| Offa's Dyke
Path - 5
Llangollen - Prestatyn |
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| Offa's Dyke
Path - 5
Llangollen - Prestatyn |
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| Day 12 | Llangollen | Clwyd Gate | 12,3 miles | 19,7 km |
| Day 13 | Clwyd Gate | Bodfari | 12 miles | 19,2 km |
| Day 14 | Bodfari | Prestatyn | 12 miles | 19,2 km |
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| On the way to Llangollen we got used to walking
along the canal. As soon as we leave Llangollen, there's no canal in sight
anymore, the landscape is completely different: bare rocks, hills that start to
resemble mountains.
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And just when we got used to this, we enter another type of landscape: through the moors. Again, something completely different. |
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| After the moors, there's forest, fields and then
it start to get hilly again. This is the beginning of the Clwyd Range, a
beautiful ridge, surrounded by flat land.
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The next morning we continue to walk through the Clwyds. Mirjam finally finds out how to climb those hills: just pretend there will be a bench on top where you can have a cookie break.. |
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| On the highest top
of the Clwyds is the Jubilee Tower, a structure designed to honour King George
just like the pyramids (except that he isn't buried here). And they forgot
the foundation, so a couple of decennia was all it took to let it look like
a heap of stones. It has been renovated, but still looks more like a heap of
stones than a pyramid.
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Our last B&B is supposed to be a farm house, but we thought it could pose as a castle as well. This is about one third of the lounge, you can't see the library-part and the window-part. |
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| The last bit to Prestatyn is a bit of a disappointment. Well, that you have to cross Wales' only motorway is not the fault of the Path-makers. But the Path seems to wind of in any direction except to Prestatyn. It is as if they didn't know how to put an end to it. Finally, after some extra loops and stiles, we walk in the hills overlooking Prestatyn and we approach the main street. |
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| Then we are at the sea, where we can take our picture at the end, somewhere between 168 and 182 miles (there are two different signs standing next to each other) from where we started two weeks earlier. |
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