06th September 2015
South Stack Lighthouse
I woke up at around 05:30am, unable to get back to sleep, so I made myself a coffee and just relaxed on the sofa, while Andy & James slept. I took a walk up the slope in the back garden to see what the weather looked like over the mainland; it was just as cloudy as it was here.
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At around 08:30 Andy got up. I made us both a cup of spicy Chai. I went up the slope again to get a signal on my phone, to see if Susie had sent me a text, but not yet! Andy started to cook breakfast!
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As the weather was over cast today, we decided to go to South Stack Lighthouse on Holyhead. In 2008 Andy, Ray, Len and I visited this lighthouse; the weather was a lot better than it was today! So we left the cottage at around 11:00, arriving at the car park by the cafe/ticket office around 11:30. We walked up the road to just above the lighthouse. After taking some photos we headed down a track which leads to the RSPB building near the cliffs, from here we took some more photos. I managed to get a couple of photos of a seal swimming below in the distance. From here we followed the cliff top path a short way past the RSPB building to take some photos towards mainland Wales.
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While James was still taking some photos, Andy and I headed up another path to the cafe, I treated us to a coffee and a cake each; we went and sat outside to watch the world go by, while waiting for James to meet up with us. We kept a look out for James to come up the track we had come up, but he suddenly appeared from a different direction. He had retraced the route we had taken to get down to the RSPB building. I gave James some money to get himself a drink and piece of cake; we carried on chatting and watching the world go by. We left at around 14:45, and called into ASDA on our way back to the cottage for some ingredients for tonight’s meal. We arrived back at the cottage around 15:30, where Andy started to prepare tonight’s meal, which is to be roast garlic lamb with dauphinoise potatoes, peas and cauliflower, with red wine gravy, I had bought a bottle of red wine to accompany this meal called Echo Falls fruit fusion with raspberry and cassis, which I had tried before but Andy hadn't, he said it was like alcoholic vimto. We had this lovely meal round 19:30. After which I washed up and James dried up.
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This is about the time my day went wrong! I could feel a lurking headache coming on! I straight away took a couple of paracetamol, I made my excuses and went straight to bed, and it was around 21:00 at this point! I woke up around 00:30 with a more intense pain, no matter where I lay my head, I was not comfortable! Eventually, at about 01:15 I had to get up and take more pain relief. I went back to bed, and after about an hour I fell asleep!
A seal swimming below the cliffs of South Stack lighthouse.