Friday, July 23, 2010

Day 289 - Cregennan Lakes & Porthmadog

Cregennan Lakes are nestled in the base of the valleys of Cader Idris and as you can see from the photos absolutely gorgeous. They are the district’s water supply…believe me with the Welsh weather, there would never ever be water restrictions here!! ;)

The views throughout were out of this world, honestly they didn’t look real. The incredible stone mountains were mammoth, the photos in no way capture their enormity. Absolutely picturesque.

A random stone monolith from the Druid era…ahhh gotta love the medieval times.

The land was so green, peppered with gorgeous snow white cows with the occasional black cow thrown into the mix. Black cowies soon became my favourites as they are so rare and hard to take a photo of…awe!!

In the afternoon we caught a full-sized steam train from Porthmadog (pronouced Port Maddoch although I kept saying Port Ma Dog LOL) from Ffestiniog Railway which is the oldest independent railway company in the world to the slate town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in First Class…as you do. ;)

Classic Train Driver!!

It was so sweet and as we enjoyed our wines and muffins we took in the glorious views and the fabulous toot tooting of the steam engine. xx

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