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 had 36 hours of rain, a lot of it heavy. It rained all day yesterday, all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bridges’
Why doesn’t the rain stay on the plain in Spain?
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 | 1 Comment »
Woodlands and water around Betws-y-Coed
Posted in Landscapes/Nature, tagged betws-y-coed, bridges, lakes, north wales, rivers, roman road, streams, woodland on August 21, 2008 | 6 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 [...]






