Some Spring Sunshine ☀️

Hi there everyone 😀

Saturday, 2 March was the first full day of our first visit to our lodge in North Wales for the 2024 season and, surprisingly, we were up early and greeted with a lovely bright and sunny day so we decided to make the most of it … starting out by heading to Trefor for a short walk along the beach.

I think Trefor was the first place we visited after we’d took ownership of the lodge a couple of years ago, and it’s somewhere we usually try and take any visitors. There’s not a lot there but we really like it. It’s just a tiny harbour area and beach … backed by the mountains … with fabulous views over to Anglesey. It always really feels really tranquil and mindful.

It’s usually nice and quiet and this time was no exception. We parked up by the harbour wall and headed up towards the beach …

We went left first … following the footpath alongside the beach … spotting some llamas … which we’d never noticed before …

No amount of calling or whistling was working in getting them to come any closer so we carried on to take in the views in all directions …

We didn’t walk far … just up to the kissing gate, where the path heads up and over the cliffs …

We then headed back getting to enjoy the views in the other direction … along the coast towards Caernarfon …

We walked out along the outer side of the harbour wall … before making our way back down the steps and alongside the more sheltered side of the wall …

I walked back along the road towards the car park to capture some pictures of the boats …

After leaving Trefor we went on a bit of a magical mystery tour. I was on the hunt for good views of mountains with snow on the top … with a blue sky background. Well it took a while but I was very happy with what I ended up with …

By now we were almost back in Porthmadog so decided to have a ride through Tremadog, somewhere we’d passed lots of times but never stopped. There wasn’t an awful lot there but it was a pretty little village with plenty of pubs and a very picturesque church …

From Tremadog we headed for another place new to us … Tan y Bwlch railway station … which was a real treat …

… and the tea room had just opened for the season so we had to pay a visit …

We’d had a lovely day … a nice walk … a lovely drive … seen some new places and discovered a new tea room 😀. 

One of the reasons we chose to buy our lodge over this way was because the area has just got everything and in just one day we’d seen the coast, the mountains and the steam railway. If we’d managed to throw in a castle we’d have had a full house 😜

We made our way back to the lodge via Criccieth where I had one last stop to capture one of the new spring post box toppers … which always raise a smile …

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