Wales Coast Path 2024

Today we were back to using the bus to get from where we parked to our walk start point. A warning for any others attempting the same leg: the bus from Tudweiliog at 9.53 doesn't run on Wednesdays! Only a last-minute check told us this, so we went a bit later and took the 11.30. Tudweiliog Post Office has a general store and serves takeaway coffee which we enjoyed. At Nefyn and Morfa Nefyn (but no further) the path was abundant with the invasive three-cornered leek.  Here we were taking care to make sure we took the right route, because we knew about recent landslips neccesitating diversions. We found good permanent new signage around Nefyn showing the route the Coast Path now takes, different to our map and book, but very clear on the ground.  Of course we had to take in the iconic Ty Coch Inn . Our walk timing meant this was very convenient for a pasty and a pint before resuming. There is another diversion here, around the clifftop instead of along the shore, not quite as w...

After a long break over the winter months, we resumed with our first Coast Path walk of 2026, picking up where we left off on a splendid sunny spring day. From Trefor to Morfa was a gentle enough walk that soon reminded us of the coast again. Here we were treated to a few splashes offshore and occasional display of fins - enough to say we had seen porpoises or dolphins, but not so much as to say which.  As we began our ascent of Yr Eifl, a local gentlemen asked us where we were headed,  and, hearing the answer, said we had started too late: he reckoned we needed to have started before 10 because of all that lay ahead. He had walked the whole Coast Path (as well as Offa's Dyke and the West Highland Way) and claimed that Trefor to Nefyn was the hardest stretch of all. This was not the encouragement we needed. From then on, the ascent to Bwlch yr Eifl was indeed tough going, an unremitting steep gradient. It's didn't help that this was our first long walk of the year (so stil...