{"id":458,"date":"2010-08-10T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=458"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:43:19","slug":"second-day-bangor-to-dyffryn-ardudwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Second day \u2013 Bangor to Dyffryn Ardudwy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I awoke around 6, lit the bush buddy and prepared porridge followed by sausage for breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The camp site cost us \u00a35, which wasn\u2019t too bad and we packed up and made for Llanberis, which was where we intended to camp but for Charlotte\u2019s mishap. Thankfully she could still cycle without problem, but it seemed that her swimming would be sadly curtailed. The weather was fairly sunny, but none too warm. We stopped at Craig-y-Llyn, my sister\u2019s former abode, for a photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Llanberis we stopped at a camping shop and I bought a small fold-up padded mat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a fairly long grind up Llanberis in which Charlotte, naturally, left me well behind, but I made it to the top without dismounting. We stopped at the caf\u00e9 for lunch \u2013 I had chilli with rice and we both had cake. The descent to Beddgelert was lovely \u2013 I topped 36mph. I could have gone faster, but with full camping gear one wonders what the bike might do. We rode through to Penrhyndeudraeth and on to Harlech for some supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived at the campsite at Dyffryn Ardudwy the campsite owners wanted \u00a317 per pitch \u2013 the same for a cycle tourist as they would charge for a Range Rover with caravan and awning. We weren\u2019t going to support this disgraceful profiteering so we wild-camped on a flat area of grass between the camp site fence and the dunes. It was a beautiful evening, sunny and with a breeze. I found plenty of fuel for the Bush Buddy by the simple means of picking dead twigs out of the stunted trees which provided cover for our tents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I awoke around 6, lit the bush buddy and prepared porridge followed by sausage for breakfast. The camp site cost us \u00a35, which wasn\u2019t too bad and we packed up and made for Llanberis, which was where we intended to camp but for Charlotte\u2019s mishap. Thankfully she could still cycle without problem, but it seemed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}