Beaumaris

I would have loved to have taken this picture, but its not mine, unfortunately.

When I was looking for a house on Anglesey, I had really got my eye on a town that I knew from a visit when I was 17yrs old. I sort of fell in love with Beaumaris then. But after hearing about some recent flooding, and also that the house prices had really shot up beyond what I was prepared to pay for a tiny terraced house, I gave up the hunt there.
But its been fun to pop in to Beaumaris and see how this nice town has changed. When I was 17, I went on holiday with a friend, Jill, and we slept in my car a lot, one night in the Anglesey Boat Company yard. It was a stoney, gravel car-park... with a view across the Menai straits, a few old boats around, lots of fishing boats..that was back in the 1970s.
Now, its so different, a shop, a garage, and yachts and more motor yachts... the rich and hope to be rich have a mooring here. I can't even be sure where the car park is now, and as for fishing boats... maybe there are a few... ?
Anglesey Boat Company now
Anglesey Boat Company in the future
Amazing how its changed...

Whenever any Brit tourist goes to the beach, we have to have ice-cream, even if the wind is blowing a gale and its pissing down with rain. I took this picture showing those mountains in background with this eyesore in-front. Beaumaris looking like any British seaside resort.

But just walk to the sea a little... turn cam to avoid the grockle stuff and I see this.

This is another view of Beaumaris, please note the George and Dragon which serves a good pint of Guinness and even has Scrumpy Jacks on draught (OK, Wops?)

Another view of the town showing the Castle at the end