Blogs from Powys, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 42

A morning out shooting clay pigeons with the Williams family shooters!... read more

Friday 27.11.2009 Day 44 Brecon Beacons National We went to a River and saw the cenarth falls and the salmon leap and a 17 century mill it was a very pretty place. We then we had lunch at the west end café which was a motorcycle hang out and there was a castle and sculpture of a knight in the car park. We then when to the Brecon Beacons National Park that has that lake in it that is said to the birth place of the wizard Merlin and Llyn y Fan the home of the Lady of the Lake. We could not get to the lake as it is only accusable by a 4 mile walk and it was sunset. We went home and had a home baked salmon dinner, maybe the salmon lived in ... read more

Sophie is home - for one day only - as its their Dad's 60th birthday this weekend. We popped down to Welshpool for a takeaway curry, which we took to Meifod. Delicious and far too much. Then we all settled down to a jolly game of railroader, a game from my childhood which we discovered in the loft when we put the new insulation in. I shan't explain the rules, just its in the wild west, and you lay a track and race trains along - avoiding various pitfalls if you're lucky. ... read more

Welspool is a small Welsh town located nearby English border in Powys county. Town is quite similar to the other Welsh towns, not so exciting but more interesting than small towns in England. At the beginning I went into small Powysland Museum located at the main street Severn Road. I saw there bilingual inscriptions as anywhere else in Wales, I heard Welsh as well while I was walking around town centre. Main reason why I travelled overthere was Powys Castle. It is piece of cake to get there from town - visitor will spot the arrows with directions how to get to castle that is main touristic attraction in Welshpool. All of visitors must walk thought nice park or just drive from the other direction. This castle was build by last prince of Powys - Owain ... read more

We walked along the disused railway line today, down the estuary to Barmouth, a glorious walk of 7 miles. We started at a toll bridge near Dolgellau, walked along the southern side of the river to the mouth, where there's a railway bridge (with footpath included) over the river into town. There we feasted ourselves on fish and chips on the prom, before catching a bus back along the other side of the river. Just had to walk across the toll bridge, and there we were. A lovely day. Dog didn't like it much, too many aeroplanes whizzing about, so her favourite part was jumping into the car at the end. Well .... she quite liked the bus!!!!... read more