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I’ve been in Bangor for 3 weeks now and everything is going really well! The area around Bangor is so beautiful; there’s the coast, the mountains in Snowdonia, and lots of cute little towns and villages. We have already all done a lot of exploring!<\/p>\n
Last Wednesday after a morning in the GP surgery I decided to take advantage of the sunny weather and go on a walk. I had a Google and found a short walk just a 10 minute drive away from Bethesda around a lake called Llyn Idwal. I parked at a place called Ogwen Cottage, which was lovely and right next to a fantastic waterfall!<\/p>\n
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I walked up to the lake, which only took about 10 minutes. It was surrounded by mountains and was so beautiful, and it was clearly a popular spot as there were lots of hikers and dog walkers. I walked around the lake which took about an hour. The views were amazing!<\/p>\n
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This weekend Ellen, Chloe and I decided to take a trip to Betws-y-Coed, a village in the heart of Snowdonia. It was so lovely, with a river running through the middle of it and lots of shops and cafes to look around.<\/p>\n
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We also visited 2 castles which were nearby. Gwydir Castle was more of a big house than a castle, but it did have some peacocks! Castell Dolwyddelan was much bigger and more impressive, however it was up a big hill which we didn’t fancy walking up in the rain so we didn’t manage to get too close to it.<\/p>\n
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We then headed back to Betws-y-Coed, and had a delicious pub lunch!<\/p>\n
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Overall we have had a fantastic time exploring the area around Bangor and we are hoping to do lots more trips in the year that we are here!<\/p>\n
Ella x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello! I've been in Bangor for 3 weeks now and everything is going really well! The area around Bangor is so beautiful; there's the coast, the mountains in Snowdonia, and […]","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,10,11,6],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-bangor","tag-bangor","tag-bethesda","tag-betsw-y-coed","tag-carer"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}