Roadtrip to Snowdonia

Well, after a good nights rest we packed up the car, left a big thank you note to Sue and Patrick and hit the road to Snowdonia. A five hour drive lay ahead of us, or rather, should I say Chris (remember it’s a manual car) and we were eager to make a move. The trip to Snowdonia was successful and uneventful thankfully. We left at 10ish in a bid to miss all the workers traffic and this plan went beautifully in our favour. The M roads are a bit scary to negotiate I must admit and I say that just as a passenger, I’d hate to have to drive them! 4 lanes, 2 taken up of massive lorry trucks and a million motorists who think that just because they have a fancy vehicle it gives them the right to tail gate you madly and then pull manouvers even James Bond and those on Top Gear wouldn’t attempt, it’s a crazy, insane world of motoring here! We were so thankful to get back on the smaller A and B roads (2 and single lane roads) As we drove along we passed an accident where there were 2 big lorrys involved. I’m no crime scene investigator but I think I saw enough to determine that one lorry had been overtaking another and when it was pulling back into the lane, clipped it and then overturned. One lorry was for a supermarket chain and the other was… a petrol tanker. There were police everywhere and they’d set a bloody good distance between themselves and the scene! There was a median strip between us and the scene so we were able to continue with our journey and the traffic was piled up for miles and miles and miles because of this accident. Remember, there are 4 lanes of traffic and the pile up went for, without exaggeration, 10 kms or so. It was MAD!!!! So glad we were travelling in the other direction. Thankfully that was the only accident we saw, the rest of the trip was uneventful. We drove til we got peckish and we pulled over in a park and had our picnic lunch before continuing on to the north of Wales. It is B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L here in Wales, I love everything about the place, the scenery, the weather, the homes, the people even there crazy mixed up garbled language! It is just stunning here and I stand by my previous declaration of “I’d move here in a heartbeat” I’d love to run a little B&B or something, it’d be a great spot for it. Maybe one day, a girl can dream for now! We spent some time relaxing at our little bunk house called the Eagles Inn, thankfully there are only 3 other people in the whole building, a rather nice couple from Belgium and a south Londoner, so the place is nice and free to wander and there are no hassels sharing a bathroom!

After a relax and hot drink we head to the village, which is nestled in a valley and surrounded by pine forests and rushing rivers and waterfalls, completely and utterly gorgeous and just so incredibly cozy! Quick dinner and then into bed for a very well deserved rest for Chris (having driven the entire way) and a quite well deserved rest for me, navigating is a stressful job you know!

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Chris and Emily on May 5, 2009 from Llanberis, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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