APRIL 23 - Fairly early start out of Caernarfon to the south east. First order of business is to wash and vacuum out the car. The last few days have seen a lot of bombardment by gulls, and the inside of the car was a mess after the beaches of west Ireland. The morning’s route takes us through the Snowdonia NP again, but this time we enter a lower range of forested hills with stands of alders, cedars, and firs. Numerous rocky streams incise the terrain. This gives way to some higher, bare rock mountains and finally the topography smooths out as we come into Welshpool, near the eastern boundary of Wales. By early afternoon the countryside is just rolling farmland.
The flatter terrain and larger population of the area east of here makes for unexciting driving onward, on a ring road around the south of Birmingham and into the small town of Redditch. I had no particular interest in going here, it just happened to be a convenient stopping point.
