My camping holiday in New Quay West Wales ..... [1]
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about 25 minutes to get there, on the way we passed a village called
Aberaeron and I noticed the houses were painted all the different
colours of the rainbow, its truly beautiful, compared to some of
the villages in Wales they tend to be quite dreary with there grey
pebble dash and grey slate roofs this village was such a contrast
in comparison.
Day trip to Llangrannog.....
When we arrived at Llangrannog we parked in the car park in front of the beach
- we paid £3.50
for the whole day. The chap who gave us the ticket pointed to the café at
the back of the car park and told us we could have it refunded if we bought our
lunch there – which I though was a pretty good deal. We decided to
have breakfast at the café that overlooked the beach it had a big blue
sign saying ‘Fish & Chips’ – but we wanted a full cooked
breakfast all round with a mug of tea each. I think out of all the cafs that
we went to, this place scored top for the best fry up, it cost twenty quid for
the four of us. The service was good - it seemed the proprietors were english, I
noticed the people in there were middle/ upper class sort. The type of people
who were members of the local sailing club or owned a yacht or two!
After all those carbs it was time for a workout - a bracing walk along
the hillside which overlooked the lovely beach, and what a workout it was
!, We climbed up the mountain for about an hour – stopping every
15 minutes to get our breath back, or in my case a sneeky fag! (to my daughters
dissapointment - right through the holiday she kept hiding my cigaretes and every
time I light up - I would get her lecturing me on how I was going to get more
wrinkles and die early etc.) I will give up one day though just not at this present
time.
During the walk we noticed kids surfing on a different coved beach
below. The reason why there was only a handfull of kids is because there
was about a thousand steps to get down there! The beach itself reminded
me of the film The Beach, in it you can see the beautiful beaches of Thailand
and this particular beach matched them to a T. Its like having your own private
beach with massive rocks either side. And the sea is lovely and blue, I
noticed a couple of kids pointing out to the sea when I looked over to the direction
they were pointing to I noticed a couple of sea lions bobbing up and down in
the lovely clear sea.
Llangrannog beach...
We got back to the beach a couple of hours later, God we were shattered. My
daughter went to the car and picked the blankets and towels out of it, we
put our bikinis on (apart from my father that is!) and lay in the basking sun
for the rest of the afternoon. The beach wasn’t too packed ..it had a few
surfers surfing… kids building sandcastles and a few elderly people sat
on the benches overlooking the beach. It made me think that you don’t need
to be gallivanting abroad when you have breathtaking beaches like these - providing
the sun stays out!
Holiday in New Quay West Wales >
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