{"id":24708,"date":"2017-07-11T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24708"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:51:29","slug":"aberaeron-seafood-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/07\/aberaeron-seafood-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberaeron Seafood Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

My parents were heading home on Sunday so rathe than do something here we thought we’d drive south with them for a bit so that they had started their journey home and then stop off somewhere for a wander and some lunch. We inadvertently ended up at the Aberaeron Seafood Festival.<\/p>\n

Aberaeron<\/h2>\n

We decided before we left to head to Aberaeron. We warned my parents that there wasn’t much to do there but as they;d never been there before it seemed like a good place to stop. It wasn’t too far from us, just a 50 minute drive. It wasn’t quite ont heir usual route home either but they could continue south from there, towards Carmarthen and then onto the motorway so it was less of a drive from Aberaeron than from our house even if the total drive for the day was slightly longer.<\/p>\n

Morgan and James\u00a0didn’t want to join us so we left them at home and headed off in convoy with Anna and I in our car and my Mum and Dad behind us in theirs. The drive was through thick mist at points and low cloud hung over Ceredigion. When we arrived in Aberaeron we headed to the usual car park but it was packed with not a single space available. We headed on to the seafront and the car parks there were the same. We did just manage to squeeze in eventually, but we were parked on the road and my parents were parked in an undesignated spot beyond the car park itself. It looked as though Aberaeron was busy!<\/p>\n

Aberaeron Seafood Festival<\/h2>\n

We decided to wander along the seafront towards the harbour. The weather was still overcast but dry and the thick bank of cloud could be seen out across the who of Cardigan Bay. As we approached the Harbour\u00a0though the slightly dreary mood created by the grey weather was lifted by the sound of folk music. As we got closer we could see a stage with a band playing on it.<\/p>\n

\"Stage\"<\/a>

Stage<\/p><\/div>\n

There was no indication of\u00a0what was going on though. We rounded the corner and were greeted with a row of yellow and white striped tentage covering a collection of market stalls and a huge number of people. There was a big crowd around the music stage but even more people thronging around the market stalls. We had stumbled upon the Aberaeron Seafood Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t