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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Gwynedd » Beddgelert March 27th 2012

All the best laid plans of mice and men - this comes from some poem or other and it sums up the way our weekend turned out. We had planned to go north to Northumberland and visit Beamish with its old fashioned village where you can still use pre-decimal halfpennies, pennies, threepences and tanners to buy old fashioned fish and chips and sweets and travel on old tram:, to Alnwick castle and gardens; to Rothbury and Cragside the home of Armstrong and to Lindisfarne and its serene beauty. However things didnt quite work out right. I had thought I would be on strike from work and have an extra day holiday but this was cancelled last minute and it left us with only three days to play with. Northumberland would have to wait. We had been ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Gwynedd » Beddgelert March 22nd 2008

Geo: 53.0118, -4.0994A short drive from Tremadog (our hostel) we arrived in Beddgelert. From here the guy from the hostel said there was a nice, easy and picturesque walk. We started our walk along the river and then when we should have turned back, we decided to keep going. A few hours later we arrived back in town- drenched because of the down pours we got stuck in. All good fun. A bit of history about the town.... "In the 13th century Llewelyn Prince of North Wales had a palace here. One day he went hunting and left his dog Gelert behind. When he returned his dog greeted him, but it had blood around its mouth. The prince ran to his son's cot and saw that it was empty but covered in blood. He plunged his ... read more
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