Great Orme

A shower dodging day today on our way back home.

We started off at a view point for the two bridges onto Anglesey where we spotted the gull in the extra who nicely posed for his portrait.

We then drove onto the Great Orme near Llandudno, paid our toll and drove around the perimeter road and up to the top.  We had lunch at the top and made sure to get up to the trig point (even if it was blowing a gale and starting to rain!).  We then continued to make our way around the perimeter drive, stopping for tea and a very good cake.

Traffic coming back across was sometimes a challenge, and we finally made it home just before 7pm.

This grave was found in a graveyard near the top of the Great Orme.  It's from the 1920's.

"Beatrice Blore was born in Middlesbrough in 1887. Her father died when she was young and her mother re-married. The family came to Llandudno when her stepfather got a job as an electrician on the town’s pier. In June 1914 Beatrice drove a 10hp (horse power) Singer car up the Great Orme’s Cable Hill which has a gradient of 1 in 3. The feat attracted many onlookers and she was lauded as the first woman ever to drive a car up the Great Orme." from https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6870248