We called in at Llanymawddwy Church, founded in the 6th century by St Tydecho.
Went to the beach at Barmouth.
And finally went searching for gold, with the aid of a tourist map showing gold mines and large scale OS maps showing nothing. On a tiny mountain road we stopped a farmer.
"Excuse me - are there any old gold mines near here ?"
"About fifteen on this mountain. There's a company been formed to look at the whole area."
I thought he might be winding up a lost Englishman, but he spoke truth. So a happy daughter filled the sandwich box with stream gravel and the car with rocks. We're still crushing them. And I see we really shouldn't have.
There's gold all over the place in the UK - only not much of it.
Finally home - a journey on empty roads through as yet unspoiled mid-Wales. We stopped on a hillside as the sun went down, finished the sandwiches and I took this 360-degree panorama. Got home at eleven.
It took me all this evening and half the night to get the panorama software to work, but that's another story.
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