The day started off well - another frosty sunny morning. Still catching up with our sleep we didn’t raise our head from the pillows until gone 9.30am. We read on line that the nursery we are camped at has a cafe so it seemed rude not to use it for breakfast / brunch. We had a lazy hour or so drinking tea in bed and doing the morning ablutions. Tilly enjoyed watching the birds out the window...
We walked over to the nursery to discover that it had just reopened after the Christmas break and that the cafe wouldn’t be open until the end of February. We bought a plant - which has now become a real thing to do on all our trips - and headed back to Brunnehilda.
Kim whistled up a very acceptable cheese omelette in a bagel and we made some coffee for the journey. It only took us about 30 mins post breakfast to have her hooked up - that’s Brunnehilda not Kim!! The really nice chap who owned the site told us there was no hurry to leave as he didn’t have any more bookings until the weekend. That said, we were on the road by 12.15.
The journey took about 2 hours via Wrexham and then the A55 - otherwise known as the North Wales Expressway. This super fast highway joins the metropolis’ of Rhyl, Abergele, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno rather like pearls on a necklace.
The site, Ben Y Wendon, is bloody fantastic. It’s very quiet so they have given us the prime spot - a fully serviced pitch allowing us to put Brunnehilda on front ways and overlook the sea. There is a train track between us and the water but that just adds to the excitement- especially for Tilly!? The toilets are spotless and only 50 yards away and the folks we’ve met have been incredibly helpful and friendly.
After we had got ourselves set up we decided to take the dogs to explore. You access the beach by going under the railway line. It’s only about 1/4 mile but we took the car as the road was quite narrow and the dogs are not good on leads!
I know English is supposed to be blessed with lots of different words for things but I really think that someone needs to invent a new word for a “beach” full of rocks and boulders! A beach it certainly wasn’t but there was a bit of green and a cycle path for the dogs to vent their frustrations on after the journey.
After this we went straight out to explore. Firstly eastwards to Abergele - see first paragraph- and then Colwyn Bay. We drove round, parked up, wanderered around the town centre and then bought tea (and other provisions) at Morrisons.
We got home at about 6pm. Which gave us a pleasant evening eating, playing canasta (bit of a slaughter tonight - modesty prevents me from saying who was the slaughterer and who the slaughteree!), watching 2 episodes of The Waltons and 2 of The Wire - could you get 2 more extreme examples of TV Americana?
A couple of negatives as we troop off to bed. The A55 is pretty loud and our electric heating system seems to have given up the ghost! Hopefully the latter one can be fixed in the morning?!
Pros and Cons of Roden Nurseries CL Site:
Pros:
1) Only caravan there so it was great for dogs
2) Fabulously kept pitches
3) Each pitch had its own water tap
4) Quiet but close to Shrewsbury and nice dog walks
5) Exceptionally friendly owner
6) If opened the on site cafe would have been a real bonus
Cons:
1) Toilet a bit of a hike (at least 100 yds away)
2) No recycling facilities
3) Approached through a fairly scruffy car park
4) Having to get out the car to unlock a gated padlock (after 5pm) was a bit of a pain
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