After Penycloddiau GW/NW-054 on Friday 16th March 2018, my SatNav was not as helpful as earlier, and I needed to “follow my nose” a bit and try to remember where the parking spot was.  I compared notes on this with Ian GW8OGI/A with whom I was in contact while /M.

Knowing that Ian, and Eleri would be able to work me easily, I decided to “risk it” and just walk to the summit with handheld only.  This was possibly a little foolhardy, as GW/NW-076 is a heavily wooded summit.  However, it was no problem, and five QSOs were made easily.

Eleri’s callsign threw me at the start of our QSO. I was anticipating MW3NYR - but she announced 2W0NYR.  Therefore congratulations were in order for the Intermediate. 

Back at the car, I was still ahead of schedule, so I took a half hour break before continuing onto Rhyl.  I was pleased to find that the Pavilion Theatre was on the seafront with easy parking and excellent load-in facilities.  The venue was purpose-built in the 1990s, and had great sound and acoustics inside.

We ended up having a great show, which was very enjoyable to play with such great sound in this impressive modern theatre. (They also had good showers backstage in the dressing rooms too, which was very welcome after an afternoon in the muddy Clwydians - and a slip and fall into a mudbath on the descent of Penycloddiau!).