So, I have got my other half a known gift, which is 2 tickets to the Natural History Museum in London for their valentines night, they have the beautiful or ugly creates late night tour thing. We are doing the ugly and scary creatures. But, the second is at the end of February, she knows we are going away for the weekend on the bike, but she seems to think it's just a few days off with the chance of a ride out on one of the days. I'm looking at a weekend in Wales, north Wales to be exact. Snowdonia, I've been before and the landscape is just stunning. I'm hoping to stay in a lodge/holiday home, that's wooden and has a jacoozi (awww yeaaa). But, during the day, what can I do? She likes archery and things like that, any nice villages to see/visit? We will be on the bike during the day so not limited by transport. I will hopefully have a GPS by then, but might need to depend on good old fashion map reading. Thanks! EDIT: I have free climbed several routes around Wales. Speaking of Snowdonia, I've climbed the horseshoe before, not the easy walking route, the proper route. Took hours and was simply stunning the entire time. I noticed the walking route which is just a man made path up to the peak, is fairly easy when looking down on the people walking it. Has anyone done it? Or at least taken the train up to the peak?
That's why I have textiles and appropriate gloves/boots (both sidi boots and alpinestar 365 gloves... But they were fine going to Belgium and back on Boxing day?).
But will they be fine climbing 1000m up the side of some welsh hill... ;-) Theres a few slate museums which are slightly more interesting than they sound, slightly, and if you feel brave there is that zip wire run and the powerfan leap both north wales from memory
Go and do the Fan Dance, you'll love it. Storey Arms, over corn du, up the 'fan then down to torpentou (spelling?) station then turn around and get back to the storey arms. You have 4 hours
ffs get a grip man anyway , walking up a signed path to Snowdon is OK for the averagely fit person - not great at this time of year you need to make sure the weather looks ok for the day - nice place to pop the question at the top though :wink: (I'm assuming your not married ) take her to see the waterfalls (worked for me) Visiting Waterfalls in Wales Tallest & Walk Under Waterfall UK
Doing it again in 2 weeks... First time I did the fan dance I though I was going to die, I couldn't find a happy medium between hot or cold, one minute sweating buckets. Strip down to t-shirt, suddenly frozen. Going with mates for that though.
It's all about trying to keep the wind off you when you're up high and switching your brain off on jacobs ladder. It's a grizz but the RAF Reg. do it on their Pre-Para Selection course so it can't be that hard. Some of them even pass it
So you're going to North Wales on a bike two up in February as a romantic get away. This means that you are an optimist (which we established when you went cross-Channel on Boxing Day). You may also be an idealist (imagining that your other half enjoys discomfort as much as you), or she's a masochist, or just ridiculously in live with you. Or she's as hard as nails.
