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Monday, 8 July 2013

Coed Y Llwyn, Gellilydan, North Wales

When the weather is good there is no better place to be on earth than Wales ..and for a base to tour North Wales there really is no place like Coed Y Llwyn caravan club site near Blaenau Ffestiniog. It's in a lovely sheltered valley surrounded by beautiful views. The facilities are what you would expect from the caravan club and the wardens are really nice helpful people, they even left the grass strip between pitches un-mown when I said I was enjoying watching the Bumble Bees on the wild flowers. The pitches are a really good size and we had a large grass area at the back of the pitch to enjoy too.

There is so much to do in North Wales that we have been back time and again but I have to say that having 'Baby' to come home to every day really made this trip special. One of the things that did worry us a little was the journey up. There is no easy way to get from South to North Wales without climbing at least one hill so we took the most straight forward route A465 - A470. The worst part being a couple of miles past Minllyn where there is a 20% gradient leading to a blind hairpin bend. But it turned out to be quite easy and as always Baby towed like a dream. :-))

We had a little drama whilst on a walk to visit the now mothballed Trawsfynydd Nuclear power station. We walked along the cycle route no 80 through a farm called Cae Eilion Allun and were about a mile and a half in when we spotted 3 horses, they looked friendly, but then we saw they were accompanied by a bull!!!!! He looked up from his grazing and then laid down so we quietly carried on. I jokingly remarked that he knew we'd be back so he'd have us then......Well I was right! There was no sign of him as we walked back past the horses ...then we saw him ..the same time that he saw us. The next gate was about 50 metres away but the bull, a welsh black, was determined we weren't going to reach it. He charged down from the field he was in, clearing a stone wall on his way and before we knew what was happening he was a few metres away. I waved my walking stick and shouted at him and he stopped, still snorting angrily. We managed to get Barney over the stone wall behind us then climbed over ourselves, but there was so many gaps we knew it wasn't going to protect us for long and somehow we would have to get over the barbed wire fence behind the wall. We were fortunate that the barbed wire fence hadn't been completed where the wall turned down to divide 2 fields so we scrambled between the wall and fence in the direction we had come and then climbed around the end of the fence over another stone wall and to safety. I really don't know how I got over the 2 walls and the fence and if I was asked to do it now I know I couldn't, the power of adrenalin is amazing.

We spent the rest of our adventurous day relaxing back at the caravan and for the first time took the front panels out of the awning and used it as a canopy.

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