SightSee
Reality:
Partly cloudy AM, in the clouds noon, Sunny PM
06:00 wake up and read
06:40 sleep
07:50 wake up
08:15 breakfast: bacon, sausage, egg, OJ, toast, potato cakes
08:45 walk around town
09:15 bus #96 to Llanberis
09:55 arrive in
Llanberis
10:00 buy 2 tickets on Mt Snowdon Railroad
10:01 stand in right place to get last two seats on 10:00 train
11:00 Mt Snowdon summit
11:03 climb to actual summit, 40 degrees F but 30 mph wind
11:05 buy T-shirt £6.95
11:10 get best seats on return train
11:30 depart summit
12:30 arrive at base
12:35 lunch: sausage, chips and 7-Up
13:02 catch bus #88 to CaerNARFon
13:35 arrive in CaerNARFon, notice that bus #1 goes to Porthmadog
at 13:50
14:10 no sign of #1 bus, but here comes #2 which also goes to
Porthmadog
14:51 arrive in Porthmadog, go to narrow gage railroad
14:53 wrong narrow gage railroad
14:54 walk across town
15:05 arrive at right narrow gage railroad, train left at 14:55
15:06 buy 2 single direction first class tickets £18
15:20 train arrives, stake out good first class seats
16:00 train departs for Blaenau Ffestiniog 17:07, the engine is
named Linda
17:23 arrive at Blaenau Ffestiniog 16 minutes late
17:24 hurry up walkway, over tracks, down to britrail train
17:25.5 catch the 17:27 with 1:30 to spare
17:27 depart for Betws-y-coed
17:57 arrive Betws-y-coed
18:01 too late to try to buy Britianica Bear at toy store
18:10 return to room
18:20 walk east in search of dining ideas
18:40 that's far enough, turn around
18:42 let's check out hotel with long driveway
18:48 looks good, no smoking, serving at 19:00
18:49 stand around for 11 minutes
19:00 enter hotel bar in search of food
19:01 bartender/waitress says, "let me see if we've got room" after
all there were four cars in the parking lot.
19:03 waitress: "Ok, here's the menu"
19:05 order Diet Coke and Lemonade
19:10 order rack of welsh lamb
19:35 invited to dining room
19:35 served appetizer: grapefruit juice
19:40 rolls
19:50 rack of lamb in red wine sauce with potato cakes
20:10 yummy, best meal of the fortnight
20:20 dessert: chocolate cake ala mode
20:50 bill: £38 for two
20:55 walk back to room
21:10 arrive at room, pack for tomorrow
21:50 read
continue "Seeing a large cat" by Elizabeth Peters