Although we have been coming to Anglesey for years, we scarcely know the Llŷn Peninsula, apart from Criccieth at its eastern end.  It has always felt remote – a distant set of hills far into the Irish Sea.

Today, we explored the pilgrimage route on its northern shore, starting with St. Beuno in Clynnog Fawr, an unexpectedly spacious church because of the crush of fifteenth-century pilgrims:-

We tried to visit St. Curch in Carnguwch, but couldn’t figure out how to get to it across fields.  After lunch in Morfa Nefyn, we ended up in St. Beuno, Pistyll, in a beautiful setting on the side of a hill and with straw on the floor, giving it a monastic feel:-