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Sand Dunes and Water Pools and Steelworks – Kenfig
What a landscape Kenfig has. Without realising it you are walking over thousands of years of history. All of it is hidden away under deep mounds of sand. Archeological evidence shows that there has been human habitation here from at least the Bronze Age. But the most successful time was between the 12 and 14th…
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Llanthony Priory
After our visit to Hay on Wye last weeekend we decided to drive back along the mountain road and down into Cwm Ewyas. This a narrow glacial valley hidden away between two steep ridges, with the Afon Honddu running along the valley floor. It is right on the border between Wales and England which runs…
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Books, books and more books. Hay-on-Wye. Welsh 100: Number 40
Hay on WyeNestling under the northern flanks of the Black Mountains lies a fascinating small town full of book shops. Hay on Wye is the place to go in search of all things written. A Mecca for bibliophiles. When Aunty suggested we visit I could not refuse. I have some spaces on the bookshelves after…
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W is for Welsh Chwisgi. Welsh 100 – No 39
At the moment we are beginning to feel a little jaded with the weather as it is this winter. I am no longer a “Man from Wales” but feeling more like the “Man from Atlantis”! It’s bl****dy well raining still! What can we do on yet another wet weekend? Let’s go to a distillery, but…
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Miners for the Day – Big Pit. Welsh 100 – No 38
Christmas had finished and after our brief outing to Nash point we were eager to get another of the Welsh 100’s ticked off. But.. And it’s a big but, the rain kept on falling, so what could we do? Where could we go that would not be affected by the constant downpour? It had to…
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Nash Point
Taking a walk over the Christmas break was a challenge. Not because we were so busy, but because of the awful weather. It’s been raining here non stop for the past month, not as bad here as further north, but enough to create a “cabin fever” atmosphere at home. Then finally it stopped raining on…
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Keep away from the edge
Its been quite on the travels front, work and weather getting in the way. But after almost a month being tethered to the house because of the storms and rain we escaped today. The weather forecast for the coast was windy, cloudy but no rain. But the rain was lashing down against the windows this…
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Unfinished Business – Lyveden New Bield
Our second foray of the weekend into the English countryside took us to perhaps one of the most romantic ruins you could hope to come across. After traveling down a narrow single track road we turned off onto a non-metalled road that seem to take us across fields before finally revealing a three story, roofless…
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A belter of a house – Belton House
This past weekend we made a tour across the border into England to visit old friends in Northamptonshire. Following short debate the decisions made to make use of our National Trust Membership and visit Belton House. Just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire is a perfect looking house surrounded by a woodland park, which with the autumn colours…
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Glastonbury without the festival
We are staying just outside Bath for a few days, but the caravan has an extra resident. Number 1 daughter has muscled in on the act this time and sudden,y everything is so much more expensive than usual! We’ve never been to Glastonbury, well except for Number 1 whose been to the festival so I’m…
Travels With My Aunt
Random notes on the travels of a Welshman who has been allowed out to play after finishing his chores. OK so I don't travel with my Aunt, but I am usually under the adult supervision of my long suffering wife.
Travels With My Aunt 