Snowdonia, North Wales - 24th to 28th of December 2009

After grabbing some pressies, some santa hats and plenty of warm clothes we picked up our rental car and our mates early on the 24th and jumped on the motorways for our trip north west to Wales. The further we got away from London, the prettier the roads, with some spectacular sights once we left the motorways. About 6 hours later we made it to our little cottage in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Thanks to a lack of central heating, our cottage was FREEZING, so we were up early Christmas morning to stoke the fire. We miss having a fireplace, so was nice and romantic snuggling up in front of it for a few days.

After an awesome Christmas breaky, we went for a little walk to see some of the countryside around Blaenau.

Boxing day ended up being a tour of the castles of northwest wales. First up Harlech Castle.

Caernafon:

View of the countryside from the Isle of Anglesey:

Beaumaris Castle:

...and finally Conwy Castle:

The 27th we decided to go for a bit of a wander. Braving the cold we found a nice circuit to do, up and over and through a valley to a nice little pub and around along a river back to the car. Well that was the plan anyway, turns out we cant follow directions very well and the path we were on seemed to disappear, so we had to turnaround and go back the way we came. Still, some spectacular scenery:

And that was the end of our little Christmas trip to Wales. Back through some more amazing scenery to London on the 28th: