Criccieth - Friday

 Our last full day in Wales.

In the afternoon we met Dan in Porthmadog and walked along the old tramway and through Tremadog up the hill behnd, through old woods with slate waste spilled down the cliff, horse grazing fields.  past a elephant shaped broken branch

and as far as we could go, where a house had been built over the track. In the evening Dan brought  Krisie, who'd been working during the day, to join us for dinner in Criccieth.  

Since we’d had our fish on Thursday to avoid the long queues at the chippie, we had our second takeaway from Dylan’s - and there was a 90 minute wait before collection because they were so busy. I had a hamburger because Joan had raved over it last time, this time she had grilled chicken breast burger which she said was even better. Grrr.

While we waited we had as aperitif N.V. Co-op Cava (Spain, Cava). Again I was impressed with the quality of this fizz which cost just £6.75. 

With the food we had 2014 Château Tour St Bonnet (France, Médoc), Lovely ripe claret and 2019 False Bay Pinotage Bush Vine (South Africa, Coastal Region) I bought two bottles of this in Pwllheli. It rings all the right bells: bush vine, wild ferment, cask aged. But I didn’t like it, it had a strange taste I couldn’t nail, one suggestion was violets. I’ll have to try the remaining bottle some time.

Saturday we drove home, stopping for a scone at Dobbies in Shrewsbury for lunch.

The following Friday Wales started a two week national lockdown.