Our holiday was almost over and we began our return journey to London. The weather forecast for the day was sunny with no showers predicted. We went to Conwy Falls which is located a few miles on A5 southbound from Betws-Y-Coed. Apparently this falls had a Victorian ladder for Salmon fishes to go upstream. The falls itself isn't really impressive and they charge £1/person to enter to view the falls. On A5 we found a lot of sports cars in the northbound direction. I presume it was a weekend run and with the weather being dry, a group might have decided to enjoy themselves on the country roads.
From A5 we took A543 to get to the Denbigh Castle ruins. I thought that the entry would be free as the Castle was in ruins. But to my disbelief they were charging £3/person. We decided to take some photos from the outside and continued our journey home. Our next stop was the "Historic Market Town" of Ruthin. Following A543/A525, we got to this town and could not find anything interesting in the town. The only thing we were enjoying was the ride on the country roads. From Ruthin, there were no further scheduled visits. So we were onto A494 and joined A5 to Llangollen.
We stopped at Llangollen town centre for some drink and snacks. There was a pretty big group of Harley riders ready to start a run somewhere. I just love these out of city places for the fact that there is a group for every sort of activity or interest. Either these group gatherings don't exist in big cities or it's hard to find by.
Once we got past Llangollen on A5, the roads opened up and we started eating up the miles. I was in no mood to stop until we burnt most of the fuel. Nearing Birmingham on M6, I'd an option to refuel at a Services in 3 miles or at the next at 49 miles. The fuel indicator showed that there was enough fuel for about 50 miles but I wasn't so sure because my bike has never given more than 130-140 miles to the tank and going by the fuel indicator I'd be able to do 160+ miles to the tank. Finally I decided to keep chugging along to the next services some 49 miles away. Got to admit that I had an eye on the fuel indicator throughout.
We did manage to get to the Croley Services on M6 with about 15 mile fuel window. After having a late lunch, we reached our home in London just after 1730. A wonderful trip had finally come to an end.
We did a total of close to 1000 miles out of which 500 miles were on the beautiful country roads. I'd the extra pleasure of being able to ride out the twisty/flowing roads. I feel more confident on the bike now that I trusted the bike on the country roads.
This would go down as one of our best holidays, I suppose. I certainly got to thank my lovely wife for happily accepting to take our bike. In a sense the biking gear helped us to get to a lot of places despite the constant heavy rain showers. The long wait for such a good holiday was worth it after all.
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