and raining, welcome to Wales! We get the bar-bi and wine out.
Saturday Chris complains of a rash on his leg so guess he's been bitten by some nasty welsh critter, after a Taxi ride into Conwy he decides to ring 111 as his leg is quite swollen, we all find shelter from the rain in a pub, did I say it rained? It pi**ed down most of the afternoon. After some three hours our marvellous 111 NHS service manages to get a prescription for antibiotics delivered to the local pharmacy just before 5.30,
We dodge the rain to find a takeaway Indian and a cheese shop, so stuffed with wine, cheese and an Indian takeaway we return to site to find his gazebo blown down and broken while our roof mounted Faimmia awning has broken free of its two front legs and is hanging down nearly touching the ground. (New clips ordered today £12.00) So wind 1 kingdom nil. we retire to the Van. 4 adults in a PVC is cosy.
Saturday night the wind and rain decides to give there tent a bit more treatment and on Sunday morning they pack up, intending to leave in the evening back home to Manchester. They drive to Conwy while we get a taxi, Conwy is a nice little town, Edward1 built Conwy castle and a wall around the town which you can still walk all the way around for free, entrance to the castle was £9.20. the castle is largely complete except for floors and the like, I guess one of shifty's ancestors nicked all that.
After a late afternoon visit to Llandudno for a walk along the prom and a meal in the Cottage Loaf pub they go home and we go back to the van.
Monday we leave with a visit to the Chester Designer Outlet planned on the way home but I miss the signs, so getting black looks from wifey I take her to Merry Hill Birmingham for Retail therapy. we leave about 7ish and as we travel up the M6 guess what flashes up on the Overhead signs? Flipping A14 closed again!!!
Its trips like this that make you realise why you go abroad!
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only one team plays football in East Anglia.
Another shew me the best FLT spots as we drove into Llandudno.
