Soggy Wales
Our Great British Adventure
April 24, 2018It was a short drive to our next destination, Great Barrow near Chester, so I chose a longer route via the west coast so we could "see Wales". The weather was very Welsh - raining all day. We drove through Breton Beacons to Borth, where we had a very nice lunch. We looked for the Drowned Thousand (ancient tree remains) but didn't see them, not that the weather was very conducive to getting out of the car for long. I've since watched the Welsh noir detective series Hinterland (Y Gwyll - The Dusk is its Welsh name) which is set around Aberystwyth and Borth
We then drove up to the edges of Snowdonia (average rainfall is about 4.4m a year so you can guess the weather we found). Wales was very distinctive - lush, with small fields with neat slate walls full of shaggy ewes and their lambs, and grey stone houses with Welsh slate roofs. Uncultivated places were full of dripping mosses on narrow trunked trees with little ground cover. It was all very picturesque.
We found the pub we were staying at and settled in for the night. Anthony was still sick and the weather cold and rainy so we didn't try to explore, despite it still being light at 9pm.
