A full day on Anglesey

Today, we've decided to drive around Angelsey. We sort of had the impression that this would take about half a day. We set out late (by our standards) - at 10am. We crossed the Menai Bridge and then parked up and walked back over it. It's a bit overcast this morning.


We drove to llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longest place name in the world (and yes, I googled it and then cut and pasted the name). Well we had to get the tourist photo! Actually I was too lazy to get out of the car so the photo is pretty awful!


Then we moved on to Foel on the south of the island. We could see over the Menai Strait to Caenarfon from here. A lovely smell like lavendar wafts through the car every now and then but I have no idea where it is coming from.


We followed the coast road as far as possible, stopping at a beautiful secluded bay just after Treaddur on Holy Island to eat lunch. Then we stumbled across South Stack - sea cliffs with a dramatic outlook and a lighthouse on a cliff with thousands of birds. I couldn't tell what they all were but apparently there are some rare breeds here.













The weather by now was fantastic, albeit windy on the cliff. Next we drove round to the top of the island and stopped at two tiny but lovely harbours - Carnaes and Moelfre. We bypassed Amlwch - even though it is in the guide books it didn't look that great.










Quick stop off at Benllech Bay (where we'd visited as children) and then the drive down to Beaumaris. We were amazed to find that we didn't hit Beaumaris until 5pm. What a gorgeous place. Strolled about (shame that the shops weren't open) and then headed back to the Britannia Bridge and home.









We were out early tonight, as we had tickets for a concert in the Trinity Church in Llandudno. So we decided to get fish and chips and eat them on the West Shore - great idea, apart from the swans and seagulls wanting our food, too. The concert was awful. 50+ year old women with 1980's hairdos and glasses trying to be Roxy Hart!

We left at the interval. Unfortunately we were not the only ones. Came home and ate chocolate instead of hearing Act 2.