A Day at the Light House

A  light house seemed fitting for north Wales; rough bluff and expansive sea, craggy cliffs and who gets to stay in a light house anyway.

Great Orme's Head boasts a light huse and paying guests can stay in one of three rooms that used to be functioning rooms in a real light house. The timber fittings are solid and rich, the holes on the windows fitted telescopes through and the viewer can see Angelsey, The Isle of Mann and up and down the coast.

Cashmere goats clamber up the rocks and a storm scuds past. The sunset is beautiful, apparently Turner used such scenes in his paintings.

Llandudno is the near village and the toll gate collects the pounds from visitors from the town and from tourists. There is a long one way road that takes you right round the peninsula and is bound by a rough stone wall interspersed by seats placed for the cyclist or walker to contemplate the vast ocean and its vagaries.