Driving up to North Wales

Posted on 2007/07/01 11:21:36 (July 2007).

[Sunday 24th June]
We had a lot of ground to cover still on our trip around the UK to get Chie's family to meet all of my family. So today we left Abergavenny bright and early (well, in the morning at least) to do that now very familiar run up to North Wales, where my Dad lives.

It is allegedly a four hour drive on a good day, but Chie and I have never managed it in that time - typically once we've added in a break for lunch and a couple more stops en route to stretch our legs, it is more like six hours. Still, on the plus side the scenery is rather nice en route, and we were treated to the occasional clear spell where we could get out of the car and appreciate it.

We did have a small drama at one point - after one particular break to admire the view, we all got back into the car and found the seatbelts on the middle row were somehow locked. I've no idea why this would happen in a car, but we eventually managed to fix it with the automobile equivalent of Ctrl+Alt+Delete - we turned the engine on and off several times, and eventually we were able to pull the seatbelts out.

Our final stop-off on the journey was at Criccieth for a quick ice cream from the famous (?) Cadwallader's shop there.

On arrival at Dad's house, as it was such a nice day (and threatening not to be the following day), we went straight out for a drive to take in some of the local scenery.

Unfortunately, I'd had a bit of a stomach ache the past couple of days, and whilst I'd felt fine in the morning, this afternoon it gradually built up, until I was actually in quite a lot of pain. After our little drive around the local area I basically went straight to bed, and missed out on the evening's merrymaking. I hear everyone else had a nice time though.

The landscapes are stunning, great pictures. I have never been there of course but they must be doubly beautiful "live" than on pictures... Did the Moriwaki like the setting? It must be quite different from what they are used to...

Posted by Lox at 2007/07/01 11:35:36.

Yes I think Chie's family quite liked it - although obviously they have plenty of mountains in Japan, they tend to be covered in trees, and so it makes for a very different kind of vista.

Posted by John at 2007/07/01 12:52:17.

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