The kids will love Benllech, one of Anglesey’s most popular beaches with bathing and paddling. Low-tide sands reveal plenty of space for beach games and building sandcastles. It has all the assets of a fully fledged beach, compete with a promenade and rockpools. Children (and most adults) can’t resist peering into them in search of miniature marine life.

If that isn’t enough, Benllech’s next-door neighbour is the vast stretch of sand at Traeth Coch, Red Wharf Bay. You’re spoilt for choice, really.

Follow the A5025/B5109 south to Beaumaris.

Then become king of the castle at Beaumaris, a World Heritage Site that’s amongst the most perfectly designed medieval monuments in Europe. The kids will love exploring the battlements, wall walks and dungeons.

It’s a history lesson in stone that leaves a deep impression. Ring after ring of stone walls protect the castle’s inner core, and the outer walls alone are guarded by 300 arrow loops (not forgetting a moat that circled the entire fortress). Even so, this masterpiece of military architecture was never fully finished and remains ‘gloriously incomplete, the greatest castle never built’.

Keep an eye open for special family-friendly events held at Beaumaris Castle and attractions throughout the island, ranging from medieval re-enactments to conservation projects, fairs to festivals.

Beaumaris is brimming in history. In addition to its fabulous fortress there’s Beaumaris Courthouse and Gaol, a sobering glimpse into crime and punishment, Victorian-style.

Prisoners were often sentenced to over 400 years behind bars. They might also have ended up on the treadmill, now one of the last of its kind on Britain, where they’d walk for hours pumping water around the building.

Take an atmospheric tour and you’ll agree that there’s something compellingly ghoulish about this place. You’ll also discover the strange story of the clock that doesn’t keep time. According to local tradition, the clock on the church tower near the gaol has been unreliable ever since it was cursed by a prisoner who was executed for the crime of murder despite protesting his innocence.

Little wonder that Beaumaris Gaol is reckoned to be one of Anglesey’s most haunted places.