{"product_id":"two-shores-llandudno","title":"Two Shores: Local Secrets, Honest Stories \u0026 the Real Llandudno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerrible about the Christmas Extravaganza, isn't it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's how every conversation in Llandudno started this morning, and it's how this book starts, because it tells you something true about the town the brochures never will. It lives on its calendar. It's a Victorian resort trying, all year round, in a wind. And it's still magic anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTim came from Stockport in 2022 after thirty years of day trips and a house price in Heaton Moor that made him laugh out loud. He's still the incomer. But being new means you notice things, and he's spent four years asking the people who were born here, mostly Glenys two doors down, where they actually go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rootsand-routes.com\/cart\/58071709647230:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1f3a4d;color:#fff;padding:16px 34px;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-size:18px\"\u003eGet Two Shores\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who's done the pier and the tram and wondered what else there is. People who come every year and want the bits they've walked past. And anyone who's stood on the prom in September and thought \"we could live here.\" The honest chapters are for you. Read them twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/two-shores-llandudno-whats-inside.jpg\" alt=\"What's inside Two Shores\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Two Shores rule, properly.\u003c\/strong\u003e Which beach is sheltered today, and how to tell from the gulls. Once you've got it you'll never have a bad day here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Orme done right.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tram (sit left going up), the copper mines before eleven, the Marine Drive anti-clockwise, St Tudno's, and the goats: where they actually are and why they never really went back up after 2020.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChip rules instead of a chip name.\u003c\/strong\u003e Because Tim named one in the King's Head once and got shouted at by four people, two of them related to the owners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConwy in ten minutes, not a day.\u003c\/strong\u003e When to go so you miss the coaches. Plus Bodnant, the Little Orme seals, the new direct Liverpool train, and Llandudno FC in the top flight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest chapters.\u003c\/strong\u003e Money, the wind, the damp, the bank closing, an older town, the season rhythm. What it's actually like to live in a seaside resort in February.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinter, when it's ours.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Llandudno nobody sells you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe spot.\u003c\/strong\u003e A flat limestone slab on the west side of the Orme that Glenys's dad showed her. Exact directions. She said not to put it in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/two-shores-llandudno-spread.jpg\" alt=\"A real two-page spread from inside\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e37 chapters and appendices. 57 pages. PDF, instant download, opens on any phone, tablet or laptop. Written by someone who lives there, checked in September 2026, and you get free updates for life: when it's revised, the new file comes to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it isn't\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not a listings guide. There are no opening hours tables and no star ratings. It's one person's honest account of a town, with the useful bits made useful and the people made real. If you want a directory, the tourist board does one for free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/two-shores-llandudno-free-updates.jpg\" alt=\"Free updates for life\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf it's not what you hoped, reply to your order email within 14 days and you'll get your money back. 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