After leaving St Davids yesterday morning we drove through Fishguard and on to Aberystwyth.  This drive mostly by the coast and through lots of little villages.  These little villages are really lovely but driving through them can be quite harrowing as the roads are so narrow with cars parked on the kerb which virtually leaves a narrow bit of road for cars in both directions.  Somehow patience and driving manners means people just wait their turn to drive through.   At Aberystwyth (a decent sized town0 we had lunch. We found a bookshop  Ian found a couple of books to read.   He kept looking lost without something to read and I kept finding him sitting on a chair with his hands on his lap looking like a little schoolboy.   We then caught the steam train to Devil’s Bridge.  This was a one hour trip both ways up up through some lovely mountain landscape.  We had been to Devil’s bridge before so didn’t pay to punish ourselves and walk down to the bottom again, instead had a cream tea at the tearoom nearby and waited till it was time to make the return journey. 

We then drove on to Borth, a nice place along the Cardigan Bar coast found a B & B and settled in for the night.   Right across the road was the ‘beach’ so went across for the sunset which was really spectacular.

Today we continued to drive around the coast to Tywyn where there was another steam train trip however missed it by a few minutes so continued on to Dolgellau which is a little way inland.  The weather forecast was for heavy rain however it was still sunny when we arrived there so Ian decided to do the 8 mile walk along the old railway line to Barmouth.  He had seen this on one of the Julia Bradbury walks on TV so was keen to do it.  Whilst he was doing that I sorted out the internet modem I purchased a few days ago and have been having trouble with then looked around the village and read until he arrived back.   We are currently near Caernarfon and did meet the rain as we drove along. 

Part of the path and steps down to the bottom of Devils Bridge.  We did this hike 10 years ago on a misty morning and didn't need to do it again.  It's called Devils Bridge because there are three bridges, on top of the other built at various times across the gorge.

The sunset at Borth,  Note the rocks in the foreground.  These were put there at great expense and a wall built to protect the houses across the road when global warming causes the water to flood the streets in 30 years time!