Isle of Anglesey - Wales

Way back in April we drove to the Isle of Anglesey with Inge's Aunt Abby to visit some more of Ben's recently inherited "relatives in law" (if there is such a term) in the Cronin's (Mike, Charmaine, Connor and Emma). First I must apologise for taking 3 months longer than Charmaine to post anything from this weekend, but as you can see in our previous post, Sky is to blame for much of that!

Anyway, we had a wonderful weekend and some lovely weather (did we get Summer in April???!!) and it was great to meet some more family - thanks for the big friendly welcome and wonderful hospitality. Ben also enjoyed hiring a car and attempting to make Abby and Inge sick by practicing his racing lines through the winding mountain roads of Wales! It was dark most of the way up fortunately so they couldn't see the large drops from the edge of the road!

Here are some photos taken of the weekend. Ffor Charmaine's photos of the weekend, see: http://the-cronins.blogspot.com/2007/04/abby-inge-and-bens-visit.html. Our first excursion was to the nearby Beaumaris Castle with some fine modelling work by Connor, Mike, Abby and Emma and Ben finding himself on the wrong side of the camera...

Next on the agenda was a nice lunch where Inge and Emma got acquainted and then a wander
through the town where Abby found a doorway where even she'd bang her head!

Next up, a bit of wandering around the neighbourhood and a chance for Ben to take a few
landscape shots:

We then wandered to the local church which has been there since 630AD - people must have
been much shorter then (or severely hunched over) as again, Abby had to crouch down to fit
under the doorway! It also seems in Wales you don't need to go far to find a Jones - unfortunately
this one was dead but shares the same name as my Uncle so I felt compelled to photograph it!
There's also no shortage of slate in these parts - hence everything is made from it!



Sunday was fabulous weather wise and Ben had enjoyed the previous evening watching
the Aussies win the Cricket World Cup, much to Connor's disgust as he'd gone to great
trouble to design and print a go Sri Lanka poster! We took a tour around some lovely
gardens at Plas Newydd (Mum - we managed to get some use out of our National Trust
memberships!) and enjoyed the sun (something we haven't seen in a while!).






So Cronin's, thanks again for a lovely weekend. We hope you're well and that we can find
the time to head back your way soon!

Ben & Inge