Bee

So other Mrs.BB, Eldest & I drove across to Llandudno for a walk. We parked on the seafront at the edge of the town and yomped around the toll road in an anti-clockwise direction, diverting briefly uphill to St.Tudno's Church where the main blip was taken.

Beatrice Blore Browne, aka Bee, was a fierce boundary breaking young woman who in 1914 drove a 10 horsepower Singer car up the Great Orme's 1 in 3 Cable Hill. As you may see from in the extra, her grave is marked quite strikingly & drew my attention immediately!

Dropping back down to the toll road, we continued around to the northern tip of the Orme before turning back inland and upwards to find the summit. On an average day there would have been views towards the Wirral Peninsular to the East, Snowdonia to the South & Anglesey to the West, but today was Saturday and we were enveloped in what my friends in Edinburgh tell me is Haar. The scale models in the extra were there for slope soaring but were grounded due to the Orme's lack of an instrument landing system ;-D

The trig point at the top overlooks the cable cars approaching their summit terminus and I had to wonder whether the passengers felt a little short changed for having no view but thick fog for most of the way up. Whilst following the cables for part of the way down towards Llandudno, we heard the occasional "Hai!" from above as ascending & descending gondolas passed each other :-)

There was a competition going on at the dry ski slope which was fun to watch for a short while before dropping into the botanical gardens and back into the town for a bite to eat before heading home. What a lovely place Llandudno is... definitely somewhere for a return visit :-)