Raining steadily this morning and forecast for most of the day. So we cancelled the canal boat and rebooked for a half day Monday instead. Decided to drive to Merthyr Tydfil to go on a steam train ride on the Brecon Mountain Railroad.Was a short but very scenic trip and we then had our picnic lunch in the car because of the rain. Alan prepared the ploughmans plates in the back seat and we all ate well while the car fogged up like the old days at the drive in the...

Windy and raining this morning so stayed at the cottage waiting for Deirdre to arrive at around 12 Had a ploughmans type lunch at home then headed off to drive through Abergavenny to Monmouth and along the Wye valley to Tintern Abbey The drive was very scenic following Wye rive with mountains either side covered in a dense variety of lush green trees - lots of photo stops Tintern Abbey is a 12th century ruin which has large tall parts still standing - very int...

Drove to Abergavenny this morning and caught the train to Cardiff (about 45 minutes trip) arriving around 10.30am Our friends picked us up the station and took us a driving tour of Cardiff city and the redeveloped docks area. We had assumed Cardiff would be a dull, grey, old looking place but how wrong we were. It is spacious, clean and historical with lots of green spaces and very well redeveloped dock area around the old shipyards. They then drove us to an ol...

Had planned to do some countryside walks today but steady rain in the morning so not sure what to do. A very timely visit by the owner to collect her money led to some suggestions re places to drive to. So we ended up doing a round trip to Abergavenny then on single lane back roads through lush green woods to a monastery ruin which was amazing. Then up over a mountain plateau where the misty cloud created a unique drive, then down into Hay on Wye an old town wit...

Few household chores like the washing this morning then out about 11am driving to Brecon an old market town in the Brecon Beacons National Park (about 15 miles) Well how many times can you pull over for photos in 15 miles because we might have set the record - stunning natural beauty of rolling green paddocks dotted with mainly slate grey or white houses for as far as the eye could see. Crops, grazing animals and some forests. In Brecon we took ourselves on a t...