{"id":4481,"date":"2017-09-30T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2017-11-13T15:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:42:02","slug":"a-week-in-wales-to-be-edited-and-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"Not quite your average Welsh cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our cottage behind the Ty Gwyn coaching inn at Betws y Coed. Dot (and I) needed the stick to get up there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just back from a week in Wales, during which we stayed in a cottage behind the Ty Gwyn 16C coaching inn at Betws-y-Coed. For a full description of its peculiarities, see my website.<\/a><\/p>\n

We left Norwich on Friday the 22nd \u2013 after Dot had gone for a walk with Anne\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and after a lengthy diversion from the A14 because of horrendous traffic, stayed the night at the\u00a0Macdonald Ansty Hall Hotel , which was in a nice position just outside Coventry. Dinner there was good, and breakfast was excellent, but Dot developed a twisted knee, which caused problems later.<\/p>\n

The next morning we visited Andrew, who\u00a0seemed anxious. After taking him for a very short walk, Dot and I went to Boots for knee support\u00a0and a couple of other things. Drove to Telford Services, where we had coffee, and\u00a0then\u00a0to Corwen. Saw Adrian and Clarissa for \u00a0a cup of tea before driving to\u00a0Betws. Access to the cottage was not easy, to put it mildly. Because of Dot’s bad knee, I had to carry everything in up a steep path, including irregular steps. Bit of a challenge, though. Cottage nice in many ways. Not a very good night.<\/p>\n

On Sunday we woke late, had breakfast\u00a0and went back to bed. We then Drove to Ogden Cottage and walked up to the lake. It was damp, and chilly at times, though generally not cold. Annoyingly, I did not take my phone on the walk because it was not charging properly, and so my holiday mileage was affected. (What a disaster, I hear you say.) After a cup of tea in the cafe, we\u00a0drove across the hills to Llanberis\u00a0and up\u00a0to the house we’d stayed in with David and the children. Then on through\u00a0Llanberis pass behind an \u00a0idiot driving at a maximum of 30mph, mainly less. Walkers in very windy road; so couldn’t overtake. Back in Betws bought bread, withdrew money and got petrol. Had supper in hotel. Raining quite hard. Met Blackpool couple while eating.<\/p>\n

Much better night.\u00a0Drove into Betws on the Monday and Dot\u00a0got new knee support\u00a0 – better fit, but later on she abandoned it. Took “selfie”pix of river for two couples. Drove through Beddgelert to Criccieth. Had lunch there (mushroom omelette + excellent chips). Ate outside \u2013\u00a0very warm. Walked to pier with ice cream, then drove to Morfa Nefyn, recommended by Adrian, but cloud came in and Dot’s knee hurt, so instead of walking, we drove to Dinas Dinlle, where we’d taken children some years ago. Walked on the promenade\u00a0and beach, and I climbed hill. Convoluted but interesting drive to Blaenau Festiniog to find station. Then back to Betws. Not much room to park at hotel. A5 closed. Never found out\u00a0why.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was mild\u00a0but mainly cloudy. Spent morning looking round Betws y Coed (=sanctuary in the trees) and bought some tops. Went to Tourist Information\u00a0\u00a0and saw good film of Snowdon. Felt a bit ill, but drove to Llanberis via Bethesda and improved. Another mushroom omelette at cafe there, then took last train up Snowdon (4pm). Chilly and cloudy at top but clear most of way. Saw house we stayed in. Cost of ticket \u00a358\u00a0for both of us.\u00a0 Watched some TV: Norwich won 1-0 away against Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was cooler.\u00a0Rain set in before 3pm. Not a good night again. Drove to Bala. Stopped on way to climb hill \/ quarry, despite warning notices. \u00a0 Started raining on and off and quite a cool breeze near the top (1700ft). Near Bala visited Mary Jones World<\/em> after tea and sandwiches. It told the story of a teenage girl who walked 26 miles to buy a Bible in Welsh, and how that led to setting up of Bible Society. \u00a0 (We’d received the leaflet by post in Norwich.) Quick\u00a0visit \u00a0to the lake afterwards, but it started raining hard and we drove back to Betws to get changed for our evening meal at Corwen, which turned out really well. Picked up Adrian and Clarissa, met Tish and Glaves at Indian. Very good meal. Saw Nigel at pub afterwards. Drove home. Raining still, but not so hard.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_6768\"Thursday was dry, a bit cooler but some sun.\u00a0Drove to Portmeiron and spent day there: \u00a310 each. Guided walk, train, headland walk. \u00a0Lunch \u2013 average burger, good pizza. Felt ill for while at end \u2013 very tired. Drove via Festiniog, stopped for a while. Wasted evening watching bad Musketeers film.<\/p>\n

Bright periods and showers on Friday. Walked up path from house until we came to road on Mount Garmion. Walked a bit further then back down road to house. Started to rain as we drove through Betws: stopped in layby far side of Chapel Curig for a while, then drove back to Ugly House (very pretty) and had tea and scones. Back to house, then to Conwy Falls, where we saw salmon jumping. Drove to Llanwrst then to Chapel Garmion. Then got petrol. Ate at hotel. Watched TV and did some packing.<\/p>\n

Today started very wet, which meant I got soaked taking everything down to the car. As we drove east the weather improved. Dot drove as far as the Services on the M6 toll, and I drove to Waitrose at Wymondham. Dot drove the rest of way. Very easy journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just back from a week in Wales, during which we stayed in a cottage behind the Ty Gwyn 16C coaching inn at Betws-y-Coed. For a full description of its peculiarities, see my website. We left Norwich on Friday the 22nd \u2013 after Dot had gone for a walk with Anne\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and after a lengthy diversion from … Continue reading Not quite your average Welsh cottage<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}