Buying a ticket for the cliff railway took a while, not because their systems are slow, but because a group of indeterminate size took forever to buy tickets. They were clearly from somewhere in Europe, but their English skills were good enough to engage in commerce from what I could tell; What took the time was:
- They couldn’t all be in the one spot, so people were always wandering off
- Nobody seemed to know how many tickets they needed
- Everyone had to be involved in the purchase, and had opinions and comments
- Remember how they kept wandering off? Yeah, that didn’t help with the previous step
- Multiple loud conversations and cross-conversations were happening while all of the above was going on
- This was all happening at the head of the queue, right in front of the ticket booth, so while they were unable to buy a ticket, neither could anyone else
I wandered away from the building & back again a few times, over maybe a five minute period, until I could see that they weren’t there. Or anywhere nearby.
ANYWAY, I eventually rode the little funicular train up the hill, and … The views are pretty good. There’s a walking path up, so you don’t have to take the railway, and one that heads out along the coast; Saw a few people heading out in that direction with a distinct “going on a hike” manner.
There’s a little cafe at the top of course, so I took the opportunity to have the Welshest possible Welsh cakes.
Also headed out along the waterfront to the other end of Aberystwyth.
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