After breakfast in our new hotel, we headed into Wales and made a quick stop at the beach at Llandudno on the Irish Sea, where Fred did a little wading. As we entered the town we were given the words to a popular British ditty, which we were all supposed to sing.  We tried but the singing was pretty pitiful.

Dean Liddell of Oxford college, with his daughter Alice, had a home here and throughout the town there are several statues representing characters from Alice in Wonderland.

Next we moved on to Conwy Castle, completed by Edward I in 1288. This is a really nice and very old castle, and it gives you a better appreciation of the difficulty of trying to storm such a place. Much of the original city wall also still remains–a remarkable place

After scrambling up and down the castle towers, we were all ready for a lunch break, which we took at Anna’s, a very refined tearoom where we had soup, sandwiches and a small cake.

Next we visited the Welsh Slate Museum at Llanberis, the site of huge slate quarries and now a prime attraction for rock climbers.

Some of us then took the short hike up to the remains of Dolbadarn Castle. This was a Welsh stronghold of Llywelyn the Great defeated by Edward I. We then drove back home passing through Snowdonia Park, where we were able to get a photo of our Road Scholar leaders at a beautiful lake.