Aaaah, the joy of a long weekend! Fatboy, Camel and Squeezy (Craig, Alice and Cathy) and I drove up to the north of Wales for four days of eating, riding, resting, drinking, climbing and talking. Good Friday was spent taking the long way up to Wales via the coastal road. We stopped in a little town for fish and chips on the way and arrived at out destination of Bala in the arvo. We'd booked at the last minute at Bala Backpackers which was a nice hostel run by a crazy lady called Stella. I'm not sure what freaked us out more - that she had her own glamour photography shots displayed on the wall, or that she had photos of her father's funeral up in the foyer or if it was the the seven thousand
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