Betws-y-Coed, Caernarfon and Holyhead

Wales, United Kingdom 2016
P001 Saturday 6/18 (tour day 6) morning, some 40 minutes heading west-south after leaving the Liverpool hotel and crossed the England border, continuing our journey...
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P002 ... some of the 160 wind turbines in Irish Sea - Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, the second biggest offshore wind farm in the world covering an area of 31...
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P004 North Wales, the northernmost unofficial region of Wales traditionally divided into three regions: Upper Gwynedd defined as the area north of the River Dyfi (in...
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P005 ... popular areas of North Wales today include Llandudno and Colwyn Bay (loved by the Victorians and Edwardians that they called Llandudno the Queen of the...
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P006 ... beautiful scenery along the A470 road - River Conwy and the Carneddau mountain range in Snowdonia as background, foreground being the Snowdonia Nurseries...
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P007 River Conwy, a little over 27 miles long rising on the Migneint moor in central Snowdonia where a number of small streams flow into Llyn (lake) Conwy, then...
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P008 ... nice vacation cottage along A470 Ffordd yr Orsaf Station Road at north Llanrwst...
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P008a-009 Llanrwst, a historic small town and community on the A470 road and the River Conwy in Conwy County Borough - deep in the Conwy Valley, at the edge of the...
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P010-012 ... Tu Hwnt i’r Bont (Beyond the Bridge) in the Trefriw community of Conwy county situated on the west bank of the flowing River Conwy across Pont Fawr from the...
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P011 ... Pont Fawr (Y Bont Fawr) built of roughly coursed local slate and gritstone rubble, the steeply ramped Llanrwst Bridge, with its three segmental arches and...
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P014-223 ... a postcard of Wales (Cymru in Welsh) - recognize the setting? ( Llanrwst, River Conwy-Pont Fawr-Tu Hwnt i’r Bont) - Y Ddraig Goch/the Red Dragon has long...
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P015-087 ... at the junction of A470 and A5 - Llanrwst is 4 miles to the north on the east bank of River Conwy - we're heading west-north on A5 for less than a mile to...
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P020-088 Betws-y-Coed (meaning Prayer house in the woods), one of today's honeypot locations in Snowdonia region/Snowdonia National Park, situated in a valley where the...
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P021-015 ... Snowdonia National Park established in 1951 covering some 820 square miles lying partly in the county of Gwynedd and partly in Conwy county borough, most of...
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P022-089 ... Betws-y-Coed, an important tourist village with the railway station centrally located beside the large village green where afon Llugwy flowing through the...
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P023-090 ... see this directory post showing the nearby Conwy Falls located in the last gorge section of the river Conwy at a point where it plunges 50 feet into a deep...
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P024-014 ... Betws-y-Coed Railway Station, a passenger station on the 27 miles Conwy Valley Line running from Llandudno via Llandudno Junction in the north to the...
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P025-013 ... Conwy Valley Railway Shop & Museum established in early 1970s located at Betws-y-Coed Railway Station on the site of the old railway goods yard - it's said...
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P026-012 ... reached from the station, the museum starting with a former standard gauge railway carriage which today being a licensed buffet-restaurant car; the current...
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