If you have Google Earth, click on this link.  (Lots of inaccurate pins on it - mine is within 25m.)

For Google maps, click here (poor) or try Bing Bird's Eye here which has a good zoom.

They're long URLs, hope they work.

We were very lucky with the weather.  The cloud base was high, a front had just passed by and there was no rain so we could see for miles.

I've been up before when the clouds cover everything, you can't see your hand in front of your face and hailstones like frozen peas swirl up at you.  And that was in summer - in winter, you really have to be fit and well-prepared as the snow makes life extremely dangerous.  Hafod Eryri, as its name implies, closes for the winter.

For those interested in the Royals, Prince William's RAF Rescue Squadron is based not far away at RAF Valley, on Ynys Môn.  And the area is popular for RAF training flights.  RAF Harriers and the like scream up the valleys, and people on the top of the hills can look down to see the crew of the plane when they bank to turn, leaving vapour trails from the wings.  Which is not always appreciated.

See this article in the Daily Torygraph: RAF aircraft fly low through the Dinas Pass, known as the Mach Loop, in Snowdonia, Wales

Noel Carboni wrote:

Very beautiful country!

-Noel

That's Wales for you, and now you know why the English wanted and took it - even if we have been unsuccessfully trying to send them home since 1283!

We didn't climb. We went up on the train!  http://www.snowdonrailway.co.uk/

We're too old for that carry on, even though I have climbed up many times before.

Technical info about the railway here: http://www.snowdonrailway.co.uk/technical_info.php

Wales is the place to be!

The UK austerity measures mean no Traffic Wardens in Aberystwyth, so fine-free parking - and lots of road rage!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/warden-layoff-sparks-tr affic-chaos-2295743.html

Correction

The pictures are of WALES.  England is over the horizon to the east…

Joanne V D wrote:

 

your pictures look very nice. You may use google map to find attractive places there.

Thank you, however,

a) Google Maps/Earth is never up to date;

b) I don't need Google to find anything - the newspaper is better;

b) I don't live too far away which means I visit often and;

c) there's no substitute for the real expereince - seeing the monutains, breathing the mountain air, feeling the sunshine and rain, hearing the wind and tasting the gwrw!

the_wine_snob wrote:

When talking to the kids about what they had seen, they recalled some Pixar cartoon, that played on the auto's DVD player, in great detail, but could not recall The Painted Desert, the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, towns from the 30's along the old Rt. 66, or anything outside the windows - only a cartoon. Sad, at least to me.

That seems to be way of the world these days - the only real experience is the artificial one.

However, I can say the Grand Canyon is amazing - it's SO big!  How do you get that onto a 6×4 picture postcard?

And the old Route 66 contains much more to take in than the anodyne I40.

Meanwhile, why not check out Scotland? Click here.