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Sep 15, 2014 - Final day in Conwy
Today we decided to finally go across the river to Llandudno by way of Deganwy. We had hoped to walk all the way there on the Seacoast trail but somewhere we made a wrong turn and walked through the centre of Deganwy. We did however make it to Llandudno. Llandudno is a resort town built on a sand spit in the Irish Sea in North Wales with a sandy beach and quite a lot of the English come here for their holidays. Their are quite a few hotels and guest houses but not a whole lot else. We walked out onto the Victorian Promenade (the Pier) which...
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Sep 14, 2014 - Conway, day 2
Today we walked a total 15.2 km. our goal was to walk the tour suggested by Rick Steeves in his book, tour the castle, find the golf course and walk across the river to different town. Leaving our B&B we were told by another visitor to visit Plas Mawr a medieval house in the centre of town, so we did. According to the audio tour the house is the oldest house in Wales still standing built in 1580 during the reign of Elizabeth 1st. It is the first Welsh house built within the walls of the castle and it was enormous, but you couldn't tell that...
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