This cosy country inn has added four spacious bedrooms and a smart restaurant, but kept its unpretentious village pub feel
From climbing to mountain-biking, north Wales is a hub for mud-spattered activity holidays. It has the mountains, the coastline and, increasingly, novel attractions such as Surf Snowdonia and Bounce Below. In this part of the world, exhaustion is a growth industry.
If breathlessness is your bag, Tim Watson is a good man to know. A fell runner, climber and wild swimmer, he loves slogging across north Wales and, annoyingly, looks much nearer 40 than 51. Thankfully, for relative slobs like me, the Kinmel Arms, the pub Tim runs with his wife, Lynn, is far more orientated to sweet lethargy than painful build-ups of lactic acid.
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