Sardines to the summit

After perhaps not the best sleep so far, given the substandard quality of our rooms (including thin floppy cushions, ticking pipework and creaking floorboard from the room above), our first aim was to make our only summit of the three peaks.

The Snowdon Mountain Railway, built in 1896 and always designed for tourists, consists of a single cramped carriage with wooden seats pushed by a noisy rattling steam locomotive. Unlike those seated in the middle of a row we were lucky to get window seats and a good view for the whole 8km journey as we were pushed up a very steep incline to the 1085m summit of Mount Snowdon. I had originally intended to walk this, but in the end it would have been too much to take Katarina so far on foot.