The next stage in our North Wales tour was a visit to the seaside town of Llandudno, where after a brief wander, we caught the tram to the top of the Great Orme, to enjoy the ride and the view from the top. The tram is cable pulled, like the funicular railways I’ve seen at Aberystwyth and Seaburn, but it’s on a more ambitious scale, running partly over roads between houses as it makes its way to the halfway point, where you get out, walk through the building where the winding equipment lives, then board a second tram to the top.
Once you get up there, there’s a superb view, and the usual shop, cafe, bar and other such things to visit. You can even get a cable car, should you be so inclined.
After a while, we headed back down for some lunch and a walk along the pier, where a gull couldn’t decide if he wanted to pose for a portrait or not. Here are the pictures:
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- Llandudno Grand Hotel
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- Memorial
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- That’s lunch sorted, then
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- Grumpy
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- Old Tabernacle
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- Empire Hotel
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- The tram approaches
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- Fish Tram Chips
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- Names
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- Great Orme Goat
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- Geoff on the Great Orme
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- View from the Great Orme
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- Cable Cars
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- Great Orme buildings
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- Cable Cars
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- Looking inland
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- Summit marker
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- Church
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- Names and hills
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- Quarry
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- Along the coast
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- Along the coast
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- The tram leaves
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- Good signal up here…
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- Hills and coast
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- You want me to pose now?
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- What are you looking at?
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- That’s it, I’m off
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- Boats
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- Pier light
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- Year of the pier
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- Mr Punch
Nice shots.
What’s the ‘memorial’ in honour of? And was it like looking in the mirror when you took the shot of the horny old goat?
Wait…
Did I say that out loud?
IIRC, it’s a war memorial of some kind – I didn’t check the base, and no, but I was worried that Geoff might not get away…