Wales (4)

Friday being our last full day in Wales we decided to head south along the coast. We took a detour to New Quay which seemed to be a typical coastal holiday village before cointinuing to Cardigan where we hoped to spend a bit more time. Our inexperience with local customs showed mightily when we turnd off the main road into Cardigan. (We should have been warned by the fact that an earlier turn into the town was blocked off). We discovered that Friday is market day in Cardigan (and probably in many other country towns). The streets were crammed with stalls, pedestrians, and very slow-moving one-way traffic - a bit like an Ikea store. We followed down through the town looking for a carpark which we eventually found down on the quayside but was full to overflowing.

Negotiating our way out of the car park we still had to follow the one-way system which lead us back to the main road - at the junction which had been blocked off when we approached from the north so we had no option but to turn onto the highway heading north! We could have turned around further on and headed back south again past Cardigan but didn't really have sufficient motivation. We stopped in Aberaeron for lunch and a walk around on the way back. We found a little cafe on the main road which seemed to be the right sort of place for us to eat but it turned out to be the unfriendliest place we had come across in all of our travels. After waiting for some sort of indication that they might be interested in finding out what we wanted, we got up and walked out. Its doubtful that they even noticed!

Since we had re-packing to do and expected to be travelling further on Saturday we headed back to our cottage and a bit of veging-out.