Christmas Road Trip - DAY 2

Pen-y pass - Carpark viewpoint, Snowdon to layby near Penrhyndeudraeth
Well!! What a night!! We all made it through what can only be described as a tornado over night! 🤣 The rain and blustery winds were so strong that it felt like the van might take off at various points. Despite that, everyone had a basically good and comfortable night. Including the dogs.

We were surprised at how dark it was when we woke up, and it was really cloudy too, so although an absolutely stunning view from our night stop, it was also a bit bleak!

The original plan for today was to go up Snowdon, but the weather forecast said otherwise 😂 so we had to find something else to do.

We stopped at Sygun Copper Mine and walked through that. Was really interesting, and the dogs basically coped with it. The rain was biblical, so we were all soaking wet and dirty from the mine... But it was awesome 😎

Once we'd dried off and warmed up a bit we headed for Porthmadog for some lunch and to regroup and decide what next.

After late lunch we went in search of somewhere to stay tonight... There were no campsites open and so we drove around a bit until we found somewhere suitable. We decided on a layby near the gate to an estuary and although it was dark when we arrived we walked the dogs on the beach and it was beautiful!

Can't wait to see it in the morning 😁

Another evening of dinner in the van, watching quite an impressive storm and games... we're looking forward to seeing the view in the daylight 😊Read more