{"id":23188,"date":"2016-10-30T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23188"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:34:45","slug":"machynlleth-lantern-parade-fireworks-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/machynlleth-lantern-parade-fireworks-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Machynlleth Lantern Parade and Fireworks 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday was a rare day with all of us at home with nothing really on the agenda. Morgan and I started it with an early morning walk\u00a0in the dark. We went over to the beach, along the pebbles, through the dunes, up to the viewpoint, down to the visitor centre and then back home. I then jumped on the turbo trainer for 90 minutes for a bit of exercise. Next up it was time to clean and service my bikes and then do some gardening. The courgette plants were still just about producing but now they are composting and the raised bed<\/a> has been replenished with new compost. It was then some chores around the house before we headed off for the annual Machynlleth\u00a0Lantern Parade and Fireworks.<\/p>\n

Haunted Hides Souvenir<\/h2>\n
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Haunted Hides Souvenir<\/p><\/div>\n

We weren’t taking part this year. We thought we’d have a year off and watch it ourselves and maybe enter a lantern into the Aberystwyth procession instead at Christmas. We got to Machynlleth early as we also wanted to find a geocache. There was a new geocaching souvenir up for grabs called ‘Haunted Hides’. To gain it we had to find a geocache between October 29th and 31st. We parked at Tuffins, wandered to the nearby cache, found it straight away and then had some time to kill. We did get the souvenir as well of course.<\/p>\n

We then parked in Machynlleth and wandered through the town. We popped into Losin Lush to get tickets for the fireworks and a bag of sweets each. Whilst wasting time we battled a couple of Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon gyms and waited for the procession to begin.<\/p>\n\n\t\t