Day 37 26/7/19 West Wales to North Wales.

Today we move to North Wales to catch up with Norman and Claire and attend the AOC Northern Section event at the North Wales Classic Car Show at Bodrhyddan Hall, Rhuddlan. We did have an RAF jet fly over almost low enough to touch but the cameraman was to slow to catch it.

Steam train we travelled on a few days ago, this one with two loco's

Some standing stones we passed

Somewhere on the west coast

Not sure which castle this one is

Interesting vegetation trimming on this road

Forest growth is changing

Looking for lunch

Lots of granite and slate still apparent

The Menai Straight

More slate rubble

A very impressive wall near Caernarfon

We had plenty of time so we took a leisurely route via Caernarfon and Conwy to our lodging, a Castle Tower at Arbergele.

This was a good idea until we found the traffic heading into Caernarfon, which was incredible, it turns out traffic all over North Wales was terrible due to it being the beginning of school holidays. Anyway, eventually found somewhere to park, 5 pound whether you stayed for 10m minutes or all day. Caernarfon was a walled city, although now far outgrown the original wall and also has a very large castle, Roman Ruins and several other interesting things to visit, not enough time today so we will have to come back. After a quick lunch we continued on our way.

Part of Caernarfon city wall

Gulls are enormous, this one about 12-14 inches tall.

Caernarfon Castle

Another Caernarfon resident

Town Hall

City wall exit

Swing bridge

Interesting derelict boat in centre of photo (beside white tent)

Another tunnel through the castle walls

Colourfull flats near the castle

The next interesting site we Saw as the castle to Conwy, another walled city, however parking proved impossible so we drove around through the walls and continued on.

The road here travels along the coast via several tunnels and is quite an interesting drive.

Motorway tunnel near Conwyn (its one way, the double lines are to stop you changing lanes)

Limestone is starting to appear in the geology

Conwy Castle

Conwy Castle swing bridge

Conwy is another walled city

From Conwy we set out to find our lodging, a tower which looks like it might have once been a side entrance to Gwrych Castle, the main entrance to the castle now leads to a golf course.

Took us a few attempts to find it as the entrance is via an archway through the tall wall that edges the A road. The 60MPH speed limit makes entering and leaving the tower very exciting.