Never again! Never!
Will I go to Beddgelert Forest Holiday site. What with the midges out in force (although nowhere near as bad as the Scotish variety) we ended up looking like we had measles....
Then the alleged 'clearings' - well, they might have been back in the day, but since then the tree canopy has closed over them. A teeny bit of sunlight, but not a dappled clearing. We had the lights on every time we needed the cooker. It was dark and damp and made us ache.
At night, the rain stayed in the canopy high above until the drops got too heavy, then pelted on us from a great height. Bad enough that I climbed up the side of my caravan and threw a blanket onto the roof at 2.30am to try and deaden the sound.
Driving out onto the road from the site, we were amazed at times to find it was actually nice weather out there. You couldn't tell from within... Mordor springs to mind.
Good bits - watching the steam trains... going out for a meal at Beddgelert village. Paddling in the sea at Criccieth, and shopping in Porthmadoc. Meeting Marie - who came all the way from south Wales in her Roma to see my awning! Walking up to a viewpoint halfway up a hillside and seeing the very top of Snowdon. Finding a dog-friendly cafe in Caenarfon. The loos and shower blocks always had hot water and the one by us was also very new and very clean. Seeing a Jay, which stayed many a while before flying off in a flurry of bright colourful plumage.
I might laugh at it all later... not yet though. I'm still trying to remove half a forest floor from my van, along with gazillions of dead midges and a load of mud.
Will I go to Beddgelert Forest Holiday site. What with the midges out in force (although nowhere near as bad as the Scotish variety) we ended up looking like we had measles....
Then the alleged 'clearings' - well, they might have been back in the day, but since then the tree canopy has closed over them. A teeny bit of sunlight, but not a dappled clearing. We had the lights on every time we needed the cooker. It was dark and damp and made us ache.
At night, the rain stayed in the canopy high above until the drops got too heavy, then pelted on us from a great height. Bad enough that I climbed up the side of my caravan and threw a blanket onto the roof at 2.30am to try and deaden the sound.
Driving out onto the road from the site, we were amazed at times to find it was actually nice weather out there. You couldn't tell from within... Mordor springs to mind.
Good bits - watching the steam trains... going out for a meal at Beddgelert village. Paddling in the sea at Criccieth, and shopping in Porthmadoc. Meeting Marie - who came all the way from south Wales in her Roma to see my awning! Walking up to a viewpoint halfway up a hillside and seeing the very top of Snowdon. Finding a dog-friendly cafe in Caenarfon. The loos and shower blocks always had hot water and the one by us was also very new and very clean. Seeing a Jay, which stayed many a while before flying off in a flurry of bright colourful plumage.
I might laugh at it all later... not yet though. I'm still trying to remove half a forest floor from my van, along with gazillions of dead midges and a load of mud.

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