Driving to Portmeirion in Wales with me @c0ff33a ☕️

On Tuesday March the 20th I spent the whole day driving...320 miles round trip (515km) to a little village on the Welsh coast. The picture above, with that quaint Castle on the mountain top looks wonderfully scenic doesn't it. If only all the journey was this nice! I would have stopped to take some photos but I was running late for the job I had to do.
For rough guidance here is the route I took.

The dark blue path is the one my car Sat Nav so Kindly decided to route me - because it is the shortest distance, not the quickest though because it takes you over the mountain tops and along roads barely wide enough for my car - that are still two way roads! Honestly if I met a car going in the opposite direction on some of those stretches one of us would be reversing a long way! The full video is below, feel free to set it off and listen to the music while you read through the rest of this post.

Skip to 15 minutes to avoid the boring Motorway and enjoy instead the wonderful Welsh mountains.

Believe it or not this is a road, looks like a footpath right? Not only is this a road - it's a two way road! I was so lucky on some of these sections no vehicles were heading towards me - it's isolated and remote but you still get traffic up in the mountains.

This bend is at the end of a long straight, I can imagine on a dark night putting the pedal to the metal on the straight - reaching this bend and launching straight off that bank at the side and into the lake! I wonder how many cars are rusting away at the bottom of that, it's not like those reflective sticks are going to stop anything!

And here is what happens when you do get it wrong on these mountain roads, on the right the very nice shiny new BMW hatch back has parked at a jaunty side on angle in a ditch! The driver is sat with his friend in the BMW Estate to the left - no doubt waiting for a tow out - although it looked expensive to me even if cosmetic damage only. Boy's and their expensive toys, no doubt this pair were having a little race up these winding roads.

Heading back down the mountains to my destination, we pass these Slate mines - quite amazing to see all the slate just lying around on the sides of the mountains.

Eventually we reach my destination - after a little detour. The postcode took me too far up the small village Porthmadog so I was not in the correct section for my customers coffee shop. While distracted by messages from the office, I misread the address's and re-routed to their other coffee shop in the actual Village of Portmeirion. I would have liked to take a look around and grab some photo's - but by this time I was already 45 minutes late - plus after the training work I had to do in the coffee shop I still had to drive back home. So all you get is a drive by of the village made famous by The Prisoner TV series.

Thanks again to @avesa for providing the back tracks to this video section.

And there you have it, my Tuesday I left home at 10am and got back at 7.30pm. The actual Barista Training I did at the coffee shop lasted for one and a half hours, I would have taken some pictures in the coffee shop but they were closed for a few days for a refurb so it was a bit of state and I was slightly vexed from all the driving! The drive back was a bit quicker - I was eager to get home for my tea.

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