Snowdon Hike
This weekend I escaped London to enjoy two of my other hobbies: hiking and photography. This time I headed to Wales to climb up the 1085 meter high mountain Snowdon; Wales' highest peak. As opposed to staying in Llanberis, the town closest to many of the routes up Snowdon, I stayed in the little quiet town Caernarfon. Or rather, in the B&B Tal Menai not too far away from it. If you get there by bus though, make sure you don't get off on the one that's just a stop too far, because there is no way you can walk along the road. We ended up backtracking over a cycle path.
Caernarfon has a pretty nice castle and also a bit of town wall still. It's otherwise not very interesting but they do have a non-floating floating restaurant. As it's on the Menai Strait there are some pretty sunsets however.
There are several tracks up to Snowdon, also from different starting points. Our starting point was the Pen-y-Pass parking place at 359 meters above sea-leavel. From here on we went up the Pyg track to the summit. Unfortunately, the Welsh weather was doing it's normal thing: clouds. Which means we saw nothing of the view once we got to the summit at 1085 meters high. Basically, the view was the one that you can see here on the left.
After tea and some snacks, we headed back down. And as soon as we did the clouds cleared up showing us the view that was denied us on the way upwards. We took the Miners track back to the parking place to take the bus back to Caernarfon for a very welcomed proper pub meal.
I think I would like to go back once more, to try some of the other tracks. The Crib Goch one is supposed to be a really nice ridge walk; unfortunately it wasn't marked on the rendered OpenStreetmap at that point (it is now of course).
To see all the pictures, please visit my flickr set "Snowdon".
Life Line
I've finished reading This Way Up. It's about maps, that went wrong.
It's a good read, but htyerr were several chapters that were written in a novel way (as a video transcript, a series of letters), and I found distracting from the a tail content. It'll have worked better in a produced video.
No mention of @openstreetmap though :-(
Updated a bench
Created a tree; Updated 3 humps and a waste_basket
The Early Cormorant Catches the Eel
Sorry, not the best photo! But I caught this Cormorant catching this large eel when looking for Bank Swallows, right next to Eel Pie Island in the Thames.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Photography #London
Updated an estate_agent office
I went to my nieces' birthday party yesterday.
The theme was pink, and that included all the food, mostly died with beet root.
Shock and horror this morning when doing number two. Not only was my turd dark red, it was also glittering at me. Apparently the carrot cake had edible glitter...
So now I know what's worse than glitter.
😂 ✨ 💩 🟣Long-Tailed Tit on a Branch with Lichen
I've been spending some time in random London local nature reserves.
Sitting and listening, and in fifteen minutes you spot countless species.
This one was in Ham Lands Local Nature Reserve near Teddington.
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A Colourful Mandarin
In The Long Water in Kensington Palace Gardens, London.
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Created 7 benches
Created 2 benches
Created a bench
I walked 7.3km in 2h28m39s
Added a note about a duplicate Papersmiths
I walked 4.1km in 49m02s
Fixed website
fix typo
Updated a bench
I walked 1.6km in 20m26s
I walked 1.1km in 11m49s
The Yellow Eye
A blue heron's head, with its very yellow stare-y eye.
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My little Lego box is telling me it really is quite warm outside.
Created a bicycle_parking and a crossing
I walked 3.3km in 41m56s
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