Day 33 22/7/19 West Wales.

Day 33 22/7/19 West Wales.

Weather was pretty miserable today, quite a bit of rain overnight, and the hills are shrouded in mist. There was still a light drizzle falling when we set off so we decided to follow the small road out cabin was on into the mountains and see where it went.

View isn't quite as enticing this morning but the rain is clearing

Many sheep inhabit the hills and valleys

This sheep felt the road was hers and as we had an alternative we didn't disturb her.

brooks/ streams have quite a bit of water in them

This very small road across farmland and through a few gates eventually lead to a locality called Llanyuchlln. From there we told the GPS to take us to a supermarket which happened to be in  Machynlleth via some more small roads, and a few slightly larger ones. On the way we visited the craft village in the Corris Valley. The largest slate mine in the country was in the valley and there is slate everywhere.

Navigator was a bit reluctant about opening the gates

Brook on the left, road on the right

We followed some small birds for a while, they didn't want to leave the road

Rail bridge across the estuary near Barmouth

Beach is deserted but given the number of holiday cabins this is unusual we think.

Once again we just picked a direction, back towards our cabin and drove along the coast as much as we could, very rugged but also pretty.

On the way we travelled through the village of Harlech and spying the Castle, decided to visit. The castle was built by Edward the first between 1282 and 1289 and provided an excellent view of ships coming from Ireland. Apart from the castle, Harlech is now also famous for having the worlds steepest street, Fford Pen Llech, with an incline of 37.45%. We have since discovered this has been made one way (a very good thing) and you can only go down it. We went up (and down) the street on the other side of the castle, almost as steep, and the clutch certainly complained when I met someone on our return trip and had to reverse, it has two very sharp bends and is not for the feint hearted (or an Alvis for that matter).

Harlech Castle

Not the steepest street, but still not easy, especially in reverse

Harlech Gatehouse

View from the Gatehouse Tower.

 From here we travelled back to our cabin using some equally narrow roads with a number of farm gates (fortunately not raining now so the navigator wasn’t so reluctant to open them).

This forest appeared almost haunter

Sheep didn't want to leave the road.