Apple muncher's number crunching

apple_muncher

Today's weather has been glorious! We trekked up the Great Orme, following the tram route. It would've cost us £20 to take the tram - yikes! Shanks' pony was good enough for us.

We found the trig point and took some photos, but it is most definitely NOT the place where the photo of me and big sis was taken. Next stop: the Little Orme! But that'll have to wait for the next dry day...

I have done 19k steps today and climbed 102 floors. About 65 of them were getting up the hill alone. We should all sleep well tonight...

greent

Fab stats, apple! Fingers crossed for another dry day soon, so you can check out Little Orme
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CathT

Glad you had some good weather, it really got better as the day went on. Enjoy exploring.

apple_muncher

Pleased to be able to still move after all those floors yesterday .

The forecast was for a drizzly/rainy day so we stayed local and pottered over to Conwy. Went in to the smallest house with dd - she absolutely adored it. We also walked a bit of the walls and spent aaaaages in the toy shop. I'm impressed with dd as, after much deliberation over Top Model stuff, doll's house stuff and Syl Fam stuff, she opted for a TM designing book that she will use for hours.

We went in to L's cafe (I think) and were v impressed by their consideration of dd being gf and df, admitting that they had no cakes that were both, but suggesting C0sta round the corner. Well, we knew that in C0sta, dd would only have a soya mil with marshmallow, so we asked if they could do that and dd ended up with the most humungous cup of frothy milk with so many marshmallows she couldn't eat them all! Dh and I both had coffee and a cake, and we all sat outside and had a jolly time of it. All for £10.

Lunch was partaken of in the park, on what appeared to be the only bench around. We were eyed greedily by some seagulls, but gave them nowt.

Once back we watched dd's choice of film - HP and the order of the phoenix. Boy is it a sad, dark film. I was v glad we'd all read the book first. Dd kept going out to practice her badminton during the bits she didn't like.

The rain does seem to have missed us today, apart from pelting down at 6.40am and now. If tomorrow is dry, then part II of The Quest will be undertaken. Research shows that it is almost 2 miles from Llandudno stn to the base of the Little Orme, so we shall be looking at using buses for that part - we want to still have some energy left to explore more of the town and sea front.

Pearla*Merle

Sounds like a lovely adventure! Hope the weather is continuing to be kind (& we'll t0done on that steppage!)

ETA: oops, only saw your last post after posting, glad you've escaped the worst if the rain, and what an epic cafe stop! Fab

earthgirl

Glad you are having a good holiday. I enjoyed my rainy British holiday as it's just nice to be together even in the rain!

Watty1

Loving reading the holiday adventures.

apple_muncher

Another truly wonderful day has been had.

We headed back to Llandudno, armed with plusbus tickets. Caught a bus to nearish to the Little Orme and tramped up it (only 44 floors, as compared with the 64 of the Great Orme). And, indeed, it is the location of the photo taken some 40+ years ago. I was sooo excited! It was blowing a hooley - as it tends to on the coast, eh? - but so gloriously sunny.

A meander down and a bus back to town where we took our time over the charity shops and went into any other shops that took our fancy. Think £land, The W0rks and suchlike. Nowt fancipants and cher. There is a stonkingly good craft shop where I bought 4x ribbon for £2 total, 4x packs of felt for £10 and 1m of green felt off a roll (!) For £1.50. Bizarrely, it also sells motorised wheelchair thingies for nigh on a grand... Charity shops yielded up a 50p doll for dd, a l-s jacket + per una white vest top + long sleeveless top + l-s top, all for me, for £2, and a couple of books. Happy times.

However, I have realised that I am not one for going round the shops frequently. We have done it for 3 consecutive days, not spending much at all, but I have now had enough of it.

Dd would like to return to Llandudno, in her cossie, to go in the sea. Brrrr!

Dh gave us all a bit of a fright this evening, whilst washing up. He managed to cut his thumb rather badly on a very sharp knife. We got some plasters on it asap, wrapped it all up with insulation tape (yeah, I know, who on carries insulation tape on holiday with them? My dh, of course!) We have since changed the wrapping - for more of the same - and were relieved to see that the cut has sealed already. He'll do anything to get out of washing up and playing badminton with dd...

greent

Glad DH's cut seems to be ok - hope it heals soon
Sounds like you're having a great time - and DD sounds terribly brave for even thinking of going in the sea!!

smallholdingsister

They x rayed your TOE? How is it?