Wales Grand Tour - Day 8

I finished off the laverbread the next e, being adventurous, I ate it warm with warm toast, it was a lot stronger warm!

After the healthy breakfast, we went to Poppit sands, it was a nice Sunny morning for the beach.

Continue onto St Dogmaels Abbey, the coach house is also a museum, and we learnt about Ogham, Celtic Alphabet.

On recommendation of YHA, we popped down to see Mwnt.  It is a very nice secluded bay, but National Trust wants to charge parking, since we weren't going to spend all day there, we just had a quick look at the old church and left.

We started driving North to Aberystwyth, as we drove, we pulled in a layby outside Aberaeron to enjoy a coffee with a view.

Aberystwyth wasn't too busy on Thursday, we found easily found some free parking, toilet facilities on the other hand weren't free.  We had a fish and chips for lunch with a twist, it was a seabass.  Then we went into town and walked around Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, very nice repurposed theatre.  We walked through Aberystwyth Castle, someone was practicing their BMX tricks on the ruins...  We had some Welsh ice-cream before heading out of town.

We headed inland via mountain road, I was going to stop at the Red Kite Cafe, but they said they were closed online due to staff shortage, so we stopped at Devil's Bridge instead.  I went to Devil's bridge many times with GBMCC, but never tried to see the waterfall.  As it turns out, I wouldn't have anyway, they operate a turnstile system, you have to pay to walk to see the nature, much like Ingleton.

As we drove inland,  the temperature drops,  by the time we for to Rhaydar,  it was 16c,  10c cooler than Aberystwyth,  and started raining. 

We checked into the B&B, the owner was expecting us.  He had a "Four In A Bed Winner" sign on the wall, so we watched it.  We went out for a dinner inside, first time since a long time.  The pub was meant to be the best in town, but it is just a medium size fish in a small pond...

We saw a local history/art centre CARAD, except they are temporarily closed, shame.