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Criccieth to Harlech

 It's a cool but sunny spring day and we're back on the Coast Path with Criccieth Castle behind us.  (She'd already done the stretch from Llanystumdwy without me).  There are spring lambs and daffodils. We set off on the promenade, then along the railway, over the hill and down to Black Rock Sands where there was a traffic sign!  We couldn't manage ten miles an hour but some of the cars were racing along the hard sand between the dunes and the sea.  Lunch was on a seat with a view of the estuary and I got some of her sandwich.  Then we headed inland with great views of the mountains of Eryri and Merioneth as well as the distant shoreline.   Then we met Ian on another well placed bench catching up on his correspondence.   The walk from there into Porthmadog was very picturesque.   We returned by train from Talsarnau the next morning and walked from the main railway station back to the Steam Railway and the continuation of the Co...