I’ve not yet talked about our new friend we’ve made here at our BnB… Her name is Sylvia and she’s seemed to have taken a liking to us. Every time we see her we end up sitting and chatting. She’s from somewhere in England and holidays at this BnB for at least a week every year, because she’s friends with the owners. She’s probably in her 70s, and has lost her husband John so she travels alone. Which means she scouts for new blood and we fit the bill. Anyways, we saw her at breakfast ( full Welch again), and she gave us a gift…a placemat with all the Northern Wales castles on the front and traditional Welch recipes on the back. It was very sweet since when we saw her on the way out yesterday we told her we were headed to conquer some castles.
Anyways, today is Laundry day… It’s always interesting finding and using laundry facilities in a different country, but we always plan for it. Pretty easy and uneventful this round actually, and we only spent a little over an hour so that was nice.
Today also turned into a hiking day. All around us are beautiful hikes and so onward, or rather upward, we went. Hiking for about six hours all around the mountains above the sea. Absolutely breath taking views. We debated whether it was prettier than Austria or Italy’s sea views and we can’t decide between them. It’s like when you ask a parent to choose their favorite, or most beautiful kid… They never want to answer that question?!
We saw a ton of sheep and ewes as well as some really cool landmarks – an old iron mine, Iron Age fort, tons of old ruins, etc. We even summited a mountain…something I never thought I’d say I’d be doing, but here we are again.
Oh… And we found our new home. That’s right. We are just going to buy this plot of land and be sheep farmers. I think it’ll suit me. I’d do almost anything if it meant I could live here…
And have this view…
Definitely a worthwhile hike even if we ended up with a terrible sunburn. I even put on sunscreen…thank goodness because I’d be a miserable lobster right now if I hadn’t. Not that I’m not sunburnt… Because I am. Even Mr. Italian is sporting a sunburn.
Off point… After we finished the hike, we had to walk back to our BnB and guess who was sitting outside.. Waiting for us to come home?! Ms Sylvia of course. So we had to hang out with her for awhile before heading down to dinner. Which meant walking back into town…did I mention we already hiked for six hours today??
But dinner was worth it for the ambiance more than the food. Food was okay… steak and Lamb. But the Welch Pub we chose was just a cool place to hang out. The whole time during dinner Adele was blaring from the jukebox. It was pretty darn great.
Side story: At the pub, there were a group,of girls who we discovered were having a Hen party, or as we call Bachelorette party. Kevin and I joked about having a having a bar hopping Hen party in a town with three bars is kinda sad when we run into the coinciding Stag party, or bachelor party. Reminds me of the Gilmore Girls episode where Lane and Zack have their Bachelor and Bachelorette parties separate in Stars Hollow. They run into each other at the town square to discover that they we’re planning the same night… Dinner, stopping at the one movie theater in town and then going to the one bar in town. *end side story*
Came back from dinner to the most beautiful sunset over the sea that we’ve seen…
We are sad to leave Northern Wales, but we are ready to venture to Middle Wales tomorrow 🙂
