It was Friday, the last day of my trip, the sun was shining and I needed some breakfast after a reasonable night’s sleep and a predictably impossible shower! I was going to find a coffee shop for breakfast, but none of them seemed to open until 10:00am so Cafe Nero came to the rescue.
These two panoramas show the length of the sea front at Llandudno. The one below is a bit of fun as my software is not up to constructing such a shot in perspective – I think there were about 14 individual images stitched together to construct it.
So on to the pier, a walk to the end, a visit to Mini Figures for presents, the tram to the summit, more gifts purchased in the shop and then a descent (somewhat scary) to Llandudno for lunch.
The observant amongst you might have noticed that Llandudno has a thing about Alice in Wonderland – not sure why, but the statues were very good. [Update: If you go back to 1861, the eight year old Alice Pleasance Liddell (the real ‘Alice’ in Wonderland) spent the first of many summer holidays in Llandudno. Her holiday home ‘Penmorfa’, was built on Llandudno’s West Shore. The Liddells were close family friends with Charles Dodgson, who wrote the books under his more famous pen-name, Lewis Carroll.]
However, I was not going to do “The Alice Trail”, my objectives for the day were to visit the pier and go up the Great Orme on the council owned Tramway. Which of course I did taking video clips of parts of my descent.
I did however make up for the previous night’s F&C experience by having excellent Cod and Chips at the Fish Tram Cafe beside the Great Orme Tramway station. What was exceptionally outstanding was the pot of tea, with ample hot water, and milk provided for £2.50. That’s a very fair price for a drink, and I think others should follow their lead.
Having started this series of posts with a horrific image of myself. It seems only fitting to end the last post (apart from the Long Journey Home), with another one of me on the top of the Great Orme which I found to be surprisingly flat.
