Wales Coast Path
Wales Coast Path, day 69: Nefyn to Trefor
Now we are two, C and me, for the toughest challenge of the week, a mountain trek from Nefyn to Trefor across Yr Eifl. And here’s our favourite driver for the Bysus Nefyn trip, talking non-stop with the same workmate. It’s a quick journey: there are no deviations and, like all Llŷn buses, this one […]
Wales Coast Path, day 68: Tudweiliog to Nefyn
Bus journeys to the start of walks are always welcome. Today we’re off, the five of us, to Tudweiliog with Bysus Nefyn. Strangely, the bus visits Nefyn, our final destination, before rattling along to Tudweiliog, but otherwise doesn’t deviate from the road to reach remote villages on either side (there aren’t many of them), so […]
Wales Coast Path, day 67: Porthor to Tudweiliog
Finding the way to Tywyn in our two cars isn’t easy. Turning off the road to Tudweiliog we miss a minor road to the right. We realise the mistake and trying to correct it, but go wrong again and end up on a narrow farm track behind an alarmed family of ducks. Retracing our steps, […]
Wales Coast Path, day 66: Aberdaron to Porthor
We’ve stayed in cottages, houses and old chapels in previous walking weeks, but never in a penthouse. But here we are, in The Penthouse, in a building that’s part of the sea front at Pwllheli. It’s a replacement for the old West End Hotel, built by Solomon Andrews, the original developer of the grand seafront […]
Wales Coast Path, day 90: Conwy to Llandudno
We’re quite a crowd, today, six of us. Enough to cause anxiety, with our clompy boots and bulky rucksacks, to anyone encountering us on the Coast Path. As well as M we have two other guestwalkers, Ca, and M-A, who’s waiting for us at Conwy station. A misunderstanding in the café nearby gives us one […]
Wales Coast Path, day 89: Llanfairfechan to Conwy
Guestwalker M joins the three of us today. Together we walk down to the railway station at Pensarn and wait for the train. It’s a cool, dark day, with a threat of rain. A few yellow-jacketed workers make sporadic attempts to relieve the glumness and dereliction of the place. We catch the train, change at Llandudno […]
Wales Coast Path, day 95: Flint to Chester
In sunny Flint C and I make for a recommended café in Church Street, Yr Hen Lys. It deserves the praise. The coffee is good and the bara brith even better. Back over the railway line, we make for the castle, only glimpsed the day before. A silhouette sculpture – Flintshire has dozens of them, […]
Wales Coast Path, day 94: Talacre to Flint
Today is industry day. We’re back in Talacre, after a pair of slow bus rides, and plan to reach Flint. It’s even colder this morning – it sleets for a time later – and we’re dressed as if for the Norwegian Arctic. This time we do call in at Lola and Suggs for a coffee. […]
Wales Coast Path, day 93: Rhyl from Talacre
Rhyl in the rain is no fun. We’ve arrived from Abergele on the no.12 bus to find the connecting service has just pulled out of the bus station, five minutes before it should have. We take to the depressed streets in the hope of finding refreshement, and just as hope fades and we’re beginning to […]
Wales Coast Path, day 91: Llandudno to Pensarn
I’ve always had a soft spot for Llandudno, despite its pretensions and its appeal to royalty, domestic and foreign. It has many attractions: the languid curve of its bay bookended by the two Ormes, its numerous coffee shops, its graceful shopping arcades, its pride in whitewashed tidiness, the splendour of the Mostyn Art Gallery, the […]
