Today we walked around the Llyn Trawsfynydd. The lake was created when a nuclear power station was built and needed the water for cooling. The power station is being decommissioned and although it isn’t a thing of beauty I prefer to think of it as an old castle (it looks a bit like an old castle from a distance).
'That box at the far end of the lake is the power station.
I got the name of the lake mixed up with Transylvania (I don’t know why) it starts with a T and it’s a long word with a y in it! I have no evidence that vampires roam the area but you never know?
This was the reward for completing the circuit. That what I call payback!
Tonight we will do the annual ritual of listening to the Eurovision Song Contest. The format goes as follows:- we start by being enthusiastic, listen to half the songs and realise that they are all indistinguishable but persevere to the end of the entries. We then hear a quarter of the results and realise that no countries like the UK irrespective of whether our song is any good and then we turn off. I still maintain that if we got more votes in the Song Contest we wouldn’t have voted for Brexit. I actually like the UK song for this year, it’s a ‘proper’ song sung by a ‘proper’ Yorkshireman! No it’s not called ‘Ilkley Moor ba tat’.
Sunday 23rd May 2021 - still at Gellilydan. Another bloody rainy day.
Sunday 23rd May 2021 - still at Gellilydan. Another bloody rainy day.
I feel like a rant. We listened to the Eurovision Song Contest on the radio. We could have streamed it using mobile data but we wanted to judge the songs on the quality of the song only rather than the visual antics. We thought that Italy would win and we thought that James Newman’s singing performance was poor but the song was decent. We would have scored him about half way amongst the contestants. We went to bed before the voting started. When we woke and to find he had been given nil points we were flabbergasted. It can’t just be voting on merit….the Brits are not popular and haven’t been for a long time. I would like the votes to be given to the songs without the nations being revealed and then get a fair result.
I’m taking my ball home! Literally. We have to be home for a doctor’s appointment on Thursday and the weather forecast is poor for the next couple of days, so we are going home tomorrow. We are keeping our options open and May get away again very soon but it may depend on the weather.
We passed the rest of our day by going for our first post-lockdown pub lunch. There is a pub just outside the caravan site and we had booked in for a Sunday Roast. They had lost our booking but gave us a table without a quibble. We both had the beef roast and were impressed. It was a good portion of beef, Yorkshire pudding, mash, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrot, peas and gravy….we were even more impressed when the cauliflower and broccoli cheese and green beans came out on a separate platter. We had a cheesecake to follow too! We weren’t sure what the prices were so we were further impressed when the bill arrived and we found out the main course was less than a tenner. I’m liking Welsh prices! We didn’t feel too strange going inside for the first time and we were well spaced.
Talking of covid rules it seems stranger to use the toilet block on a Caravan Club site. They have only just opened up the toilet blocks for customers use but there is an elastic band system to regulate the number of people using the toilets. I can hear your brains ticking over, thinking how do elastic bands regulate people going to the toilet and where would you fit them and how tight would you need to apply them! Well, it’s not that kind of system. They have a small bucket of Milton sterilising fluid outside the toilet block with two elastic bands in the fluid. You take one out and hang it on a hook as you go in the toilet and on the way out you put the band back into the fluid. By doing this only two people can use the toilet area at a time. It seems a little silly to me especially when there are separate cubicles for toilets, wash basins and showers. This system is in place throughout the whole network of sites around the country. I can just imagine the high level discussions on various options and how they came up with this method. Don’t get me wrong, I know we have to be sensible about coronavirus but a consistent approach would be good with an emphasis on personal responsibility. An over cautious approach can be counter-productive….I’m surprised they haven’t taken to the doors off the hinges so we don’t have to touch the doors or have some new instruction on hovering over toilet seats!
Yes, it’s definitely time for me to go home. Bring on the sunshine….soon please coz my cycle is rusting up!
So this is the end of this blog. Hwyl fawr…..which means goodbye.
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