Lost Completely

People get lost in Wales, but what makes things harder is there is too many place names with the same name, but this one was a real laugh.

On the Llandrillo side of the Wayfarer at one of the starts, there is a small corpse just where the UCR ends and the track begins. Leading a convoy in mid week during the summer of 2005, we came across a very smart man sitting in a brand new ordinary modern car fiddling with his Sat-Nav. We stopped and asked him if he was planning to do the Wayfarer in such a vehicle. No he replied, he was completely lost, he was looking for Llandrillo College.

We couldn’t stop laughing Llandrillo College is 30 odd miles away on the coast near Colwyn Bay. He explained that he was a Sales rep, had got an appointment late in the previous evening and just typed in Llandrillo. Upon entering the village asked for directions, someone with a funny sense of humour said “know a short cut mate, just go out of the village the way you came, turn right at the phone box, up the hill to the top, along the track to the left, back entrance over the ridge”.

He was non to happy, we helped him re program the Sat Nav to Rhos-on-Sea and sent him on his way. One of our local laners says they get a few every year asking were the College is, it’s a local joke so if they are that lost they send them off in all directions.