db
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Is driving a necessity? Can do Llandudno on the train in about 2 1/2 hour, and can have a drink
jesus wept, £70 for a return??? no wonder no-one uses bloody public transport!
driving it is, then..
this sound lovely
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jesus wept, £70 for a return??? no wonder no-one uses bloody public transport!
driving it is, then..
this sound lovely
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Err, we've never paid that! Probably helps to have a sprog, makes the journey a lot cheaper.
The tram ride is nice, the cable cars are a little scary due to my fear of floors at a distance. I always walk up, but thats because I like to wander around the graveyard too which is out of the way. Lovely church there, and on a nice day its a really nice stroll.
Agreed, very good there. Next best I know of is at Rhos, its off the main drag but I remember their chips being rather tasty (assuming of course it is still the same people).
Wasn't aware of that one, cheers!
The tram ride is nice, the cable cars are a little scary due to my fear of floors at a distance. I always walk up, but thats because I like to wander around the graveyard too which is out of the way. Lovely church there, and on a nice day its a really nice stroll.
Agreed, very good there. Next best I know of is at Rhos, its off the main drag but I remember their chips being rather tasty (assuming of course it is still the same people).
Wasn't aware of that one, cheers!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
All things considered Llandudno is the best option for places within a 2 hour drive although you can do Southport can be done in under hour and a half.
Llandudno has been kept nice and hasn't suffered the decline that other seaside towns has had. There a number of ways to go up the Orme and the café at the top has memorbila of the boxer Randolf Turpin who owned the café for a while.
Llandudno has been kept nice and hasn't suffered the decline that other seaside towns has had. There a number of ways to go up the Orme and the café at the top has memorbila of the boxer Randolf Turpin who owned the café for a while.
db
#chaplife
Ta muchly. Drawn by myself in the game DrawSomething.
well, now i'm even more impressed!
tek-monkey
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You can cycle it in a day, just not back as well
db
#chaplife
and just as llandudno seems to have won, a new runner enters the race!
good, good, good, excellent, excellent*, lovely, whatev's, lovely!!!
* i assume "duff" in this sense means "good"?
just google mapped it - 80 miles, fairly direct, less than 2 hours - i like the sound of this very very much!!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Actually if you want an old arcade then I can also suggest Towyn nearby, head here and they have penny pushers, those ones where you roll the coins, bets on those little horses etc. I really enjoyed the place, also head over the railway bridge for a fair if thats your thang. Its on your way back from Llandudno regardless.
db
#chaplife
that looks amazeballs! i love old arcades like that, as does ms. db, so this would be a right touch.. it's a bit out of the way, though - darts' talacre beach is winning as the final destination atm, i think..
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Towyn is only 10 miles from Talacre, although that may be 10 miles too far when driving there and back in a day.
db
#chaplife
ah, i didn't realise! as mentioned in the OP, i have no idea about any of these places, so in my head they are all distinct places, very distant from one another lol..
10 miles is here nor there when you've driven that far, innit.. i can feel a plan coming together - you guys are the bestest
db
#chaplife
hmm, actually, looking Point of Ayr. Talacre Beach on google maps, and it appears to be a caravan park/holiday home - i don't see any promenade/pier/etc.
just to be clear - my main criterion here is to eat fish & chips while walking along the seaside.. not on the beach, just along the promenade/pier/etc. i know that's very specific, but it's a fond childhood memory for ms. db (she's from grimsby originally) so i'd like to ensure she can at least get a cone of chips by the seaside
am i just looking in the wrong place on google maps, or is talacre beach perhaps not the place for this?
just to be clear - my main criterion here is to eat fish & chips while walking along the seaside.. not on the beach, just along the promenade/pier/etc. i know that's very specific, but it's a fond childhood memory for ms. db (she's from grimsby originally) so i'd like to ensure she can at least get a cone of chips by the seaside
am i just looking in the wrong place on google maps, or is talacre beach perhaps not the place for this?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Ah, yeah, forget I know the area! Its kind of halfway between Talacre at the nearest point and Llandudno at the furthest, and not to be confused with all the other places that sound like it, such as Twywn. I know this area very well, in part because I don't drive so need to know where buses/trains are headed!
Hopefully between all the suggestions you can find plenty to do in that stretch of Wales for the day. Just to throw in another place, the Cottage Loaf in Llandudnp does some amazeballs food. Probably not a good combination with the fish and chips requirements, but if you are ever there again they used to do a pork belly in cider sauce with mustard mash and black pudding. It was immense! There is also a stunning butchers just round the coast in Conwy, for all your local dead flesh needs.
Hopefully between all the suggestions you can find plenty to do in that stretch of Wales for the day. Just to throw in another place, the Cottage Loaf in Llandudnp does some amazeballs food. Probably not a good combination with the fish and chips requirements, but if you are ever there again they used to do a pork belly in cider sauce with mustard mash and black pudding. It was immense! There is also a stunning butchers just round the coast in Conwy, for all your local dead flesh needs.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
hmm, actually, looking Point of Ayr. Talacre Beach on google maps, and it appears to be a caravan park/holiday home - i don't see any promenade/pier/etc.
just to be clear - my main criterion here is to eat fish & chips while walking along the seaside.. not on the beach, just along the promenade/pier/etc. i know that's very specific, but it's a fond childhood memory for ms. db (she's from grimsby originally) so i'd like to ensure she can at least get a cone of chips by the seaside
am i just looking in the wrong place on google maps, or is talacre beach perhaps not the place for this?
I'd say Llandudno or nearby Rhos then. TBH I'd say Llandudno has the better seaside 'experience' as such, but I personaly prefer the harbour at Rhos. We've often nipped to the aforementioned chippy then eaten them sat on the wall watching the sea. I'd say hit Llandudno as your main aim, then see how the mood takes you? If its not what she's after, move on a bit. After Rhos is the arcades at Towyn too, so on your way back.
Avoid Rhyl like a teenage whore from Rugely with facial herpes, you have been warned. Let no amount of nostalgia tempt you in, try not to look as you drive through it.
db
#chaplife
that is exactly the kind of knowledgeable and decisive answer i'm after - praise be upon you, oh mighty tome of beach knowledge!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Happy to help mate, despite the run down reputation of North Wales its still one of my favourite areas of the UK. The A55 kind of crippled a lot of that area, you can see from the maps where it carves through some towns and killed their tourist appeal, but there are still some gems.
