Trip to the seaside..

Even though I love travelling along the canal, I equally love taking the car and just driving. Today we found ourselves in Llandudno, a lovely town on the beach dispute being a dull and miserable day.

In fact, Scott was up at the crack of dawn putting on the fire, feeding Matilda and making sandwiches for the packed lunch before I had even woke to see the clouds overhead and thinking is this really the right day to go to the seaside. However, not to be deterred by the weather we found ourselves driving along to LLandudno.

It has quite a long pier, good shops, loads of hotels, a tram and a cable car which we took up to the Great Orme which had fantastic views. The cable car is the longest passenger cable car in the Britain. At the top there was a café, a tad tacky but quite nice. I think we were the youngest in there when we stopped for a coffee. In fact, Llandudno I think is a haven for older people and coach parties. I would like to go back and would defiantly consider a holiday there in the future.

After Llandudno we drove to Rhyl. A stark difference from the hustle and bustle of Llandudno, in fact it was so dead that I thought that we had been invaded by zombies and we were the only people left. Maybe on a busy Saturday in the summer it has some life as there were the normal amusements, rides, sea life centre and this ride (photo below) which personally I would not trust looking at the rust on it. The beach at places had quite a bit of rubbish, however, we persevered and walked along the promenade and was surprised at the long sandy beaches of which we were the only ones walking along it. In the distance you could see the wind generators which gave the normal view of a bland sea a bit more interest.

At the weekend we had friends visiting. After a long journey with loads of traffic they arrived from London and was taken in by the views and fresh air. We did the usual tour of Trevor for the aqueduct, horse shoe pass and Llangollen with a meal at the Indian restaurant in Chirk. I think they liked the area and like me were very keen to look at the estate agents windows and dream of living in the countryside.

Pictures:

Top are of Llandudno and bottom two are of Rhyl.