More around Wales • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

It’s interesting to see excellent Welsh ice cream started by an Italian. Actually I had a good friend from Scotland who was also named Mario. The ice cream was chocolate on the bottom and on the top was strawberry.

I could have entered here to find my future. But it was closed so who knows what the future is

The streets of Conwy

On the other side of the port you enter the very popular city of Llandudno

It was cold enough to snow in the hills but not quite at the port. This was looking out from the castle

A cute boat man had an appealing call to the children every three or four minutes

A very old bank building near the station

A small but adequate town square

The train station is just this little place out of the rain. You better have already purchased your ticket somewhere else. And some people there told me that if the train is full they may not stop even though you’re on the schedule

It’s an interesting profession for the Kurds. I am sure they do a great job

You can walk the walls of the city which go all the way around and are extremely well preserved

Walking around the backstreet I saw this exclamation that the occupants are obviously Welsh. You can tell by the dragon. On the union Jack there are four crosses. The cross for whales is David who slew the dragon.

This was very tasty efficient chips except I exchanged the chips for onion rings. This little restaurant, mostly take away, is very famous

Clicking on the title of the section you will get a link to the history of the castle. It’s just a shell now but the shell is very impressive

Walking around inside

The birds were very comfortable here with the tourists. They obviously have taken over the castle, both see pigeons and the seagulls

A view of the railroad tracks and a new tunnel entrance to the bridge which sort of matches the castle concept

The seagulls are at home here

This black bird and his buddy I caught just in flight which it was kind of cool

The whole castle remains

This cute little town is probably going to be a good highlight for you to walk around. It’s a very interesting town and you can look at all the bookstores which seemed to be the highlight and fame of Hay on Wye. The river this is on is the Wye river

The clock tower

The Wye river

I’m not sure what this old building in the back was used for but it looks like it might have been a general market

I like this view

You can see the defense door at the entrance which is extremely old and has withstood many attacks

I bought a pair of shoes here and this is the old cash register from more than 100 years ago.

The fellow who sold me the shoes knew what he was doing. Actually he was retired but he decided to come in at work since his wife was working here also. She is the fourth generation of the owner of this shoe store. Now they have jackets and many other kinds of clothing. They are very proud of their profession. You might want to stop here and buy a pair of shoes.

Here is the shoe store on the corner. Actually it looks like it’s been expanded to another building as well. It’s fairly large

Fish and chips next to a bookstore. Why not!

Another view of the river

A large occupied house near the river

I like this view

This is the town of the video recording I did which in two days got over 1000 views, something that totally blew me out of the water. It’s a very popular place. Even though it’s not tourist season you see that many of the bed-and-breakfast are fully booked. It’s a nice place to stay for a couple days.