Betws-y-Coed

A lovely day exploring such a lovely area of Wales. Left our fairly rustic accomodation in search of a laundromat as washing machine not working! We drove about 39 minutes to Llandudno where we anticipated finding the one on the Internet. To our surprise this was a huge town on the coast with a whole strand of hotels and shops. There were cars everywhere and crowds of people on very narrow streets. We drove around but had little hope of finding a laundramat as the streets were so busy, and narrow and all the signage was in Welsh! We carried onto Conwy, a much smaller and quieter town characterised by a huge castle and castle walls that surrounded the town except for the sea frontage. We had our left over tea with us so found a spot to eat it, which was lovely. We headed into the castle and every turn was amazing. We actually found it more impressive than Edinburgh Castle as older and more to see, even though no guides and a lot less people. Really worth a visit. We then walked down to the pier to find Britain’s smallest house. Not only was it small but so was the lady outside so I looked like a giant! We carried onto a very small village only 4 miles from where we are staying and located a good laundramat. While our washing went round I got rounder by eating yet another gorgeous scone, this time at the quaintest little house covered in ivy with very low ceilings and heaps of character. After picking up our washing we returned to the cottage to organise a parcel of “heavy gifts” to send home. We then wandered into town for dinner and a lovely drink- and good wifi at a bar. Ireland tomorrow.Read more