In the rain, found my way under two underpasses (Google Maps does not do underpasses), to Llandudno Junction rail station, where boarded the #25 bus to Bodnant Gardens.
The gardens are gorgeous, and, due to the weather and my early arrival time—9:00 a.m. when the gardens open—I had the place, and it is a BIG place pretty much to myself, so you might say it was peaceful!
Who would not like to look like this at 100?
Because of the rain and because it is so bloody annoying to deal with photos on Blogger, I am not sure I chose the best few to elicit oohs and ahhs.
There are streams and waterfalls in many areas of the gardens:
Some areas are just lush:
Sweet little sweat peas
And sturdy deep purply-blue daisy-like flowers:
Flowers in the water, too:
There were towering trees. In fact the tallest Japanese Maple and the tallest Sequoia in the UK are in this very garden. Of course, there are much bigger sequoias in the US. How Trumpian is that? (The tree below is not of either above mentioned species, but I loved the way its branches fell so low.
After the gardens and the bus ride back to Conwy, I visited Conwy Castle. Massive. Massive walls massive spaces, massive towers. In short, it is big, even more Trumpian that the trees, and dates from the time of Edward I, who, to the Welsh, was not kind.
The view from the gaps in the turrets (or whatever) yield a view quite different from that that old Edward and his men had:
Even a fighting man needs time to think once in a while:
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