Portmeirion
From Llanfair................goch we turned back across the Menai Bridge and carried on round the coastal highway until we found the tourist attraction of Portmeirion.
This village was built in Italian style, vaguely inspired by Portofino, by Clough Williams-Ellis in the middle of the Twentieth Century. It formed the setting for the TV series "The Prisoner" starring Patrick McGoohan, and also for episodes of Danger Man, and Doctor Who.
We found a café, and sampled their eccles cakes for morning tea; we enjoyed them so much we have since baked eccles cakes ourselves several times at home.
The village runs down the slope of the hill to the estuary, as can be seen from this general shot.
At the bottom of the hill, right on the shore, is a hotel:
And here is a view of the main central open space of the village halfway down the hillside.
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