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Day Three: Nant Bychan to Cemaes Bay  (17 miles) After packing most of the gear, I checked on the weather forecast and it was giving a ten percent chance of light showers. The skies were grey but it was not raining when I set off at mid morning. I dropped down the hill into Moelfre and tucked into an excellent cooked breakfast at Ann's Pantry. I'm not sure why I didn't ride straight through Moelfre, possibly I didn't check the map carefully enough but, after my early cafe stop, I went back up the hill to the road junction and turned onto the small lane that runs past the Lligwy Burial Chamber.  I did not have time to visit that ancient site and just continued on along the rolling  lanes until I eventually returned back on the main A5025 road towards Llaneuddog. By this time the rain had set in and there were dark foreboding clouds swarming in my direction from the northwest. I took a right turn down  the coastal lane towards Llys Dulas and as I approached a wooded secti

Day2: Day tour of the northern interior of  Anglesey (38 miles) The view across Red Wharf Bay from Nant Bychan. T he sun was out next morning so I took a stroll down on the beach to take in the views across Red Wharf Bay and to admire some of the rock balancing art that was on display there. It gave me some thinking time and I decided to stay another night at Nant Bychan and to do a day ride inland and head towards Llyn Allaw and the northern part of the island. Nant Bychan's rocky shore line. There is a sandy bay a bit further down the coast along the footpath that runs through the farm. Mid-morning I set off, free of most of the camping gear. It was  a great feeling to be riding the bike unloaded, even though it was early in the tour. Later I realized that I had left the fuel bottle on the bike, which irked me a bit.  After continuing on the main road for a short stretch I quickly peeled off onto the narrow, windy, rollercoaster  lanes heading west in the general direction of Pen