Tuesday 21st October 2025
We’re heading to Conway today to meet up with our good friends Dave and Leisha, but not until midday, so no immediate rush. Apart from a wake-up call around 0700hrs from Tom-Tom, a good night was had by all giving us an opportunity for a lie in.
The dogs became restless soon after 0800hrs so Christine knew it was “walkie” time, after which we breakfasted. We had arranged to meet at the “Erskine Arms” in Conway at 12 o’clock, a dog friendly hostelry within the old town, but knowing it would be a “Protracted” affair, we needed to exercise the dogs just before we sat down!!! We decided a beach walk would do the job, so stopped at the “Conway Morfa Beach” just before we arrived in Conway. We were quite surprised at the number of cars in the car park on this windy, cloudy morning, most walking their dogs as well! There are sand dunes between the car park and the beach, the tide was in and by the time we’d got over the dunes to the beach, the dogs were already in the water; oh well they’re happy, rather them than us!
After chasing about in and out of the sea, we threw a ball in the car park to “try” and shake some of the water and sand off them before heading to the Erskine.
The Erskine Arms is a 19th Century Georgian coaching inn inside the town walls believed to be built between 1830/40’s and as expected, minimal car parking. Fortunately there was a large car park by the nearby station and as a bonus, free; well free today as they were replacing the pay machine!!!!!
As we had the dogs we couldn’t enter the restaurant but stayed in the bar, this was no issue, we were very happy, we had a good sized table in the corner, the service was very good and the food was excellent. The only Criticism was their rule:- “you have to pay as you order, no tabs in this bar”; unbelievable!!
Our extended lunch eventually came to an end and we said our good-byes before heading back to our respective homes; fortunately Christine had volunteered to drive back before we sat down to lunch.
Back in our holiday-home, we relaxed and other than taking the dogs out for a walk had a “TV night”; we certainly didn’t need to eat anything!!!!