We woke to blue sea and fluffy clouds in a blue sky while inland everything looked quite grey. Before long it was grey here too.
I emerged from a poor night's sleep to hear the sound of rattling bottles outside as the bin lorry arrived much earlier than usual to collect the general rubbish and glass bottles for recycling. Normally they don't come by until mid morning so I missed out on the 3 weekly collection. Luckily we have very little general rubbish partly due to being able to take packaging plastic, the kinds that don't go in the normal recycling bag, to Morrisons every week. I dug a little on the internet and it's not just a publicity stunt, the plastic gets taken to a factory where they produce different grades of plastic pellets to be used in manufacturing. The lorry collecting the general recycling and food waste came later so that went off as usual.
As it wasn't raining we decided to go on a circular walk from Mach again. (I guess having the opportunity to call in at the Royal House Café to stock up on their nice food was a factor as well.) We followed a circular walk that I'd found which proved to have clear instructions which were really easy to follow. I sort of knew the general direction we'd be going and we had an OS map for back up which we didn't need to use. The walk is given as 3.6 miles and with the detour we made to the lake we probably did about 4.1 miles. This was at the limit for Peter's ankles and he was limping noticeably by the end but steadfastly refusing to use the walking stick I had made from a fallen branch. He took some painkillers when we got home and hopefully he won't be suffering any ill effects tomorrow. My legs also felt the strain and with the current tough exercise regime from the physio made me decide not to go to choir tonight.
The first part of the walk took us up a steep slope reaching 700 ft above sea level. This was the hardest part of the walk but worth it for the far reaching views in all directions.
But before following the line of the hill we took a diversion through a forestry section where sheltered from the wind by the mature conifers we marvelled at the utter quiet. Once through the forest we came to Llyn Glanmerin. There we found ourselves a rocky spot overlooking the lake where we stopped to have our lunch.
Back on the Glyndwr Way we had some rather misty views across to Snowdonia. (Mach was down in the valley to our right.)
Eventually the track began to wind its way down the hillside.
Then through a beech wood, past a small farm that had diversified into pheasant rearing and camping as well as keeping sheep until eventually the track got to the spot we had reached last week (just below Wylfa Common) coming in the opposite direction.
From there our directions were no longer needed as we retraced our way to the Roman Steps. Walking through the grounds of
The Plas avoided having to walk back along the main roads to the car which we had left in the Co-Op car park.
This diagram shows the relative incline of the route we followed apart from the diversion to the lake.
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Beautiful countryside.
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