| | North Wales is the part of the country to head for a good family holiday. |
The area has sandy beaches at popular tourist spots like Colwyn Bay, Rhyl and Prestatyn. The young and young at heart will find plenty to do in these busy seaside towns - the ideal place for even a day out at the coast as North Wales is easily accessible from the English town of Chester. |
| But there's also many a market town to explore and countless mediaeval castles which dwarf the surrounding towns. |
| These fairytale fortresses were home to Wales' Princes and Princesses but probably the best known one these days is Caernarfon, where Prince Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in 1969. |
| Also well worth seeking out is little known Ceiriog Valley, close to the border with England - famously described by one of the best known Welshmen, David Lloyd George, as "a little bit of heaven on earth." |
| He wasn't the only one who loved this area. Poets movingly wrote about the beauty of this valley, among them John 'Ceirog' Hughes, Wales' equivalent of Robert Burns. |
| It's also home of the Pistyll Rhaedar waterfall at 240 feet it's the highest anywhere in England or Wales. |
| Off the coast is the Isle of Anglesey, a stunning sanctuary for wildlife and classed as an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
To get there from Bangor visitors cross a well known place - the station with the longest name in the world. Take a deep breath and try saying
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwillllanddysiliogogogoch! |
| And for something really different why not visit Portmerion, an Italian style town where not everything is as it seems. Built from 1925 until 1975 on by architect Clough William-Ellis, television fans will instantly recognise it as the setting for cult 1960s series The Prisoner. |
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