Tuesday 5 June 2012

Saturday 26th May – Beddgelert Forest Campsite


Another relaxing day mostly sitting around amongst the bluebells reading. I had bought a book called 'Place of Stones' some years ago second hand and decided to pack it for the trip because it is set in Wales. Written by Ruth Janette Ruck, it is the story of a girl who just after the Second World War moves from a town to run a mountain farm in Wales. I started reading it yesterday and I soon realised that it was set in Snowdonia and, checking on the OS map, I found that the farm was less than 3 miles from the campsite. It gives a fascinating insight into farming and life in rural, isolated Wales at that time. It really is a very good book but given that it was written in 1961 and my copy was published in 1975, I suspect that it is now out of print.
Being slightly more active than yesterday, we decided to visit Beddgelert. The campsite has its own station called Meillionen on the Welsh Highland Railway and at this time of year two scheduled trains pass in each direction. This allowed us one opportunity to visit Beddgelert for a couple of hours. We stood on the platform and put our hand out to stop the train as it is a request stop – rather fun to cause a big steam train to come to a halt just for us!
The train left Meillionen at 12:30 so we took a picnic and headed to the other end of the village, just over the footbridge, to a picnic area. Our Rough Guide book told us that this was the Rupert the Bear garden made to celebrate the fact that the author spent part of his life living in Beddgelert. There were no signs anywhere that mentioned Rupert the Bear but it was a very pleasant spot. We then wandered around the pleasant village until 15:00 when it was time to catch the train back. We had to inform the guard that we wanted to get of at Meillionen and he asked to to get into the guard carriage. Once we had set off he said that we could sit in the first class carriage for the short trip – very pleasant. Beddgelert to Meillionen is a very steep part of the line with an incline of 1 in 40 meaning that the steam engine has to work very hard. Black smoke billows out of the chimney and soot particles rained down on me as a crossed the open section between carriages.
When we returned we had a chat with our nearest neighbours. Last night Iraj and Angela and their other neighbours had spotted that the bird box mounted on a tree beside them had fallen apart and nine blue tit chicks had fallen out onto the forest floor. Campsite staff were called, the box repaired and the surviving chicks put back. We were concerned to find out whether the adults were still feeding the chicks and Iraj and Angela said that they had seen the adults going in and out frequently so hopefully the chicks will survive. We chatted for some time and we invited them over for a drink later and had a very pleasant, relaxed evening in excellent company.


Photos: A pretty row of terraced houses in Beddgelert; Our loco working hard up the steep incline out of Beddgelert; A celebrity sits in the First Class carriage.

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