Anglesey- am I wrong?
Discussion
Sa Calobra said:
Visited Anglesey- this week and didn't like it at all. Yes it was grey skies but beyond blue skies on the beach away from the beaches it just seems like there's nothing there..Just houses. We visited four areas before driving back to deepest Wales.
What did you do or expect?There are plenty of lovely beaches, we have some really good places to eat, places to visit depends on what your interests are, Beaumaris castle, Plas Newydd etc
If you went there expecting Blackpool then no I'm afraid it's not that lol
Dblue said:
Its certainly a little underwhelming outside the bays and beaches and the views of Snowdonia. Pretty ordinary , if pleasant enough , farmland. Less interesting than the Llyn Peninsula and nothing like as spectacular as the scenery the other side of the Menai straights
Kinda agree. As for Blackpool? No. No.
Friends, acquaintances raved about Anglesey-. It's just not for me. Not my thing. I'm more of a forests and mountains type
Sa Calobra said:
Kinda agree.
As for Blackpool? No. No.
Friends, acquaintances raved about Anglesey-. It's just not for me. Not my thing. I'm more of a forests and mountains type
Well as a base to explore Snowdonia it's pretty well located - most of the visitors are either beach driven holidays with the kids or now seem to head off to various locations in North Wales for outdoor activities, ZIP world, Bounce Below, etcAs for Blackpool? No. No.
Friends, acquaintances raved about Anglesey-. It's just not for me. Not my thing. I'm more of a forests and mountains type
The wet rainy day offering has improved ten fold in the last decade or so imho
IanJ9375 said:
Sa Calobra said:
Visited Anglesey- this week and didn't like it at all. Yes it was grey skies but beyond blue skies on the beach away from the beaches it just seems like there's nothing there..Just houses. We visited four areas before driving back to deepest Wales.
What did you do or expect? IanJ9375: Well it's not good enough.
Basil: Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Anglesey hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...
RumRunner said:
Or South side of Llyn....Abersoch
You see, whilst Abersoch remains the upper classes destination of choice for North Wales its also pretty low down the list of places to stay whilst enjoying the area unless you're sailing.Its perfectly nice but if I was staying on the Llyn I'd go to Nefyn every time.
But the mountains are where its at
Dblue said:
You see, whilst Abersoch remains the upper classes destination of choice for North Wales its also pretty low down the list of places to stay whilst enjoying the area unless you're sailing.
Its perfectly nice but if I was staying on the Llyn I'd go to Nefyn every time.
But the mountains are where its at
Slightly bias as I live up the hill from Abersoch (2 miles ) Mynytho with the view when clear to South Wales looking back at the whole mountain range...100yrd walk and a view of all of the Llyn and Snowdon and south..even Wicklow Ireland..Its perfectly nice but if I was staying on the Llyn I'd go to Nefyn every time.
But the mountains are where its at
You're not wrong at all... I actually moved to Anglesey a couple of years back (on a bit of whim) and I'm realising it was a big mistake and I'm looking to move back to the varied countryside and landscape of Derbyshire.
After a while the beaches and coastline just all become a bit 'samey' and boring, and full of visitors and tourists on the few nice days, inland is just flat boring fields full of sheep, interspersed with some of the most run down and grim looking villages and unattractive housing stock I've ever seen anywhere.... I've seen enough grey pebbledash to last me a lifetime.
Even the weather here has been a big disappointment, I realise now all the talk of Anglesey being the ''sunny isle'' and having it's own microclimate is pretty much bulls
t and probably just a marketing ploy, the weather is just as grey and miserable as anywhere else in the UK
And probably the final straw is despite the roads being relatively quiet it is absolutely impossible to go anywhere without getting stuck behind one of the 37mph in a NSL brigade
After a while the beaches and coastline just all become a bit 'samey' and boring, and full of visitors and tourists on the few nice days, inland is just flat boring fields full of sheep, interspersed with some of the most run down and grim looking villages and unattractive housing stock I've ever seen anywhere.... I've seen enough grey pebbledash to last me a lifetime.
Even the weather here has been a big disappointment, I realise now all the talk of Anglesey being the ''sunny isle'' and having it's own microclimate is pretty much bulls
t and probably just a marketing ploy, the weather is just as grey and miserable as anywhere else in the UKAnd probably the final straw is despite the roads being relatively quiet it is absolutely impossible to go anywhere without getting stuck behind one of the 37mph in a NSL brigade
Edited by mike74 on Friday 23 June 06:45
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