Jun. 29th, 2024

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I am getting fed up of Amazon passive aggressively pushing their Prime membership. My elderly friend wanted me to order a book for her, which I'm happy to do. However, Amazon wanted me to sign up for Prime for 0.99p or otherwise pay £3.99 for next day delivery of the book. Normally there is free delivery if you're prepared to wait. Pickup at a post office was available, but our post office is still closed, so it would have meant driving to either Fairbourne or Barmouth. Not far, but not in my plans for next week.

So I've bought it from Abe Books instead.

Re our post office, according to an announcement on Facebook, it will reopen on 25 July, which will be a big relief to local people. The post office counter in the big Spar supermarket does basic things, but we have been without full post office services for a long time now since the ceiling collapsed and the whole building had to be gutted, made safe and renovated.
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This is a favourite walk of ours. I drove us to the car park at Arthog which once used to be a halt on the railway line. Though there's no trace of the station now, access by car from the road to the little car park remains. From there we set off towards the coast.

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A very unusual photo for me! I don't normally include people or things that are moving. The local trekking stables take rides this way to the coast. They have lovely sensible hairy-footed cobs. This was quite a congested moment as a group of young cyclists, shepherded by several adults met the horses just as we arrived at that point. The cyclists seemed to be from a local outdoor pursuits centre of which there are a few in the area.

Horses and cyclists

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A sign on the newly created pilgrim route from Tywyn to Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island). I had to google to find out what this was. I knew of the pilgrim route along the North Wales coast that runs from Holywell to Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), but couldn't see how this path could possibly be part of that route. It turns out that back in May this new route was devised to take people from the church of St Cadfan in Tywyn to the holy island of Ynys Enlli.

This also explains the mystery as to why, when we last did this walk a month or so ago, we met about 20 people on this path. Normally you might see one or at most two people, but such a large group was puzzling. But it turns out that there are organised walks to do the new route in stages, so the people we met were pilgrims.

Llwybr pererin Cadfan

From here it wasn't far back to the car and thence home for a slightly late lunch.



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