Due to the fog of time, this diary will not follow the same format as my other diaries, I will just be putting down the basic information I have at this time.

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Wales 2008

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I am not sure of timings for this holiday, I didn’t do a diary, so I am recounting our week away from photos taken at the time.

You will see in some photos, I am not wearing my glasses, I had started to use contact lenses in stead of using my glasses. I eventually gave them up, as I couldn’t get on with them.

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12/07/2008

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Saturday 12th July, Andy, Ray, Len (Rays’ brother) and I set off for a week in North Wales. This would be the 1st time Len had been with the three of us to Wales. We all piled into my Hyundai Trajet people carrier, loads of room for the four of us and our gear. My camera at this time was a Fujifilm FinePix 6900Zoom bridge camera. It served me well at the time, but with the memory cards only being 128mb and the camera was only 3.3 megapixels, my photos were never going to be anything special (some might say my photos are still nothing special… they may be right, but I like the ones I post on here). Some of the photos I will post for this Wales adventure are a mix of mine and the rest of the group.

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We were staying at Dyfnia Bach (our home from home), on the outskirts of Llanfair PG. We did our normal 1st day things like settling into the cottage, going to Tesco’s in Bangor to stock up on supplies (like previous years, a lot of alcohol was purchased… you would think we might have learnt our lesson from previous years that alcohol and physical exertion don’t mix… but hey ho it was a holiday for relaxation as much as it was to get out and do the physical exertion stuff). Once we had settled in and done the supply run, we just chilled out for the rest of the day.

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13/07/2008

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South Stack Lighthouse

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Our 1st excursion out was to South Stack Lighthouse to the West of Holyhead, Andy, Ray and I had been here before, it was Len’s 1st visit. It is a lovely place to visit, and the views are fantastic. In all our visits, we have never ventured down the steps to the lighthouse itself.

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The weather was gorgeous, hardly a cloud in the sky, but we could see Snowdonia had a layer of cloud just over the mountain tops. Once parked up, we headed down the track leading to the cliff edge, taking photos as we went. We also took time out to just sit and take in the views and loose our selves in our own thoughts. I feel blessed when I am away with these friends, because it’s not all about having to do this or do that, you can take your time, if you want to just sit down and reflect on things, they seem to sense this and let you get on with it, but there is still the sense of companionship, there are the times we are just fooling around taking the mickey out of each other (to a certain extent it reminds me of being in the army, the ability one minute to be taking the mickey, the next they are there to support you). Len being the newest member of the group seemed to just get it straight away, I have a great photo of him sat not far from the cliff edge lost in his own thoughts.

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We spent a few hours at the lighthouse before heading back to the cottage.