Spring Break Rewind: North Wales Day 6

We woke up super early for our last day of the trip. Breakfasted, packed and cleared out of our wonderful B&B, gave the owners a card we made (we went on a card giving spree, it was Geier's 40th, and we made one for our awesome coach driver Dave). We napped during the longish ride to the Center for Alternative Technology. We hiked up a very high hill on stairs, and walked in. They had a very cool gift shop full of sustainable things and books. Sadly the center was a bit less interesting. I think it would have been really cool if I were a kid, but I already knew most of what they were saying. Though I did learn that sheep's wool makes good insulation (kinda obvious, but most Americans wouldn't think of that). They had extensive gardens that weren't really doing much yet, and a lot of interactive exhibits. We were all really tired and museumed out at that point. I did enjoy the human sized mole hole under one of the greenhouses though. CAT does a lot of cool things, and is really important to the area, and the whole thing is green, which is neat.


CAT- wind turbine


After buying some organic chocolate and soap, I headed back to the bus (a lot faster going down), and we headed into Machynlleth for lunch. I ended up buying a loaf of freshly baked bread and some Llangollen cheese and some chips for lunch. It was a very good call, esp. since I still had some applewood cheese left. We left the town a bit early hoping to make it back to Cardiff while we could still use printers to print out travel stuff/tickets, which we did. It was a long drive back, and most of us slept most the way, but we did drive through some very beautiful areas. Snowdonia has to be one of the most dramatically beautiful places I've ever been, I think I've said this already, but here's some pictures:

Lots of lakes and mountains
And streams