Today we drove to Aberdaron on the Llyn peninsular and did a coastal hike. This was really beautiful until it started to lash rain as we walked back via the lanes. The Saturday travel supplement of the weekend’s guardian featured some of the remotest places in the Britain and one of them was the tip of the Llyn peninsular opposite Ynus Enlli (Bardsey Island) exactly where we had been today! It is pretty remote where we are staying. We can’t get a phone line and forget accessing the internet! Back at Aberdaron, we had a pub lunch at The Ship. Nice enough, but overpriced just for a Ploughman’s and a bowl of Heinz tomato soup. The barman could have been the twin brother of our friend Joe-Joe in Japan. Joe-Joe loves making fun of Welsh people (he’s English) so I found this really amusing. We overheard two people talking in the bar, rather the woman was talking in a really loud voice at the man who said very little. She went on and on about herself – how tedious! At one point she started talking about how she had given up smoking because there were too many holes in her aura. I gave David a look, but he hadn’t heard properly so I had to wait until they left to tell him what I had heard. We have been running with this ever since: “I had better not have any more coffee as there are already too many holes in my aura” etc.
That afternoon we went to Pwllheli as I had to access the internet to send an article I had promised by mid August. I had to do this in the basement of the town library in the kids’ section on a computer which censored Facebook. We also had to find a launderette as when we asked our landlady about a washing machine, she said “I’ll have a think about it.” Did she think we’d go for 2 weeks without washing any clothes after hiking on muddy mountains everyday
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