http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , Wales , Snowdon en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:47 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:47 UTC We were definitely in Wales when the bitterly cold wind hit us as soon as I opened the car door I went to Snowdonia North Wales over the halfterm with my brothers and my dad for several nice...yet toughhellip mountain walks. It is probably the fourth time being there and we decided to try Mt. Snowdon for the second time this time the mountain even ourselves coated in snow. It was fantast http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-345621.html FINALLY I am about to tour a bit of the country I will be living in the next couple of months. I am very excited to see Wales and Irsquoll be very honest I do not know much about it considering I am studying here. I was happy to know where in the UK itrsquos located before I left pretty sure Tecwyn will make sure we know a lot more than that before we leave. The best way to learn is to go v http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-345400.html Wales is still nice weather still isnt. Drove down through Snowdonia and through Prembrokeshire. Lots of slate mountains. Stayed in Fishguard last night just about to catch the ferry to Ireland. Hope to catch a lepruchuan. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-344685.html Friday night after work I met up with Vicki her brother and his mate and we all jumped in a tiny corolla and headed for Northern Wales to do some hiking for the weekend. I had met Vicki in Pai Northern Thailand and we did a 3 day trek and just chilled out for around a week doing nothing as is the normal in Pai. Her brother is a dead keen hiker and having graduated from boys scouts a long time ag http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-336947.html One thing I'm getting really good at is last minute unplanned trips. Earlier in the week Chuck and I had a brief thought of going to Wales and it wasn't brought up again until Friday Midmorning and that evening we took off. Had one of Chuck's friends Alan join us as well. This guy finds out about the trip only an hour or so before we leave and still managed to get everything ready to go and http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-328671.html Another little detour before the big onewhich by the way we are assured by all concerned is stilll happening and we will be in a safe area and looked after. Sothis time a little trip for Jane and some 'old' friends to visit a lovely part of Wales and stay with another 'younger' friend at her B and BBryn Elltyd Blaenau Ffestiniog.We had a great time and it didn't rainthe sun shone and we we http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-327140.html NAME YEO MYEONG.20087.25FriWe are going to wales and we ate sandwich and some fruit. For lunch it was delicious but cold. We ride Kevinrsquo father car. Our camping field is dirty with too many cow poos and flies. Jina and I didnrsquot make our tent because Tiem helped make it. Next we ate dinner we eat dinner of hot dog and bread. The weather was sunny and windy. Our toilet was very scar http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-306457.html Vse zacalo v patek uplne v pohode ... pujceni auticka nakup potravin a cekani na Radku s Milankem kteri dosedli na Lutonu s par minutami zpozdeni ale presto nestihli bus do Bham. A tak prijeli az o pul druhe. Nicmene jsme jeste na par hodin natahli kostry a rano v pohode vyrazili smer Cymru walessky Wales ... SobotaVse slo hladce az do chvile kdy nam za Telfordem palubni pocitac ukazal ze d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-305709.html It's easy they said. There were girls doing it in flip flops they said.Apparently the 3 hour trek up Mt Snowdon in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd Northern Wales is a piece of cake. Except if you're me.My roomates in Caernarfon told me it would be easy though it would take about 5 hours up and back. Okay thought I I'll set off early do the trek and chill out in Caernarfon for th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-286093.html I'm in Dublin at the moment having come from Caernarfon pronouced Carnarvon in the northern Welsh county of Gwynedd. For those of you playing at home Caernarfon is on the west coast of mainland Wales just across the passage from the Isle of Anglesey. Anglesey is joined to mainland Wales by a bridge and historically significant as it was the Druids last stronghold in the fight against the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-285085.html First visit to Wales to climb Snowdon our second of the UK 3 peaks after completing Scafell pike last September. Weather was a bit rough but we were determined to do it after not being able to complete Ben Nevis in March due to too much snow and ice.There was still little patches of snow up the top and the walk up the miners path was super past two lakes I could imagine in summer it would b http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-272488.html We have officially commenced a career of hiking...None of this pussyfooting around straight to the big guns for us To Snowden and beyond It was with such enthusiasm we headed to Wales for a weekend in the glorious Snowdonia National Park. It was a last minute decision reallya product of a 5day weekend thanks to Easter and our mutual employers' policies of an aditional 'Easter Tuesday' holi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-265478.html Over the weekend I traveled to Snowdonia with the Aber Expeditions Club. Snowdonia is a region of north Wales and home to the tallest mountain in all of England and Wales Snowdon. Coming in at 1085 ft. itrsquos no monster but still a good climb. Irsquove always really enjoyed hiking or climbing in new places. Therersquos something about going over a new terrain that brings you closer http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-249869.html Today we had our first field trip for the required class I'm taking Introduction to Welsh Culture. First we took a bus just 8 miles from Bangor to Caernarfon pronounced cairNARvun Castle the largest Norman castle in the world. It was still in really good shape so we were able to go inside and walk through all the dark tunnels and dungeons and climb most of the towers. It was amazing and http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-238110.html On Sunday we got an extra hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings time We ate another carbfilled breakfast in hopes that we would be climbing Mount Snowdon or Yr Wyddfa as it is called in Welsh. If the clouds were going to be low and obscuring the view or the path there really was no point in climbing. In that case we were going to visit Penrhyn Castle. 7 of us really wanted to climb the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-215061.html SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK NORTH WALESBack from Brazil staying over at friends' places Celso and Alex. Ana was in London for the last bit of her holiday and was brave enough to be the very first pillion passanger in my new VFR I forgot to take the padlock off and we both fell with the bike. Ana had to help me lift the bike so that my left foot could be freed from under the weight. Had I broke a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-204273.html Whoever it was that built Wales deserves a huge pat on the back the natural beauty here is so astounding you are at a loss as to know what to point your camera at next.... Every country we have been to so far has its little quirks for instance the way the Italians completely disregard the road rules yet manage to avoid the catastrophic accidents which you would think would be around every http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-202033.html Helo again apologies that these are both being written on the same dayhaving way too much funTuesday began the big welsh roadtrip to North Wales. Daf had it all figured out and we packed into his blue vauxhall and headed north. Starting early 8a.m. I know Dad it's hard to believe I rose that early we drove to Machynlleth where we paused for beautiful photos of the estuary out to sea. Nex http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-201737.html Hi EveryoneJust a quick entry hopefully you will see some pictures too if I've managed the technical bit.Well we have been in Barmouth and Shell Island the largest campsite in Europe for a few days testing Konny. Everything seems to be working fine two nights in Shell Island with no electric hook up but right on the beach and then a night in Barmouth with hook up every electrical d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-189400.html Dear Family and FriendsHappy 4th of July We will miss the fireworks this year but I can assure you there would be no fire danger here were there to be any rockets red glare. I truly cannot remember ever seeing this much rain so consistently in my life. Today was actually the worst day we have had as the rain was more torrential the wind blew and I don't believe the temperature reached much http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-177202.html There is nothing like your little brother turning 30 to make you feel old. Luckily this is not a blog about me but about my brotherrsquos 30th birthday bash so you are spared any lsquopoor mersquo rant. To celebrate my brother entering his fourth decade OK that IS scary he organised a camping adventure in Wales. The guest list was limited to the elite only 8 made the cut. Six of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-176938.html Everything I saw from June 7th and 8th is impossible to capture in words or even pictures. Everything was so beautiful and you really have to see it to take in everything. My pictures do not do it justice. After a very long train trip which I slept most of the way through I arrived in Holyhead. The train did stop in Bangor about halfway between Holyhead and Shrewsbury and apparently Prince Cha http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-168543.html It has been quite an eventful 48 hours. Arrived in Phoenix on the evening of the 9th. I literally went from graduation to the airport. Once in Phoenix we promptly went to bed. I wanted to sleep on the floor but Logan insisted I sleep in his bed. I obliged. Woke up at 5 the next morning and headed off to the airport. We had to catch a connecting flight in Philadelphia and from there we had to http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-168456.html Hooray for the summer long light evenings and warm temperatures. This has afforded many fabulous mountain biking adventures into the llandegla forest in north wales after work as well as some exciting hiking weekends. Snowdonia National Park is only about 1 and a half hours away so very quick to sneak off for a nice weekend. In fact summiting Snowdon from various angles seems to have becom http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-129818.html A chilly trip to Cardiff to support the Wallabies November 2005We were very excited to manage to get tickets to watch the Wallabies take on Wales at the atmospheric Millennium Stadium. We boarded a bus in London Victoria and three hours later arrived in a freezing cold Cardiff already been overtaken by a sea of green and gold jerseys. The cold snap had begun in the United Kingdom and there was a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-115253.html ldquoJust a bit furtherhellip.rdquoldquoWersquoll go back when it gets to be too muchhellip.rdquoldquoWersquoll kick ourselves if we turn back nowhellip.rdquoThatrsquos how our accidental ascent of Snowdon came about oWersquove climbed Snowdon before using the Miners and Pyg tracks which start from a conveniently high point in the Llanberis pass. And wersquove wal http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-89315.html The last weekend before my dreaded foot operation was forcast to be hot and sunny. Not wishing to waste a moment we decided to shoot of to Snowdonia on Friday afternoon for the weekend.As soon as we'd set up camp we set off for a short walk. The road near the campsite gives good views of Mount Snowdon and was ideal for a late afternoon walk.Saturday dawned hot and sunny so we headed off to the bea http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Snowdon/blog-86072.html