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Short tour in Wales (advice request)

  • 03-01-2010 8:50pm
    #1
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    We're currently planning this summer's short tour.

    The current idea is to cycle from Dublin to Rosslare, get the ferry across to Fishguard and then cycle up through Snowdonia to Holyhead and then the ferry back to Dublin.

    We're thinking of a five or six night tour.

    Last Autumn we cycled the four compass points of Ireland (thanks to Boardsies for help with the planning there!).

    Any thoughts/ experiences/ advice/ etc. would be appreciated.

    We're not the most serious cyclists in the world (very much an understatement), but we're happy to trundle along at 150km a day and have a pint in the evening.

    Thanks,

    DFD.


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  • #2
    brayblue24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭brayblue24


    A group of us from work climbed Mount Snowdon a couple of years ago. There is a town called Beddgelert, which is in the National Park and will probably be on your route, but while it's very nice accommodation it's not cheap. With that in mind we went a few miles further north to a village called Rhyd Ddu. Cheaper accommodation and plenty of pints in the Cwellyn Arms, with stunning views of Snowdon itself. Great grub too. You might get a late pint but that depends on the mood of mein host who is a bit of a..ahem.."character". If you want takeaways he puts them into a carton like a litre of milk we would get here.
    Jeez. I'm laughing away to myself thinking about that place. Surreal, but great crack at the same time.

    Edit: coddin' and jokin' aside the food there was very good after a long day's hiking (10mlies longer followed by a field with a bull thanks to our "guide"!).

    Believe it or not though it's not advertised if you have a couple of hours to spare in Holyhead there is a very picturesque park-for walking only-but it leads cross country to a rope bridge at the South Stack Lighthouse. Well worth a visit.


  • #3
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DualFrontDiscs


    Thanks.

    Plan is evolving into a cycle from Pembroke or Fishguard to Cardiff and then doing the Los Lan Cymru back to Holyhead.

    Does anyone have experience of the Los Lan Cymru?

    Regards,

    DFD.


  • #4
    strummer_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭strummer_ie


    I would be interested in any routes you've checked/mapped out for the Fishguard to Holyhead section.
    Considering something along these lines myself.


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