Dublin to Wales via Ferry, Thursday, June 23
We headed to Holyhead, Wales via Ferry around 8 am. The shuttle dropped us off at check-in and we were instructed to stay in the waiting area until collected by the next shuttle that would take us to the ferry. While we waited, some customs agents came in with their drug-sniffing Springer Spaniels and made the dogs sniff all of our clothes and bags. It was really cute. We boarded the shuttle after being sniffed, and were off to Wales. The trip took about two and a half hours. Once we arrived, we set off toward Holyhead, collected some British pounds and started walking…
We walked for a long time. The countryside was very colorful, and there were a lot of sheep grazing in the pastures. We stopped at a beach, and then a coffee shop and decided to take a bus in to Bangor, which is a small college town that has come to be known as the “Athens of Wales”.
On our way across the Menai Bridge, which brought us into the city of Bangor, there was a long strand of bras…they were hung like a banner across the bridge. Click the link to see why there were there…
Bridge of Bras:
The city of Bangor:
We spent a few hours in Bangor and decided to take the bus to Bethesda, which borders Snowdonia National Park. We were told by some ladies at the café in Holyhead that we would be able to hike around the park, and take a mining train up to the top of one of the mountains.
Bethesda was a very small town, and we ended up having to walk a mile up a steep hill to our hotel.
We didn’t realize the bus would have taken us there. The busses go everywhere here, by the way. And they are cheap. A Red Rover pass gives you unlimited access to the busses from the time of purchase to midnight of that day. The cost is only £5.40. Once we got to our hotel we were hungry and tired. We walked back down the steep hill to the center of town, ate dinner at a local pub and then walked back up the steep hill, got to our room, and called it a night. It was a long day of traveling!
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