Pretenders to the Crown & Alien Nation!

The day starts bright and early for Kenny & Sir Steve, having an overnight halt at Machynlleth, where once Kenny was booked by a Traffic Warden called 'Jake the Pegg' while spectating on the Lombard RAC Rally in 1978! No such dramas this time but off and on to Dolgellau for this mornings recce start.
Coed y Brenin, rarely used these days, was the first forest to be visited. This beautiful wood is fast and flowing, with catch you out culverts! Sir Steve still reckons the crows are birds of prey stating that Buzzards in Wales are the size of Budgies in Oxfordshire - ???!!! I didn't ask! However, on to the mountain road overlooking the Snowdonia mountain range and the pinnacle itself, Snowdon, it is on to Trawsfynydd and the Bala Motor Clubs Ranges. A fast flowing tarmac Selectif which can catch out the best of drivers, is a change from the gravel tests seen earlier in the day. There is one brow that catches most drivers on their first visit, but a carefully placed chicane will make sure there will be no dramas!!! Yeah!

So on to Clocaenog and two Selectifs of quality! The first, a nine miler of fast flowing corners is a tough test before heading across Llyn Brenig and the Llyn Alwyn Selectif with its narrow lanes and tight junctions. Encountered today was another Alien type figure, again clutching UFO debris. It appeared from the long overgrown scrub land and bounced in to the foliage the opposite side of the forest road, never again to be seen! Brandishing a large bow and plastic type sheet, this strange human life form must have built a community with other aliens close by! Maybe there are millions of these life forms walking the planet and all in Clocaenog Forest! So beware, the beast of Bodmin impales in to insignificance compared to this alien life form from Planet Clocaenog!
So after our recce crews shocking encounter today, they are to meet with Owain Glyn Dwr, No, not the Price of Wales, but a pub in the heart of Corwen!

So off to gwelly now - gwelly means bed - and see ya tomorrow when Kenny meets Legends and Sir Steve meets Leg Ends...Lamb Shank to you!

Gud Nite
The Road Ant