A wet June 2012 morning in Betws-y-Coed with Dileep's brother: the Gateway to Snowdonia welcome sign, the park boundary marker, and honest Welsh rain.
One wet morning in June 2012 we drove into north Wales with Dileep's brother and stopped at Betws-y-Coed, the village that styles itself the gateway to Snowdonia. The weather was doing its most Welsh work, and the greens were unreal because of it.
The village introduces itself in two languages and asks you to drive carefully in both. June 2012.Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri: the national park boundary marker, quietly being reclaimed by the hedge it stands in.Dileep's brother, entirely unbothered by the drizzle. Look closely and you can see the rain actually falling.
By the afternoon we had crossed back over the border to spend the rest of the day at Chester Zoo, same trip, same brother, same sky slowly deciding to behave.
