Hi Friends and Family, Today we're leaving the Brecons. We have had a brilliant time and it is one of the places that you MUST go to if you're in Wales and you're an outdoory type of person. Yesterday, we undertook our own trek but today we decided to let the professionals do their thing! We had picked up a leaflet produced by the Brecon Beacon National Park Authorities in which we saw guided walking tours and because we still had a few hours to kill before driving to the Western coast of Wales, we decided to ring up for reserved places and turn up! The tour was to take place in Llanddeusant. Llanddeusant is a community in the Black Mountain region of the Brecons, in Carmarthenshire, Wales and about 5 miles southeast of Llangadog. Llanddeusant ... read more

Hi Friends and Family! Wake up! Its time to move out and won’t I be glad. The Starbunk House was well located, cheap and great for groups but was one of the most deserted places that I have ever been to except for the weirdo couple that owned a large castle in the Black Forest of Germany in which my ex-husband, my new-born baby and myself were the only guests! We were out of there pronto! So this morning we packed up loosely and had our breakfast of toast, cereal and jam across the road the “The New Inn / Beacon Backpackers” and then proceeded to “move-in”!! After handing the barman (Andy) the key of the Bunkhouse, we drove to “The Big Pit”. “The Big Pit” is one of the last of the coal pits to ... read more

Hi Friends and Family! Today, we left Cardiff in order to get to our next destination: The Brecons! As many of you know, I am a very great lover of using local transport however, in coming to Wales, I chose to go to small obscure places in the middle of no-where and thereby reducing the possibilities of actually getting there! Especially on the weekends. In one hostel in the West of Wales, the owners told me that the only way to get there from the Brecons is to either take the ferry going to Ireland or go all the way back to England and take a train in the opposite direction! So since (with an 8 year old boy and only three weeks to work with) we decided to.....gulp! Hire a car! I booked on-line with ... read more

Hi Friends and Family, St. FAGANS & CARDIFF ON A STROLL! We're definitely in Cardiff now as it began to rain slightly but being the United Kingdom, not for long LOL! Today, we went to St Fagans or in Welsh “Sain Ffagan”. St. Fagans: National History Museum is an enormously large open-air museum. Set in the grounds of St. Fagans Castle, the Museum is home to over 30 buildings. These include a Victorian school, a row of iron workers’ cottages, workshops, mills and a magnificent medieval church. There is also a very large range of gardens spanning from the formal gardens of the castle itself to the cottage gardens that provided food for working families and servants. And happily, it was brilliantly free. After spending a few hours here on this most rainy of days we ... read more

Hi Friends and Family! Today is the day. Yeah! HOLI - DAY! Yep. Three weeks of laziness, relaxation and nothing to do! Yeah right!! OK folks truth is, it’s the first day of a three week hike around Wales and the NW County of Chester and Cheshire starting with leaving the house at roughly 19:30 and waving goodbye to our cat. We’re cat owners again now, didn’t you know! We took the airport train to Schönefeld Airport which is the train in the suburbs of Berlin-Brandenburg. We were due to take the 21:55 flight to Bristol and arrived at the airport at 20:30. Plenty of time to check-in and buy a few things for the flight we thought. It’s always a pleasure to fly from Berlin ‘cos the airports are so small (not for long though ... read more