Mick & Lyn's overseas adventure 2013: Sunday 7 July 2013. Overton, Llandudno

“He did it.” is echoing across the airwaves over here since Andy Murray the local boy (well he is a Scot but don’t let that spoil a good story) took out the Wimbledon Gentleman’s Singles Title and a cool £1.6 million. The loser pocketed a measly £800,000.

Another hot day forecast for today, and Geoff had us up early to go to Llandudno in North Wales.

We finally got away at 9am after dealing with an injured Jackdaw which appeared to have been attacked apparently by other Jackdaws. Mick checked it out and its wings appeared to work OK so as we were going out for the day a neighbour took it home to care for it.

We eventually got going and it took about 90 minutes to get there. When we arrived we drove up to The Great Orme (or Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth in Welsh) a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales. The road up to the top is another one of those challenging, winding and steep climbs but it was well worth the trip.

At the top there are great views of Anglesey and Llandudno itself. Unfortunately we had one of those strange weather days again with strange mists and haze hanging around making the view of distant objects difficult and impossible to photograph properly.

After a cup of tea and a cake we took some photos and headed back down to the town stopping halfway down for Davina and Mick to explore a copper mine.

Copper has been mined there for 4,000 years and the site is the only Bronze Age copper mine open to the public in the world. There is a visitor centre there with displays depicting life and times in the Bronze Age together with archaeological finds and artifacts.

When we eventually arrived at sea level again we looked for somewhere on the sea front to park the car (you'll be lucky). After driving around for a while we found a spot in the grounds of the local church complete with ticket dispensing machine.

After looking around some of the shops we went to a local restaurant and had some of the local fish and chips before going for a walk to the end of the pier. We sat on one of the seats on the pier watching the huge variety of people passing by. One thing we have noticed is that it appears to us that smoking is much more common in the UK than it now is in Australia.

The weather seemed to cool whilst we were there and we noticed strange mists floating around. Mick said it was a sea fret. He said it was a wet mist or haze coming inland from the sea.

Lyn was messaging our son at the time and asked him what he thought a fret was and his answer was: A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument!

Anyway it certainly dropped the temperature as when we left the coast, it warmed up quite a bit.

On the way home we stopped at Betws-y-Coed, a lovely village in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales in the Snowdonia National Park. What a beautiful spot.

It was then off home to watch the German Formula One Grand Prix.

It was a very warm day today with no wind. All the wind turbines across the country were not turning.

Checkout the temperatures forecast for tomorrow below.