During June 2005, I visited Wales with my wife. We took a weekend conducted tour operated by ’’Budget Trip’’ of London. We departed from London on Friday evening. We reached Llandudno at around 11 pm. We stayed in a B&B (I’ve forgotten the name of the hotel).
Next morning we travelled Llandudno for an hour. There was a tram service (more than 100 years old) which goes to top of Llandudno mountain. Llandudno (pronounced as Clandudno) is a picturesque city. It’s small, old and beautifully perserved sea side town.
After that we travelled by bus to the base of Snowdon mountain. It is the highest mountain in Wales. There is a train service (toy train) which can take you to the top of the mountain for £20 return per person. It’s a bit expensive but climbing the mountain by foot is too exhaustive! We took almost 3 hours to reach the top of the mountain by walking. It is really too long. I really should have taken the train (at least for climbing up). So, I suggest that if you visit Snowdon mountain, unless you are a good hiker, better take the train.
However, the view from the top of mountain was spectacular! Some blue lakes can be seen from the mountain on all sides. The weather was clear and it potraited a perfect natural beauty.
On next day morning, we travelled first to Conwy castle. It is situated at Conwy - which is again a sea side town. Incidentally, the smallest house in Great Britain was also there! The journey to Conwy was marvellous. On one side of the highway there was mountain and on other side the sea. It was truely eye catching scenary - as we see in picture postacards.
The Conwy castle itself was not that impressive. It’s a typical British castle with no special characters. Visitors can walk thru top curtains of the outer castle wall.
From here we travelled to Llanflair (pronounced Clanflair). It is a very small town. It has longest place name in the world - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.
From here we moved to Beddgelert village. It’s again a wonderful well preserved mountain town. A small stream of river was flowing thru the centre of the villages. Most houses were made of stones. The flowers spread all over the city.
While coming back from Wales, we travelled a lot of distance thru mountains. The natural beauty of the Wales was marvellous. North Wales is one of the best scenic places in Britain.
In Wales, all signs are written in both English & Welsh languages. Wales is still sparsely populated and kept its pristine natural beauty for years.
PS: Welsh women are most good looking in the Great Britain :-)