Three Night  Summer Break in the Brecon Beacons Got a few days holiday owing to you? Fancy a trip to part of the country you might have never been to before? Like to do some walking or cycling in the Brecon Beacons? Do you enjoy good food, wine and a comfortable hotel? Of course you [...]

Trees and Woodland at Gliffaes Of  the 33 acres of ground at Gliffaes a good deal of it is planted over with trees. A lot of this is on steep sloping ground where we are starting to thin out the hazel and sycamore which has been badly damaged by squirrels over the years. This will let the [...]

Birthday, Anniversary, Family gathering? Last weekend we helped Gliffaes fan Donald Lamb throw a fantastic 40th Birthday weekend  at Gliffaes. There was very little Donald had to do; Choose the date. Send out the invitations. Pay the bill. We took care of everything else, Donald even let me choose the wine for the celebration dinner [...]

Fishing Opens on the Usk The fishing season started yesterday (3rd March – 30th September for trout and 17th October for salmon) and the Usk looked pretty good at Gliffaes, all be it, with pretty low flows, at about a foot above summer levels. We have had rain overnight so I expect the water to [...]