2–7 June 2013
The most remote corner of Wales, ramparts rising like the gates of Mordor, a pilgrim route and Hell’s Mouth
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day 46 – Caernarfon to Nefyn
2 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 26 completed: 469.3 to go: 591
starting the Lleyn Peninsular, race for life, a wrong turn on the dyke, the road goes ever on, I need a knife and glimpse a half-understood fragment of local life
day 47 – Nefyn to Tudweilog
3 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 9 completed: 478.3 to go: 582
a leisurely day, bread pudding and marine biology, seaplanes and wild boar pate
day 48 – Tudweiliog to Aberdaron
4 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 17 completed: 495.3 to go: 565
round the end of Lleyn: fishing, orchids, ham and eggs and a pilgrimage
day 49 – Aberdaron to Abersoch
5 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 21 completed: 516.3 to go: 544
a goat, a bull and a dead calf, a subterranean landscape populated by the Cornish, brought to tears twice, and lost four times, and end in the land of private
day 50 – Abersoch to Criccieth
6 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 20 completed: 536.3 to go: 524
shifting sands and an iron man, coin studded trunks, bright painted huts, and I get to half way,
day 51 – Criccieth to Porthmadog
7 Jun 2013: blog | flickr | audio | map | data
miles walked: 11 completed: 547.3 to go: 513
a short day to start the second half, an ice cream parlour and quay-side bistro, a steam railway and a surreal village