The return bus went through a well-known but small place referred to as Llanfair P.G. Out of deference to my long-suffering web designer, Karamjeet, who comes from a place many, many times bigger than this small town in Anglesey but whose name is almost twelve times shorter, I shall not copy the name here but, needless to say, it was a delightfully happy place, people took photos of the town name by its railway station and I enjoyed the vast souvenir shop before walking on and over the Menai Bridge and on to Bangor as I, as usual, ploughed on and wasn’t close to a bus stop when a bus went by. I feel for the bus drivers crossing the Menai Bridge as there is very little room for error.

There is a nice feel to Wales and I enjoy the vast majority of signs being in both Welsh and English. I’m just about recognising and very slightly understanding a few Welsh words. It reminds me of a time on a Cosmos coach tour around Italy when our guide was talking about Britain and said “ you peoples have many different countries. You have the English, the Scottish, the Irish and the Welshish...” If you insist...

Sunday saw me go to Pen-y-Pass: a very busy Pen-y-Pass with crowds flooding there to take on the Pyg or Miners Walk to Snowdon. My interest in mountaineering and especially George Mallory made this interesting as Pen-y-Pass had been a much visited place for Mallory . I stuck to taking some photos along the Pyg Track before settling on a longer walk - but no attempt to reach the summit as I had done from Llanberis last year - along the Miners Track which was not only idyllic but reminded me of the Schwarzsee area of Zermatt. Even though Pen-y-Pass is but a few miles away from Llanberis, the scenery is quite noticeably different.