3 drops of rain, that's about all the weather these gloomy dark clouds produced. It was atmospheric, driving up and over Llanberis Pass, with Snowden hidden in the mist somewhere above us, and luckily it didn't interfere with our plans at all.
It was an easy day - not a lot of driving nor sightsseeing, perfect for this point of our vacation. It's too easy to get tourist overload on Allison's Whirlwind Tours, so it's important to intersperse quiet vs. frenetic days in order to successfully make it through to the end!
A peaceful constitutional to Fairy Glen was a lovely way to start our morning. One starts off walking through a farmers' fields then veers off down to a stream and lo and behold, this fairy ravine.
Being time already for morning tea, we popped into the Pen-Y-Gwryd, the bar at the base of Snowden that had collected lots of mountaineering memorabilia dedicated to Edmund Hillary and his hiking buddies (they trained here in preparation for Everest). The bar was very cool, but there was also a wedding about to happen, and that was cool too.
Then we drove the misty Llanberis Pass, across to Penrhyn Castle - a 19th C., 310-room behometh of a family home. Far too costly to run after death taxes were introduced, it has been in the care of the National Trust since 1951. They've done a magnificent job restoring 30-odd rooms for us to gape at, but in order to protect the fabrics from fading they keep the rooms horribly dim so unfortunately the photos don't do it justice.
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