{"id":2545,"date":"2012-09-05T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:33:28","slug":"dog-walk-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/dog-walk-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog-walk extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The caravan was free a couple of weekends ago, so we took advantage and managed to grab a sunny few days in Snowdonia.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning was nice, but the planned run was aborted because I was feeling lazy. Instead we took an extended tour of Cwm Idwal, returning to the car via Cwm Bochlwyd.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2546\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2546\" title=\"Cwm Idwal, before the crowds arrive. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912f.jpg\" alt=\"Cwm Idwal, before the crowds arrive. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"750\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912f.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912f-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cwm Idwal, before the crowds arrive. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2547\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2547\" title=\"Sunshine over Tryfan, Y Gribin and Llyn Idwal. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912g.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine over Tryfan, Y Gribin and Llyn Idwal. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"750\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912g.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912g-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunshine over Tryfan, Y Gribin and Llyn Idwal. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After that we returned to the caravan for a leisurely afternoon, before heading out again to Llyn Dinas. Caesar had fun chasing up and down, and we eventually managed to wear him out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2548\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2548\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2548\" title=\"Playtime at Llyn Dinas. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912h.jpg\" alt=\"Playtime at Llyn Dinas. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912h.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912h-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playtime at Llyn Dinas. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2549\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2549\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2549\" title=\"Sleepy mutt. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912i.jpg\" alt=\"Sleepy mutt. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"465\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912i.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912i-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sleepy mutt. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunday morning was grey and drizzly, but we set off for a run over Cwm Bychan anyway. I felt tired all the way around, and the thought of running up anywhere afterwards held no appeal. Clearly this was more than plain old laziness, so with a suspected diagnosis of over-training and under-eating, we spent a pleasant afternoon wandering around Betws and then tiring the dog out some more on Harlech beach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2550\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2550\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2550\" title=\"Harlech beach, in the blazing sunshine away from the hills. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912j.jpg\" alt=\"Harlech beach, in the blazing sunshine away from the hills. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912j.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912j-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harlech beach, in the blazing sunshine away from the hills. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday found us in the familiar position of having to go home when we&#8217;d much rather stay in the glorious sunshine. We finished the trip with a circuit of Llyn Geirionedd, before grudgingly returning to Leicestershire!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2551\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2551\" title=\"Circumnavigating Llyn Geirionedd. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912k.jpg\" alt=\"Circumnavigating Llyn Geirionedd. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912k.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120912k-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Circumnavigating Llyn Geirionedd. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The caravan was free a couple of weekends ago, so&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}