As we were leaving New Quay to continue northwards we had an unexpected hitchhiker…..

Driving north we stopped off for a visit to the National Trust property at Llanerchaeron, an elegant Georgian villa, designed by architect John Nash in 1790 (he later went on to design many famous buildings including Buckingham Palace!). The building, essentially a very upmarket farmhouse, has remained largely unaltered for over 200 years. In the car park we ended up next to a motorhome clearly much better equipped for Welsh mountain climbing than ours!

We continued to Aberystwyth for some supermarket shopping and then on into the Snowdonia Nationa Park. We stopped for one night at the CMC’s Swn-y-nant CL, to the west of Dolgellau. This proved to be an excellent site to which would certainly like to return. The facilities, for a CL, are very good and include hardstanding, wifi and even TV hookup. A walk from the site led directly into the Abergwynant Woods, managed by the park authorities, and beyond that the Mawddach Trail, a very popular walking & cycling route along both sides of the Mawddach estuary which stretches from Barmouth to Dolgellau.