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2025-09-07 Caernarfon

Rain, rain, rain… Quite warm rain, but nevertheless wet… So into Caernarfon, where we nipped into Tesco for some essentials, then to the castle which has (for the most part) a roof.

It was half-marathon day, but they didn’t bother us and we didn’t bother them

There were artworks in the castle to celebrate the makers (and several more which we didn’t get round to seeing):

Silver pennies to pay for it all
The Architect
The Labourers
The Carpenter
The Tilers (actually made of glass, to provide light to the chapel below)
Edward I: Where is your glory now?
The best way to hold up a drainpipe

By this time it was time to look for some lunch, so we found a little cafe outside the castle, which did us very nice toasties with chips, and a massive cup of tea.

The rain had stopped, possibly there may even have been a gleam of sunshine, so we followed a geocache trail round the town that gave us some interesting snippets of local history.

No St George’s flags here
Monument to Llewellyn ap Gryffydd
Fossil in a pillar
Herring Gull

And then the rain started again, so we had tea and (massive, sweet) cake in another cafe, then came home for roast chicken dinner.

4 miles

12,000 steps

4 geocaches

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