There's a sheep theme to this holiday. The hotel had sheep in the field behind me and thanks to being totally wired on steroids I spent a lot of time trying to sleep and listening to BAAing from the field. A nicely soothing noise and it was fresh and clean air, not a hot hotel thank heavens.
We walked to Llangollen, through a lovely wooded valley and along a limestone scree escarpment path and lumped up a hillside to Dinas Bran, with glorious views and a blowing a hooley breeze. It's a knocked down and about castle, which a recent TV programme tried to associate with King Arthur. It was probably one of the worst history programmes I've seen so no idea if Arthur actually existed or is still a mythical figure! Welsh ice cream and a well deserved cuppa followed in Llangollen. It's always weird getting into civilisation after a day out walking. Pontcysyllte aqueduct the next day was my own personal holiday highlight. It was a really nice dry day, we had an hour to explore the canal basin, with good sculpture and moored boats and somewhere dry for once for our picnic. Oh and a shop that sold kit kats. Steroid hunger. I jumped on the scales after the holiday and regretted the nice hotel food...oh dear.
And then I found this sheep!! Walking the acqueduct is very exciting due to the canal boats driving alongside you and the height as you look down to the river below. So tall, so imposing yet walking along the narrow path, I didn't get any sense of height or drop, unlike the glass floor in the tower at Stratford on Avon theatre!
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