Day 7 - On to Northern Wales and Mt. Snowdon

Today was a long drive day and it rained the whole way to the norther peninsula of Wales.  It was however a stunning drive up and down valleys and around beautiful greenscaped hills.  We wandered through small villages, one looking just a bit different than the next.

Early on we stopped at a historical landmark, the Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber.  It stopped raining on cue as we parked the car...and started up again once we were back in it.  The site is the age of Stonehenge...5,000 years or more.  It is considered the finest example of a burial chamber in all of the UK...setting aside of course Stonehenge itself.  There are many of this scattered about the west coast.  We were lucky to have this one on our route.  That huge table rock is perched on points that are the width of a knife blade.  Please tell me how people 5,000 years ago figured out how to do that...using primitive tools at that!

We stopped for a picnic lunch along side the highway overlooking the Irish Sea before starting our climb into the highlands of Mt. Snowdon.  We reached the town of Caernarf on late in the day.  The weather broke once again and after some wandering, we found our lovely English garden apartment where we will spend two nights.