Fri 28 July 16° Pontcysyllte to Llanberis Pass and Conwy

Showers this morning as we drive past old stone cottages, stone walls and rolling green hills, good roads and a warm feel to the countryside we can relax and enjoy through this very green and pleasant land.

Diesel £1.15 £60 for 52 ltrs. at Betws- y-Coed stunning adventure town with all sorts of activities on offer in this very old stone built town. A gentle climb up towards the pass,  clean shorn sheep most still with their tails on, graze peacefully in the fields with a stream running past on one side and high rocky hills on the other. Then showers turned to down pours as we travel up in what I imagine the Scottish Highlands to look like....the river now gushing past over the rocky river bed. Hardy walkers out there.....not for the feint hearted.

We stopped for lunch debating whether to spend £68 on the Snowdon railway trip but the top of the surrounding mountains were shrouded with low clouds and the man at the info centre advised not a good day to go.

So a bit like Ireland and Skellig Michel nothing we can do about the weather, so onwards to Conwy.

Raining all the way alongside Menai Straight between Wales and Anglesey, Britain's largest Island. Past Conwy Castle with its swing bridge, under a very narrow tunnel....mirrors in...holding breath....hope we don't have to come back this way....still we know we fit through now....arrived at a very picturesque pub stop The Groes Inn beside the Conwy estuary,  good views if the water and countryside.

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Stopped raining long enough to get photo and go over to check in...then it started again...not to worry a warm welcome is waiting for us in side with a good selection of local Ales .