Holidays 16.2 - A New Contender

A day of familiarity and at its end a new discovery right under our very noses.

the Whistler mural - a national treasure

Familiarity - the rhododendron garden at Plas Newydd. Rhododendron are an invader but now glowingly assimilated and at the far end of the Plas Newydd estate they make a pretty picture - as can be seen from the OG + Groupie papsnap hereto attached. As for Plas Newydd, well we didn't have time today to trot through the house (we are National Trust members natch, compulsory at our age and station in life) but everyone, and I mean everyone should do so because of the Whistler mural.

The new discovery: The Tavern on the Bay, a restaurant and bar at St David's Park, Red Wharf Bay. Now you would have thought that putting a gastro pub type operation on a holiday park would be a recipe for disaster. Well, I'm still not quite clear how they've got away with it but most assuredly they have. Yes there are families there but the service is so swift and charming that you are taken aback.  A light and clean room with panoramic views from Moelfre to the North and the great Orme to the South. Bosting. None of this would work without the food being good and the news is that it was more than good. OG had a steak which was terrific (and he's fussy on steak) and the Groupie loved the chicken in a parmesan sauce with onion rice. Nice chablis to wash it down. We'll be back. Within the week I suspect. Genuinely arresting experience - Tavern on the Bay