Wales Day 3

Another busy day today: a slate mine, 2 castles a slate museum and a ride to the top of Snowdon on the train to look at the view of the inside of a cloud - not to be missed.
The slate mine tour was really interesting and nicely lit, they even store cheese down there while it matures.

I think we'd been here before.

The second castle was new to us and we found it wandering towards the slate museum because it looked like rain. The Hydro electric plant behind Geoff took bookings for tours but the next available one was Saturday.

 

We didn't really have time to see everything at this free museum.

 

The ride up the mountain takes an hour and the you get 30  minutes at the top to look round, it was cold (-1 with wind chill factor), windy and slightly cloudy while we were there so we ate do-nuts while we waited to come back down. The views going up and down were awesome, the railway had a policy of asking you to switch sides in the carriage so you got to see both sides.