Llanberis to Porthmadog

32 miles (51.5km)

We retraced our steps today back to the coastline and then followed it around to Porthmadog, not actually very far as the crow flys from Llanberis, but we wanted to avoid a whole day of riding up and down the mountain passes along the A roads. Sadly for me, and perhaps not so much for Alex, there are no little roads that would have let us go through the mountains, oh well at least they have narrow gauge mountain railways then!



The riding followed an old railway for about 15 miles around the coast, very pretty with lots of boats and so on every time we came near the sea itself. Then we turned inland and rode along about the smallest road you can imagine getting a car down, with high stone and then hedged walls; passing people along here took a little good grace on the drivers' part.



One thing I've noticed right around the UK is how often cattle and sheep are just lying on the ground (unlike the cows in the photo humph); with so much green pasture to eat there is obviously not the same incentive to keep moving around like back home in Australia. Here the animals seem even lazier (and the grass even greener). I'd have to say that I think the Welsh highlands are even greener than Scotland and Ireland.