Posted in Landscapes/Nature, tagged afon conwy, afon llugwy, betws-y-coed, bridges, capel curig, floods, north wales, pont-y-pair on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a bloody awful summer, in fact summer was in May! Since then we have had only ocassional good days, and I believe August was the wettest on record. Well now we’re into September and we have just hadÂ
36 hours of rain, a lot of it heavy. It rained all day yesterday, all night [...]
Posted in Landscapes/Nature, tagged betws-y-coed, bridges, lakes, north wales, rivers, roman road, streams, woodland on August 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I was starting in Betws-y-Coed (pronounced “bet us i co ed”). This lovely village is a popular with tourists to Snowdonia, the name means Prayer house (Betws) in the woods (y Coed).
My walk started behind St Marys church, a forestry track leading up the steep wooded hillside.
A stream tumbled down the hillside by the [...]
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