Today after saying farewell
to our hosts, we left Llanwrtyd Wells and headed to Aberystwyth, Wales on the
west coast. Country Wales
must be one of the prettiest places to drive in the world.
The smooth roads sweep
through countryside made up of huge hills some covered in trees and others with
grass and deep valleys with streams of crystal clear water. Grazing animals,
mainly sheep are everywhere.
Some of the sheep graze on
ridiculously steep hillsides like goats. One wrong step and they would be
history.
When we arrived in
Aberystwyth we went to the Kwik Fit tyre shop to get the puncture fixed. They
found a pin hole in the side of the tyre which was not repairable so replaced
the tyre.
We then went to our hotel
which was just around the corner. We had booked a flash hotel because it had
32” flat screen LCD TV’s so we could watch the Motogp race and the Formula 1
qualifying followed by the tennis.
After watching the Motogp and
F1 we watched Bernard Tomic play and beat Richard Gasquet in the tennis, c’mon
Aussie. Then we watched Sam Stosur blow it in her match.
Before dinner we went for a
drive around the town and down to the sea. We found many motor homes parked on
the sea front and stopped to chat with some of the campers. They are allowed to
park there for free and stay overnight.
The beach was made up of
large stones and had no sand at all and it was very cold down there so we
decided to try again tomorrow hoping the weather would be better. A pity as the
day had started off quite warm but became cooler as we reached the coast.
So if you were watching the tennis and thought the sun was shining in all of England that is not correct.
If you think the pictures look a bit dull you'd be right. They match the weather.
The Aberystwyth Park Lodge - our hotel
The green car is a Peugeot 307 the same model car as we have hired. There didn't appear to be anything wrong with it until this bloke put another car on top of it on the tilt truck
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