Early July, summer has already begun so I'm wondering what everyone's plans are for the summer.
Are you going away somewhere, or looking forward to something local? Or are you just going to enjoy your time off by generally doing nothing and enjoying the weather?
Needless to say, I'll be in the UK again. Am leaving next week Wednesday with a mate, fly to Liverpool and then head off to North Wales. We're not sticking by a detailed schedule, altough we do have a rough plan which will guide us to the 2 weeks. General idea is to have a look around Liverpool first, we fly in the morning, and then head off to the North Wales coastal town of Llandudno (I'm trying to pronounce it properly in Welsh, but will no doubt fail miserably when I'm there). One of the things I definetely want to while there, is to walk up Mount Snowdon. Shouldn't be too hard, have got plenty of experience in the Alps and Pyrennees, but they say the weather around Snowdon can be quite tricky.
After probably staying in Llandudno for about 3 nights, the idea is to head down south, by train through Snowdonia and along the West Welsh Coast to Aberystwyth (which I'm not even going to try to pronounce, but I understand they shorten it to just 'Aber'), and after a few days all the way down to Cardiff. Hoping to do a cycle ride from Cardiff into the Brecon Beacons, a national park north of Cardiff which, judging by the pictures I've seen, should be lovely.
After Cardiff we're going to head down to Penzance in one go, so should be a 5,5h train ride (and no, I'm not telling you when we pass through Bristol, Claire). Penzance and area isn't unfamiliar to me, having been there a couple of times before, but so far it hasn't started to get boring. Hoping to do a day trip to the Isles of Scilly, but like with all other ideas we have, we're just going to take it by the day and see what we fancy doing next. After a few days of Southwest Cornwall we hope to catch the nighttrain back to London and finish off our holiday there, before returning home by train.
Alltogether we'll be gone for 15days and I'm most of all looking forward to Wales. I've been to Cardiff 5years ago but haven't seen any other part of Wales so it's all going to be new to me but am already getting excited about the many things I've looked up and intend to go see.