What an awesome 4 days!
Firstly a HUGE thanks for Nick for organising a very packed schedule of plaes to visit and things to see. Here's my memories from the trip:
Thursday, drive up to Huddersfield hood up all the way and without a hitch except for my phone/gps giving up 50 yards from Nick's house and me driving past! I was treated to a huge bowl of delicious chilli (thanks Nick's mum!) with sour cream (thanks Kim!) and a beer (thanks Nick!) whilst hearing of Nick's plans for the coming days. I didn't think I would sleep as I was so excited, but I drifted off to a lovely, comfortable sleep...
Friday, after a milkshake at MacDonalds we went for a great drive through snake pass visiting a pub along the way with pool lessons from Graham and Iain and taking a few pics for (hopefully) next year's calendar. After a special toilet break for Kim

we negotiated some VERY narrow lanes and finally met up with Terry and Ben and then headed on to Conwy for some delicious chips by the seaside with the sun shining. Leaving Conwy with admiring glances from pedestrians along the way, we made our way to the campsite which is where I decided to make my own little detour
After a rather sheepish Shaun finally joined the others, and we made our was to the campsite which was very good with a friendly owner, trees all around to shelter from the breeze and super-hot running water. After pitching the tents, we grabbed supplies and had a BBQ in the sunshine, all totally awestruck by the excellent weather on our first day.
Saturday was another day of excellent weather and the drive around the Evo Triangle was incredible with great views and more potential calendar photos. After stopping for a special photo at Capel Curig, we had a great lunch at ??????, wandering round for a while and soaking up more sun and having a lovely Ice Cream courtesy of Iain. We had another long drive back to the campsite (via one of the places where I took my own detour the day before

) and had a walk around and inside the incredible Penryn Castle and it's Bog Gardens. Saturday was Nick's Supreme Pasta Night and it was another good night around the campfire.
Sunday, we woke to cloudy skies but it didn't matter due to another great piece of planning by Nick - we went indoor Karting. I wasn't looking forward to the karting to be honest, but once on track I, like everyone else, had a great time - it was great fun and little Ben was watching on eagerly - only a couple more years before he's on there lapping us (which is probably what he was dreaming about on the way home) It was good to watch the Grand Prix in the Blue Bo(u)y, talking through our karting "best moments" and having a bite to eat while outside proper Welsh weather was lashing down. In the afternoon we fought to keep awake through a couple of games of bowling and then headed off to Llandudno and went for a drive along the mountain pass toll road (which only Nick and Kim got charged for

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Sunday night we got a real taste of the Welsh weather with more than one tent less-than water tight, but mine definitely the worst - thank goodness the wheel-barrow of wood was in my "10-second" fishing bivvy, otherwise it would have blown away! The weather may have been bad outside, but we sipped cocktails and played Top Gear Top Trumps and drank Turbo Cider which caused people to fell alseep (mid-sentence). Thanks to Nick and Kim, I had a dry night in their tent instead of my "swimming pool" bivvy.
Monday, the rain had gone (as prediced by Iain) and we were treated to sunshine on the last day, going our seperate ways after a couple of hours in Llandudno and bargain-priced pizza hut.
My 850 mile trip ended with a lovely sun-set and clear roads along the A17/A47, with the icing on the cake watching the Sutton Bridge at Kings Lynn turning to let a Norfolk Wherry Boat through. I arrive home at 8.45pm, totally shattered, with a huge smile on my face after an incredible weekend.
Thanks to everyone for a great time, definitely an annual trip as far as I'm concerned. With so many things that we simply didn't have time to see/do this time round, I'm looking forward to doing some of them next year!