Today we went on the railway to the summit of Mt Snowdon.
Up early to get to the ticket office by 7am. No queue, so back to the hotel for breakfast, checkout, move the car to a £5 per day Pay and Display. The machine would not take one of my £1 coins, minted in 1996. Back at the ticket office at 8am we were first in line. Next person in line told me my old coins won’t work, and I can’t even spend them now. They had paid £8 to park across the road in the main car park, about 50 metres from the £5 park. Ticket office had a few spare tickets, and we booked for 11am.
Someone in the queue for the summit remarked how British it was to form a queue. But the queue was not moving, and many, me included eventually, just went up the other way.
After lunch in a High Street cafe (good food but indifferent service) it was time to go to Amlwch, all of 36km away, in Anglesey. We were sure to instruct Theresa to take us across the Menai Bridge. Thomas Telford’s 1826 suspension bridge is almost 200 years old. It was reconstructed in 1935 with a new deck and 4 sets of 2 chains instead of 4 sets of 4 chains.
