Llangollen
There was a vintage transport weekend on at the railway. We went to catch the first train of the day at 9.30, a DMU to Corwen. This was like the ones I used to use from Colwall back in the 70s. From Corwen we took a vintage bus back to Glyndyfrdwy where the were quite a few other buses and lots of cars. The bus we caught reminded me of the buses on the 99 route from Penny Lane in 77/78, and one of the other buses actually had that route number showing but was a more modern bus. There were examples of my parents second, third and fourth cars, ignoring the motor caravan, and of my first car. Then we caught a steam train to Berwyn where we went over the restored chain bridge and up to Horseshoe Falls and to Llantysilio church. Back at the station we were planning to catch the diesel train back to Llangollen but it had broken down and returned empty to Llangollen. So we ended up on the next steam train, the same one we had been on before.
I had arranged to meet Jean and Robin at the basin and they were just arriving as we got back. Took them for a cup of tea on board.
In the evening we went to the Hand Hotel for dinner where we had the Lounge all to ourselves. We had the 3 course meal from the restaurant menu. The one beer that they had was not good.
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