Monday 22nd January 2024

The day started dry and bright but windy, it had been windy overnight, but not sure if it was how the van was angled, or our location, but it wasn’t too bad, we were surprised, it was definitely windy, but we’ve experienced worse in the van before in Galloway in September 2022.

Yoghurt and granola for breakfast with a cuppa, good start to the day.

The showers on site are nice and modern, and they have a new “split” mechanism, which means they could close off half of each toilet/shower block, which seems to stop the usual “toilets are closed from 10:30am ’til 12pm” that is a feature of most sites.

It started to rain, and we weren’t sure what to do, it was a fairly short walk to the station, so we decided to head into Wrexham for the day on the train.

Caught the train, wandered around Wrexham in the blustery rain and wind, we fancied a walk to Erddig, but the rain came on pretty heavily, so we popped in for lunch.

A place called Reggies right in the centre of town, we had pies for lunch, Gayle had a homity pie, and I had a lamb pie with a sort of tagine flavour, both were very nice.

The place seems to have opened relatively recently, and I spotted an old (decorative) kitchen range in the back, I had another bread and butter pudding (with ginger sauce) for dessert, and Gayle had a chocolate torte, again, very nice.

I did spot the Wrexham brewery (where my sunday lager came from), but didn’t see a huge amount of Wrexham, it reminded me of a lot of small towns, shame we didn’t get to Erddig.

We picked up some food before heading back to Chirk, and relaxed in the van for the evening watching a bit of TV and relaxing.