Lodge Life :: December 2023

Hi there everyone 😀

After our two week visit in November we hadn’t really been planning on visiting the lodge again until the New Year, but we’d had a particularly cold snap, so decided to head over for a few days just to check everything was ok ahead of our New Year visit.

As we were only there for a couple of days we didn’t really do much, though we did stop at Attingham Park on the way to take in their Christmas trees …

As well as checking everything over we did manage to have a day over on Anglesey, with a drive down to Penmon …

… where we warmed up with lunch of pizza and loaded fries in the Pilot Cafe …

We then had a breezy walk on the lovely quiet pier in Beaumaris, before heading back for a bit of lodge warmth …

It actually ended up being a nice short break away

We were back on the 28th ready for our first New Year at the lodge, with Jackie and Phil joining us on the 29th.

Martin and I were full of cold so got well stocked up with every cold remedy under the sun and tried to make the best of our time away.

Though the weather was very changeable we managed a lovely day out in Bangor … visiting Penrhyn Castle to see their Christmas trees …

… followed by a very breezy walk along the pier, with a bacon sandwich stop and a bit of caching thrown in …

On New Year’s Eve we spent the day bimbling around Criccieth … taking in the rest of the yarn bombing …

… before hunkering down with a nice dinner, Rick Astley and the fireworks on the Thames.

We spent a lazy New Year’s Day … Martin and I were really struggling cold wise and I can’t even remember what we did 🙈

Jackie and Phil headed for home on the 2nd and Martin and I didn’t really do anything or go anywhere until we came home on the 7th … still full of cold. 

Though we did get to catch a pretty spectacular sunset …

Not quite the start to the New Year we were hoping for … though it had been lovely to spend it at the lodge 

🙈🙈🙈

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