Lodge Life :: June 2023

Hello everyone 😀

We just managed the one visit to the lodge for June, taking mum with us for a week’s stay.

The weather forecast wasn’t looking brilliant, which was a bit frustrating as we’d had some glorious weather whilst at home. We just hoped we’d get at least a couple of nice days so we could get out and about and maybe even manage to get a swim in the pool.

After a journey with a couple of stop offs along the way, at Ironbridge and Capel Celyn, we did arrive to some lovely late afternoon sunshine and soon had all the doors wide open to let some fresh air in …

Our first full day was spent shopping and awaiting a delivery of some new furniture for the decking, which we spent the afternoon putting together …

It got warmer and warmer as the day went on and I was delighted that we were able to manage a teatime dip in the pool …

We couldn’t tempt mum in … though she was very happy dipping her toes in …

I took a couple of photos of the pond on our walk back up to our lodge … it’s established really well and was looking lovely in the evening sunshine …

You can see our lodge on the right at the top of the hill …

On Wednesday the weather forecast was good and we had a big day out to Barmouth. Mum had never been before and we’d only been the once and we really wanted to try and have a walk out onto the railway bridge.

We had a lovely day, which I will tell you more about in a separate post, but we did get to get out on the bridge which we were really pleased about …

… and it was nice enough for another swim, when we got back to the lodge.

On the Thursday we stayed a bit closer to home and wanted to show mum the beaches around the Tudweiliog area.

We started at Tywyn … only to find a real heavy sea mist was pretty much obscuring the landscape …

We had been planning for mum and I to walk the coastal path to Porth Ysgaden, where we would meet back up with Martin, but the mist put us off a bit … so we all drove.

We hadn’t planned this very well as, along with the heavy mist, the tide was in, so we didn’t get to go down onto the beach though we did have a bit of a walk to Porth y Cychod. It looked so different to the last time we’d come. In spite of the mist there were so many wildflowers … so whilst we hadn’t got to show it mum at its best it was still lovely …

By now we were all a bit fed up with the mist so headed across to south side of the peninsular for a hot chocolate at the gallery in Llanbedrog, where we finally got to see some sunshine …

… and I managed my third dip in the pool of the week.

On Friday there was plenty of rain so we had a trip to the garden centre Fron Goch, where we bought a new rose for the garden …

… and I tested out my ‘siarad Cymraeg’ in the cafe … and this meringue was stupendous …

Saturday was dull, but dry, so we headed over to Anglesey for another big day out at Plas Newydd, where we had a walk round the gardens and explored the history of the house, which I will tell you more about another time …

We finished our day off with fish and chips from our favourite chippy on the decking …

For our last full day we stayed local, with an early lunch at Caffi Ni, before getting all the cleaning and packing done, ready to head for home on Sunday morning.

We came home via Lake Vyrnwy where this time it was nice enough to make use of the picnic area …

So that was it for June. Not long till we are back though. This time for a longer break and the little man is coming to pay us a visit … I just can’t wait 😜 

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