HIGHS & LOWS

Marcus Leach and family find mountains and caves are equally appealing on a holiday in North Wales

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One particularly vivid memory from my childhood is a framed postcard that hung on the wall by my grandparents’ front door. It depicted a rugged and rocky mountain reaching high into a cloudless sky, with a great sweep of rolling green hills below - the kind of image you’d imagine a train company using to advertise travel destinations back in the sixties.

On the postcard, there was a short quote: “There’s no better way to see the world than from the top of a mountain.”

Those words stuck with me as I grew up, and they still do to this day; which might go some way to explaining why, whenever we have the chance to head away, I am drawn to corners of the world where the topography rises and great peaks are the defining features of the landscape.

I am blessed to have a family for whom the same is true, which is just as well, as not only is the view of the world better from the top of a mountain, it’s one best shared with those you love.

Scenery and adventure

Although the options for visiting mountainous locations aren’t as numerous in the UK as they are in Europe, those we have still offer beautiful scenery and the scope for plenty of adventure.

And nowhere is that truer, in our opinion at least, than in North Wales. Despite having spent a great deal of time exploring there over the years, we are continually drawn back, and now, with our two children, Harrison and Dorothy, able to share in the experience as well, it makes a perfect destination for a week-long trip.