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**Blackthorn** · 07-12-2015, 08:32

Britain's best pub walks - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...nery-pint.html

**aleandhearty** · 07-12-2015, 10:53

An article originally broadcast on Radio 4's You and Yours 27th November 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039sh1b

**Aqualung** · 07-12-2015, 14:52

Originally Posted by Blackthorn

Britain's best pub walks - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...nery-pint.html

I would have included this one. Like the Clachaig Inn it's a climber's & walker's pub at the lower end of the Llanberis Pass. Also like the Clachaig when it eventually stops raining the views are superb. The picture I submitted to the site is over 35 years old, the two pine trees are no longer there. This was after one of them snapped like a matchstick in an overnight gale and crashed through the roof of the pub. Nobody was hurt, more by luck than anything. Soon after they cut the other tree down.

**ETA** · 07-12-2015, 15:30

Originally Posted by Aqualung

I would have included this one. Like the Clachaig Inn it's a climber's & walker's pub at the lower end of the Llanberis Pass. Also like the Clachaig when it eventually stops raining the views are superb. The picture I submitted to the site is over 35 years old, the two pine trees are no longer there. This was after one of them snapped like a matchstick in an overnight gale and crashed through the roof of the pub. Nobody was hurt, more by luck than anything. Soon after they cut the other tree down.

It also has a carpark and campsite attached (or did last time I went there) and is a really good place to land when you arrive by motorcycle in the early hours after an emotional ride along the A5 (in pre-M54 days anyway) having left the South coast on a whim without checking the weather. Not sure if they still do the cooked breakfast and late-night lock-ins, but you're well set up for a day's walking in the hills regardless. I would have been using this place regularly around the time Aqualung's pic was taken.

**Aqualung** · 07-12-2015, 17:35

Originally Posted by ETA

It also has a carpark and campsite attached (or did last time I went there) and is a really good place to land when you arrive by motorcycle in the early hours after an emotional ride along the A5 (in pre-M54 days anyway) having left the South coast on a whim without checking the weather. Not sure if they still do the cooked breakfast and late-night lock-ins, but you're well set up for a day's walking in the hills regardless. I would have been using this place regularly around the time Aqualung's pic was taken.

I thought the campsite was at the farm across the road rather than the pub. I suspect the breakfasts went when Pete's Eats in Llanberis opened. I don't remember many lock ins apart from when the Landlord was in the mood and a few of the locals agreed to sing the songs that you still hear at the Rugby (Sosban Bach, Land of My Fathers etc).