Back garden Snowdonia

Llanberis is a small town at the foot of Snowdon where the Mountain Railway begins its long and slow ascent up Snowdon. We take it tomorrow. The town itself is a little tired looking but seems to have everything in its single straight high-street (Wild West style) including a chippie, Indian and Chinese. We got a Chinese and had a peak at the mountains while we waited. Not a bad waiting room. The Chinese takeaway owner moved here from Woolwich. Their children grew up and moved back.

Our B&B is probably the dingiest of the three so far. The one in Scotland was beautiful and very well furnished and maintained. This one is a little like a two-star hotel, together with plastic shower curtain, primary school soap and a single plug socket operating a TV, two lamps and the bathroom lighting. But it is quite spacious and from the outside is probably the most impressive.