Aberffraw

Visiting Anglesey for a college reunion, celebrating 50 years since we 68ers first met this Friday, is a good enough excuse to spend the week leading up to the reunion on Anglesey. I wanted to stay by the sea and spend some time walking on the Anglesey Coastal path, it's possible to walk the 125 miles of the coastal path in 12 days according to the website. Looking at an OS map of Anglesey, I decided Aberffraw on the west coast looked like an ideal place to stay, and wanted a sea view if possible.
It turns out that Aberffraw was an important administrative centre for kings and princes for the whole of north Wales for 800 years, there was a royal palace here from where they fought off invasions from Irish, Saxons, Vikings and Normans until 1282.
Staying in a holiday cottage at the edge of the village beside the river Ffraw which covers the road at high tide, is perfect, with views out across the sand dunes and over to the Snowdon range on a clear day. Here's the view from the front of the cottage, with the tide out, so we were able to drive along the road at the front to unload cases when we arrived.

 and another view from the front of the house

 the sky gives an indication as to how changeable the weather was, and fairly quickly there was the first of several rainbows

 More fantastic sky

 and here's Aberffraw beach in the distance, described as 'one of the most stunning beaches in Wales' by Carl Rogers whose book 'Coastal Walks around Anglesey' is superb.

 Being on the west coast, the sunsets should be fabulous, depending on the weather. This was a cautiously good sunset on the first day, I'm hoping for better.

 another view of the sunset from a bit further down the coast.

 and then into Y Goron, a traditional pub in the centre of Aberffraw, for a celebratory drink.