day 19

Yesterday we cycled 46 miles from Taliesin to Compenant hostel 5miles from Porthmadog. The weather has been hot all day I'm guessing around 28 to 29 degrees Celsius. We set off at 8:15 to catch the 9:04 train at Dovey Junction apparently the only station in Wales not to have a road up to it. The train took us 30 miles as we missed the others, yay. We got off the train at Fairbourne as my gran's old bungalow was called Fairbourne lodge.  We set off cycling and came to a long old bridge made for the old railway. Our first stop was at a cafe for second breakfast, after that we cycled to Harlech castle and saw a 40% hill! Plus we cycled down it, it was scary and felt like you were going to fall over your handle bars. At 2 we cycled up a big hill and found the Festiniog railway with a steam train to take you around the hill we stopped at a cafe there for lunch before getting on the train to the top of the mountain and back. Most of the time up and down I read my kindle and had an ice cream at one point but when I did look out of the window the views were spectacular. We arrived back at the station and set off again by bike down the hill to Portmadog were we had dinner at a pub with a very nice restruant section. The next thing we had to do was shop at Tesco's for very cheep food which we found for breakfast at the hostel which we are now about to leave as its morning when I'm writing this because last night I didnt have WiFi to weight this upstairs in the hostel. So I'll write to you later about today after we've finished.