Cruisers turn Tourists at Llangollen

Moored Llangollen

For sure, something a bit different today as me and Vic turned tourist for the day!.. Firstly a walk down to the ‘end’ of the Llangollen Canal along the towpath.  No boats are allowed down the last 2 miles, although there is a tourist trip boat pulled by a horse.  There is nowhere to turn down there you see, and it is fairly shallow.  The trip boat goes to the end, then the horse is unhitched and taken to the other end of the boat to pull her back.. so a bow and stern at each end!

A lovely name for the end of the canal.. Horseshoe Falls.. but it is no waterfall as such, this is the fall in the shape of errrrrrrrrr.. well you know!

From here there is a small feeder to the Llangollen Canal, and the flow is controlled from a building.. and that building is all there is at the ‘end’ of the canal with the feeder coming from underneath it.

A dipper.. never seen one before..

After strolling on the banks of the Dee for a while we made our way to the train station nearby, Berwyn.  We were a bit early so we sat on the station and polished off our lunch, well it was almost one o’clock and there wasn’t anything else to do!

We took the train to Carrog via Glyndyfrdwy.. blimey all these names.. here we are passing through Glyndyfrdwy!

Notice the milk churns on the trolly.  On each of the stations there were relics of a time gone by, it really was lovely, the views along the way were great this one from inside the train…

And once we had got to Carrog we had time to get off the train and look around before the return trip, this time all the way back to Llangollen..

Look, there is Lucy on the station having enjoyed the trip back.. well I say enjoyed, no doubt she would rather have walked back!  Anyway from there it was into the town for some more tourist stuff.. first of all ‘THE’ photo looking across the Dee from the bridge in Llangollen, with the Corn Mill on the far bank and the train station on the left bank as you look

You can’t knock a view like that even if the weather had closed in somewhat.. but hey we are in Wales, that’s what happens in Wales.. at least it wasn’t misty.  You know, if you have seen the mist you have missed the scene.. Teehee!

Visiting the ironmongers, bakers, post office and deli before having a bite to eat in the Bull pub, with a handy outside covered area for smokers and those with dogs.. we are now, of course, the latter!

So apart from getting the stick of rock, we arrived back aboard No Problem after a very enjoyable day out as a tourist.. now that doesn’t very often happen!.. Tomorrow we are out of here, the weather should be good, and by the look of some of the comments left on the blog, our exit from Llangollen will be somewhat faster!