Dolgellau Wales for the Night!

Our goal each day is to get to our hotel or B&B or Guest House before dark! We are only going 100 to 150 miles a day. But it is winter and it gets dark by 4pm. Breakfast is served between 8:30am and 10am. We usually start eating by 8:30a. We check out at about 9:30 to 10am. That only gives us 6 hours to drive and look at what we want to see. And usually we get lost daily and that takes about an hour each day. So as you can see not alot of time. But traveling this time of year, there are no lines, we just walk up to anything we want to see and walk in, if it is open all year. There have been a few sights that are closed this time of year :( Also we love to see the Christmas Decorations and the lights and all the Christmas Trees! It is so beautiful at night and all the lights are up and blinking and the store windows are all decorated! Well this night wasn't any different! We got lost twice. Once in a town several miles from Dolgellau where we were staying. You get off the main little road and there are lots of tinier roads which are hard to negotiate! They are like spider veins and we were on a maze of them, we had to ask three separate people to find our way out! So we finally got in to Dolgellau and we went right past our B&B in the twilight and went up a hill which was little. We stopped at a house for directions and the two men were not very helpful. We went back down the hill and stopped at a B&B we had seen on the way up. She was friends with them and told us how to get there. It was a piece of cake. We checked in and went to look for food. We weren't real hungry so we just wanted a snack. We found a little cafe and ordered two scones with jam and clotted creme! We went back to the Guest House and it was only 6pm so we watched tv and Bud always hooks everything up charge the computers and phones and camera batteries! He is really good about that! If it weren't for him nothing electronic would work! Oh and I went to get into my backpack to get my charging cords but I felt I was in the way so I moved to a different chair. Continued to look for my ziplock bag full of cords and couldn't find them. I went out to the car and they weren't there. Frustrated and sad and in despair because as you remember I had left some of my toiletries and clothes at the Pottery House in Scotland (I get them tomorrow!) So I was just sad and still relooking when Bud went to look in his daypack and then saw my cords behind the chari! Og I forgot to tell you I had called the B&B we stayed at the night before and he looked for them and didn't find them! I was so relieved!!!! But here are pictures of our B&B and town and breakfast.

This is called a Bacon Buttie! Basically a toasted bacon and tomato sandwich, it was very good!

The town looked like this only I didn't get a picture of the main street!

Then we drove out with directions I got off my map app on my iphone! See how we do getting lost today!

This is a picture of Wooten Hall!

And then we came into Stratford Upon Avon without one wrong turn! I wish I could say that we stayed that was but no, we went to see Anne Hathaways Cottage because when we go lost we were close to her cottage!  Now Anne and William Shakespeare had to  get married because Anne was pregnant and back in those days it was against the law to have sex before marriage because it was against the law to get pregnant before marriage. She was 26 he was 18! As teh guide said: He was her toyboy! Anyway they moved in with his mother because he didn't have a job and he had no money. But he studied and wrote plays and moved to London and worked had while Anne stayed back in Stratford Upon Avon raising their children. He would come home as much as he could. He did become , but not from his plays. He bought land and that is what made him rich!  He became famous from his plays. He came home more often and more often from London and stayed in Stratford. He was a country boy at heart. The researchers seem to think he was going to retire and live in Stratford and write plays and poems when he died at the age of 52! Anne lived until 67 years of age. She had three children, Susana, and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet dies when he was 11 years old from the Bubonic Plague.

Bud took both of these  pictures in the garden! Awesome!

Bud took this one too! This is made from a potato with feathers on it to scare the animals away!