Friday 16th June 2023
The first part of today was a quick trip to Machynlleth where we parked
It isn’t a large town but interesting and has a long history, we managed to walk around for 45 minutes visiting a few shops including a hardware shop where we bought our purchase of the day, a bottle of dog shampoo.
We then drove onto Dolgoch Waterfalls in the valley below the mountain Cadair Idris, it was a bit of a tight squeeze in places especially when meeting large lorries but we made it in one piece.
Dolgoch Falls is a popular tourist spot with the Talyllyn Railway passing over them, there’s good parking for £2 and no charge to walk up the waterfalls. There hasn’t been much rain for a while so they weren’t as magnificent as I’m sure they are at some times of the year.
After lunch in Homer we drove on to tonight’s stopover at Fairbourne, it’s a small quiet residential village next to a long beach, it was founded by Arthur Mcdougal of Mcdougal Flour fame, there are a few shops, bar chip shop etc but on the whole not too much commercial tat.It has a miniature railway built in 1895 with a 2 mile route to Penrhyn Point where there is a small ferry to Barmouth.
We are staying on a newly created motorhome stopover with all the facilities we need, we have paid £5 but you can pay for electricity, water etc separately, the payment system is automated and too complicated everyone struggles to know what to do, probably evidenced by the “ honesty” box in which you can pay by cash.
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