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Menai & Llanfair-gogogoch
Our site for the duration of our holiday in North Wales was located just a few miles outside Menai on the road to Pentraeth. An ideal site for touring both in Anglesey and the North Wales coast. The site is a Certificated Location a CL run under the control of the Caravan Club. It was a nice, reasonably level site with the bonus of each pitch having its own electrics, water supply and waste point. Having your own water point is a god send as it means you never run out, that is if you have the float attachment for the Aquaroll. Being so close to Menai meant that we could pop in to take pictures of the suspension bridge which we did one evening, as well as stopping on our way back fron Caernarvon in a conveniently placed layby along side the Menai straits.
Above:The first two pictures taken on our evening visit, where we walked on to the bridge and then later went into Menai to take pictures of the bridge from water level. The third picture taken from the layby on our return one evening from Caernarvon. The sun just setting, was shining on the bridge.
As well as being convenient for Menai the site was also handy for another well known landmark which Ben in particular wanted to visit. Pam and I had been to it before, Pam as recently as 2016 on a "Skills" coach tour with the Derby girls. The landmark, non other than, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantsiliogogogoch. Translated to "The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tysilio by the red cave". As always with this place, it was teeming with visitors of all nationalities, most thankfully making for James Pringles shop to buy souvenirs of their visit. We headed for the train station to get our pictures taken against the station name on the platform. Whilst there a Welsh man who was driving a number of oriental visitors around in a minibus, agreed, somewhat relunctantly, to pronounce the name, whilst they recorded him doing so, on various phones and cameras. It is quite a mouth full and who knows if he was saying it right or not. The visitors, were immensely pleased and that was all that matters. With a couple of the coach partys having left we ventured into the shop to pick up a couple of souvenirs.
Above: A souvenir platform ticket, purchased not at the station, which appeared un-manned, but from the James Pringle shop. Next, the name on the station platform and finally Pam & I emerging from the James Pringle shop, which inevitably has the name over the entrance.