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A Trip to Wales

September 14, 2014 By All That I'm Eating 6 Comments

I hadn’t been to Wales before this week except when I was at school. I remember it being quite pretty and that I went gorge walking but that was about as much as I could remember. So off I went on Monday to a stay in a place near Builth Wells in Powys. I learnt a few things about Wales in the week I was there; namely that no matter which way you turn it always looks stunning. There’s only so many pictures you can take and upload! Every single person I met was so nice and so friendly it was quite a shock to the system to actually have people say ‘good morning’ to you. I managed to cram plenty in over the week as you’ll see.

View near the Elan valley

I was staying with my parents, brother and the other half making a merry party of five of us. We spent the first day exploring the area and playing every sport ever invented. I’m not one of those sporty types so it was a day of being last, demonstrating my lack of hand-eye coordination and actually quite enjoying myself. We managed: a four mile walk (to the below stream), tennis, mini-golf, a hill climb, darts, table tennis, pool, dominoes (yes I’m counting that), and a bit of swimming and cycling later in the week.

Welsh river

The second day saw us off on a trip to Hay-on-Wye where we found a brilliant Spanish tapas restaurant, more about that in an upcoming post. While out and about I had to take a picture of the sign below, I mean, what more do you want in one place?!

Days three and four were taken up with hiking across the Welsh wilderness over to the Elan valley, camping for the night and hiking back again. It’s something I’m glad I did but I’ll have more detail and some top tips for any hiking wannabes in my Welsh hiking post.

A trip to Wales - take a bike around Elan valley

While in the Elan Valley we spied the below trike which we knew we had to have a go on at some point! On the fifth day we went to Aberystwyth for a nose around, saw Devil’s Bridge then went back to the Elan Valley to hire the trike. The trike was power assisted and you sit side by side; it was so much fun. We went all along one side of the reservoir before having to turn around and return the trike, had we had all day I’m sure we could have triked to see all six of the dams.

Welsh pub sign

All in all Wales was brilliant. We had amazing weather and on some of the days with the rolling hills and blue skies you could have been anywhere. Stay tuned for a few more posts about what I got up to but I can tell you now that I’ll definitely be back.

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Comments

  1. Aunty Lynne says

    September 14, 2014 at 19:30

    Lovely to hear about all your adventures. Can’t wait for the next installment.

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  2. Mark Willis says

    September 14, 2014 at 19:52

    I’m sure there are some lovely parts of Wales, but I don’t think I have seen any of them! In my experience (when I was in the Army) it was always grey and wet, and I had to carry something very heavy… In retrospect, the wide open spaces are probably its greatest assets.

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  3. mimi says

    September 15, 2014 at 12:45

    We went to WAles in July. We stayed in Snowdonia. It was gorgeous and the people were delightful. Enjoyed your photos!

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  4. Joanne says

    September 16, 2014 at 12:13

    Well I’ve never been to wales, but it was fun traveling along with you!

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  5. Emma @ Adventures of a London Kiwi says

    September 16, 2014 at 22:03

    Wales is an undiscovered jewel – if you get good weather – isn’t it! Sounds like you had a great time!

    Reply
  6. Choc Chip Uru says

    September 17, 2014 at 07:21

    I am trying to get exchange organised in Wales, this is so exciting 😀

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

    Reply

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