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Weekending at Gwel y Wawr

We had a weekend away here in mid October. Rain soaked weekend forecast, but we set off anyway. When we arrived the owner was waiting to greet us with rain water dripping off her hat. The site has five hard standing pitches, but only two you can get to easily without driving over grass, pitches four and five. It was indeed very wet under foot, so good job we were allocated Pitch 5 and did not have to negotiate the grass. Only one other pitch was taken. The site has toilets, which was handy. £20 per night, winter price because of “extra electricity used for heating”. One of the best things about the site, at least for me, was the view. You can see Red Wharf Bay from the back of the site (and the Ship Inn if you know what you are looking for). We parked up so that in the morning we could throw open the back doors of the van and look at the view; provided it had stopped raining by then! Another handy thing about the site is that the Bull pub is almost next door, literally 50m away. Two obvious things to do direct from the site are either to walk down to the sea shore and the Ship Inn for lunch; or to walk to Pentraeth Forest where, apparently, there are red squirrels; or combine the two. Because of the weather we went for option one. We walked along the A5025, need to take care of the fast moving traffic, but there is pavement, but did not take the road heading down to the sea on the other side of The Bull, but continue a bit further, past a little industrial estate, where there is a path on the left, much nicer than road walking. When you get down to the sea you hit the Anglesey coast path, head left and this will take you all the way to the Ship Inn. Took an hour to walk to the pub. The rain mostly held of all the way, just some light drizzle; although the streams we crossed over were gushing. The Ship Inn is a perfect harbour side pub right on the sea front. It serves Kenneally Bitter brewed specially for the Ship Inn, or so I as told. Nice food. There is another eatery a few doors up called The Boathouse. After lunch we decided to walk along the coast path a bit further to the beach on the other side of the headland. walked back along the road up to the A5025 and then along the old railway line back to the camp site. Despite the rain we had a great weekend at Gwel y Wawr.
Motorhomer

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