Llandudno; Monday, 01 July, 2013

After a late breakfast and checkout I headed out into a clammy damp mistiness that had enveloped Llandudno.

I had intended on taking the cable car up to the Great Orme, as it hadn’t been running the previous day due to the winds, but it looked as though the winds on the top were still pretty strong as everything was shut up.

Instead I had a bit of a wander in the area around the cable car station – Happy Valley, before heading back into town to pick up a bus.

As the day was looking pretty grim, I decided I’d just do some sightseeing from the comfort of a bus seat, so hopped on the bus in Caernarfon.

From Caernarfon I picked up the bus out to Llanberis at the foot of Snowdon, which was shrouded in a very heavy mist, and picked up the Snowdon Sherpa service there.

The Sherpa buses run throughout the Snowdonia national park, linking together key walking sites, but along the way offering stunning views of the park and the various peaks. The bus I picked up visited Pen-y-Pass and Capel Curig before dropping me off in Betwys-Y-Coed.

I had a bit of a wander around Betws-Y-Coed, but then it was time to pick up the bus back over to Llandudno to start making my way home.

If my outward journey had been fraught, I feared the same might be happening to this leg as the bus was a couple of minutes late arriving, and then after only about 5 minutes of its journey it pulled into the forecourt of a local petrol station to top the tank up.

In the end, I managed to get back to Llandudno grab my bags and get to the railway station just in time to make the train to Llandudno Junction, and the connection on to Birmingham.