Snowdonia under canvas (Snowdonia National Park)

Member Name: baldeagle

Product:	Snowdonia National Park
Date:	26/08/00 (113 review reads)
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Advantages: Unspoilt landscape on Wednesdays

Disadvantages: Too many folk at weekends

Living and working in Birmingham has advantages. It must be one of the best cities in the UK to leave. In less than three hours I can be in the Lake District or North Wales, and in a little more than an hour more, in Cornwall.

Snowdonia is where I usually go for day trips or weekend visits to escape the urban environment, and the journey by motorbike is fine, once West of Shrewsbury.

Once in the Snowdonia National Park, I usually camp in the Ogwen valley, surrounded by 3000 foot hills and not much else. The best time to visit Wales is Wednesdays, because most of it is shut, and therefore not heaving with visitors.

On arrival I find that the pressures of city life soon melt, and I can commune with nature in its raw state, a feeling reinforced by my preferred campsite - facilities are a loo and a cold water tap - what more do you need?

If showers and stuff were added, not only would it attract many more visitors, but I would find that my weekend break under canvas would cost me more than three pounds for two nights - no thanks.

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