Finding #Nebo- exploring #NorthWales' lesser known roads.

Some pictures of rural North Wales and the Snowdonia National Park today. We went for an explore, as we like to upset the SatNav by totally ignoring its instructions. We are also mildly amused by our guide's attempts to pronounce Welsh place names (try driving past  Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (lan-vire-pool-guin-gith-go-ger-u-queern-drob-ooth-clandus-ilio-gogo-goch), which translates roughly as "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave" if you want to rupture its circuits.)

  We took the B roads- or possibly even some C roads- one track affairs where you only meet working Land Rovers and tractors. And sheep. There were quite a lot of sheep.
  The views here are dominated by the Snowdonia mountains and National Park, a haven for walkers, mountain bikers and climbers, and for those who like to exert a little less energy, sight-seeing, coffee shops and a little light photography. We tend to fall into the last category, these days.
 

 We  (that is, the OH and I- the P&J wasn't with us- he was out on a warm up ride prior to another go at Conwy Mountain) keep talking about putting our boots on and doing some shorter walks, to build up our stamina, but the OH has yet to get a pair of suitable boots. Why he has no boots, I don't know, as he had several pairs last time I looked; in fact, I did, at one time, think they were the start of another one of his collections. But let's not dwell on that.
Most of these pictures come from the
Llanrwst- Nebo area, with a couple 
taken on our way back through the 
Park to the coast. And, as a reason for going wherever we were going, we decided on the Finding Nebo theme,
which took us on a lot of one vehicle roads, through Capel Garmen and onto Nebo. 
  This is a time when the SatNav comes into its own, as it is easy to get lost in this kind of landscape- where narrow roads can go on for ages, with no turnings and no one to ask for directions. The advantage over a paper road atlas is, of course, a SatNav will show you where you actually are, even when  you haven't a clue.
 As we were wandering around, we came across a sign post into some fields, indicating a burial mound somewhere among the sheep. The OH sent me off to investigate, as the only place to park on the single track road was in someone's gateway. Followed by a group of German tourists, who appeared to be in the middle of a walk, I trudged through the fields. The tourists gave up early on, but I continued through the sheep until I

found the thing. Here it is. I'd love to tell you all about it, but it is so in the middle of nowhere, I couldn't find anything about it. Anyway, here's a picture.
  On my way back to the car, I stopped to help a lamb, who was on the wrong side of a fence, to get back to its mum. However, despite physically taking the creature by the scruff of its neck to the stretch of fallen fence that would enable it to be reunited, and despite its mother calling to it, the stupid creature ran off in the opposite direction. Thick as two short planks.
There are a few more photo's, which I will stick on Pinterest in due course. We did eventually find Nebo, and our way back to the A470 and home, thanks to satellite navigation. See, sometimes technology is very useful.