9 August 2021 – Monday

We woke to see the sun shining at last. What a pleasant change. The sky was cloudy and failed to improve, but at least it was dry. We packed our things and left the site at 1100 hrs., heading for Anglesey. Our chosen site was Nant Bychan Farm, in the tiny village of Moelfre. After a short diversion caused by my misreading the SatNav, we arrived at about 1330 hrs. and were soon allocated our pitch and sorted out. Again, this is a coastal site with sea views - and a lot of wind! This time, the internet worked properly, albeit rather slowly. But hey! what a bonus to have it working after the failure at the last site.

Photograph above (and video, below) shows the Nant Bychan Farm Camp Site, Moelfre, Anglesey

View along the Britannia Bridge taken through the car window by JP.

10 August 2021 - Tuesday - Visit to Traeth Bychan and nearby to our site in Moelfre and Ynys Moelfre Island

We walked to this beach this afternoon. Kanga had a wonderful time as she loves being out and about - especially when she can have a paddle.

On the way back to the caravan from Traeth Bychan, Grace collected some periwinkles from the beach, with Kanga watching over her:

During the evening we paid a visit to the local village of Moelfre where we walked past the RNLI Museum which commemorated the sinking of the Royal Charter on the night of 25-26 October 1859.

The statue below is in remembrance of lifeboatman Richard Matthew Evans BEM, (January 19, 1905 – September 13, 2001). He was born in the village of Moelfre on the north-east of the island of Anglesey. During his 50 years service as a lifeboatman, Richard Evans was involved in 179 launches and the saving of 281 lives and is one of only five men to be awarded the RNLI gold medal twice, the highest accolade awarded by the institution and the equivalent of the Victoria Cross for bravery at sea (Source: Richard Evans (lifeboatman) - Wikipedia).

10 August 2021 - Tuesday (continued)

As mentioned previously, during the afternoon, we walked to the next bay at Traeth Bychan - another place where you will be ripped off for every pound they can extract from you.

11 August 2021 - Wednesday

The weather is once again atrocious, so we had something of a lazy day. I had a good read and am now past the first 380 pages of Robert Fisk's mighty tome and, as expected, he provides more convincing evidence as to why we should never believe a word of what our leaders proclaim as the truth. The level of lies, deceit and corruption of our leaders is unimaginable for every day folks to believe when all they are trying to do is make an honest living whilst all the time our leaders are doing everything so dishonestly that it is almost beyond belief until you read a book such as this. The human cost of millions of lives lost because of their dishonesty, corruption and incompetence, is more than my words can express adequately but Robert Fisk does a superb job of doing so.

During the early evening, with an improvement in the weather, I popped out to buy some ice creams at mouth-watering prices - talk about being ripped-off! Everything here is a rip-off.

12 August 2021 - Thursday

We drove off the island today to visit Bangor. Some years ago we'd had a wonderful meal in an Italian restaurant near the Garth Pier so that was where we headed. We'd last visited this restaurant ten years ago with Grace's mum and found it closed. This time it was also closed - permanently! The Covid virus lockdown had forced the owners to close their business and retire and the place is now up for sale. How sad.

13 August 2021 - Friday

The above photograph was taken whilst walking Kanga at about 0745 hrs. on 13 August 2021, just a short distance from the camp site.

We went out in the car for a ride and visited the places listed below. Sunny, but very windy.

Point Lynas

Church Bay

Another view of Molfre taken whilst out for a walk with Kanga.

At last we've woken to the peace of very little wind howling past the caravan, for a change. The wind has made our stay in Wales very unpleasant even when it hasn't been raining. Our trip out yesterday was more of a test of endurance than a joy as the wind was both cold and blowing hard. It would improve life a great deal if we could have a few days without being blown away! However, despite the less windy start, the day was overcast and miserable, albeit more or less dry until later afternoon when the rain began to fall once more.

Grace and I went for a drive, more to get out of the caravan than anything else as sightseeing wasn't really an option as there was little to see that wasn't grey and miserable. JP and Kanga were sensible enough to stay in the caravan. We returned at about 1630 hrs. after going to the local ice cream shop with the intention of cheering us all up with some icy delights. Sadly, we were to be disappointed and went back to the caravan empty handed as even a single scoop of ice cream was going to be £3:00, so never mind being ripped off. This place is a rip-off from start to finish - even more expensive than Switzerland! We won't be returning.

And the rain continues to fall.

During our drive, we passed the church of Llanidan (St. Nidan) at Brynsiencyn. This church was built in about 1815 so is not the original church which was a couple of miles away which, unfortunately, we didn't visit.

15 August 2021 - Sunday

Weather showery and by the afternoon the wind was back with a vengeance. I managed to fix the hot water system so that now works. We all got a soaking today. Grace and JP went for a walk with Kanga to Traeth Bychan where they were ripped off - being charged £11 for a rather small pizza! Sheer robbery! We won't be coming back to Anglesey. This has been almost the worst holiday experience we've ever had - the worst being in Scotland in 2008.

It will be good to be back in our real home tomorrow.

Nights away: 15. Total distance driven: 570 miles - nothing compared to our usual tours.