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Blaenau Ffestiniog

Thursday 20th March

In the heart of the beautiful Snowdonia National Park in Wales, Blaenau Ffestiniog is not only nearly impossible to spell, but it’s also so rubbish that they have a 2-mile radius around the town which has to be undesignated as national park.

It’s also the hometown of Glyn Wise and apparantly it’s really depressing when it’s raining. I can’t wait!

Written by stu

March 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Posted in Curiosities, Travel

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11 Responses to 'Blaenau Ffestiniog'

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  1. But it’s got slate mines and a widdle railway and lots of taffies! Are you going to try to speak taffese?

    sweavo

    20 Mar 08 at 11:34 am

  2. Ooh… I never thought of trying to speak Welsh. I guess that’s a pretty good place to do it.

    Don’t people tend to get on the widdle railway at Portmadog so they don’t have to spend too long in Blaenau? ;)

    stu

    20 Mar 08 at 11:41 am

  3. We went to Blaenau last summer and it was raining but still beautiful in its own way (slate everywhere!). I’d give the slate mines a bit of a miss as they seem perfectly happy to charge you a fortune for virtually nothing. The by-pass they’re currently building was somewhat more diverting (literally!). If you’re in that area, I can highly recommend Beddgellert as a way of spending a few hours in tranquility (the grave is very good).

    Carol

    20 Mar 08 at 12:32 pm

  4. It never not rains there.

    The slate museum is good though.

    Rich

    20 Mar 08 at 1:15 pm

  5. Going by the comments, it’s changed a bit since I was there. It was total crap then, the high spot of the village was the chip shop.

    It WAS raining though, so I support Rich’s comment

    Gottle

    20 Mar 08 at 2:08 pm

  6. hmm, beddgelert… that suggests dolfriog hall is not far, since ISTR walking from the latter to the former.

    sweavo

    20 Mar 08 at 2:51 pm

  7. not that there’s anything to see there, unless the rusty digger is still by the side of the path. It was twenty*AHEM* years ago now though.

    sweavo

    20 Mar 08 at 2:54 pm

  8. Sheep in the street. Rain. Talk Welsh (but swear in English). Llechwedd Slate Cavern. The Festiniog railway buffet car is the only place to get a beer on a Sunday. Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station

    lordhutton

    20 Mar 08 at 4:43 pm

  9. Hutters and I once spent a romantic week in Maentwrog (just a tad to the south-west).
    I thought it was quite nice.

    henry

    22 Mar 08 at 11:33 pm

  10. Waaay, been there lots of times, but keep meaning to catch the train :)

    DoGGa

    23 Mar 08 at 11:24 am

  11. Slate grey but beautiful in it’s own way!

    jane

    24 Mar 08 at 7:18 pm

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