I was sitting in the local pub about riding up the steepest road in the world two years after my first effort and being 14 seconds slower due to being two years older and the poor quality of the road, but I forgot to press the publish button! Here I am, outside my tent getting ready for my last night in Dinas, and my last camp in this country for a while. Fires are burning, and I’m hoping that my lemon scented candles are keeping the little biting flies away. It’s 2250 and I’d be ready for bed if I didn’t have some Purple Moose beers to drink. Life is hard.I haven’t been pushing the job hunting as much asd I could have, but that could be down to looking where I can get a signal. One interview is happening next Wednesday and I think that gave me the freedome to go out for a long ride and enjoy the views. Google maps helped again and was giving me directions from my pocket. Route 8 seems to be the best cycling route around here. If I’d paid more attention, I would have come back that way instead of the A roads. I don’t think I wanted more hills. Going slowly plays on your mind after a while and sometimes I want to ride quickly. Route 8Bloody EU taking away our freedoms by allowing us to live and work in the EU!

The next time I camp in Snowdonia, I’m coming here near Llaberis. I collected a leaflet.

Best view of the day at the end of the ride between Harlech and Llanbedr.

This can wait for tomorrow……no it can’t. I’ve broken my rules and brought beer inside the sleeping area. I think I’ve worked out how to use my solar charger. What you do is leave it out in the sun to charge its own battery and that will charge my phone. Smaller things seem to charge directly from solar, but not something like a phone. This means I don’t need a new one. If I still had the manual, it may have said this!I have to say that having some time away has been brilliant. With a bit of luck I’ll have this and a job to come back to. I need my couple of weeks abroad to visit Austria with the tent. If I don’t that’s fine – kind of. But the job is the important thing. Somehow, I’ve managed to get a few things in order and buy the things I needed. The tech is handy, but fixing my body has been a big thing. I’m not there yet. I keep finding stretches I need to do, but I’m getting there. I even remembered to download some music from Tidal on to my Chromebook this eveing. My RHA earphones and Firefly Black are doing a great job. The widlife can sing another day.So, tomorrow I pack up, maybe ride to the end of the valley, definitely will have breakfast in the pub, and have a lazy drive north to bein the final leg of my trip – the unfamous Manchester-Blackpool-Manchester bike ride weekend!