It’s Wednesday and it is smack in the middle of the Crickhowell Walking Festival – a ten day long event of daily walks guided by locals around the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. This is the third year of the Festival and it gets bigger all the time with over 60 walks this year. It [...]
- 2nd March 2010
- What's Going On?
Singing for their Supper
One of the perks of running events at Gliffaes is that, although it is hard work to organise, it is fantastic to join in! I love music and Saturday night was our annual opera evening, a charity concert for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and George Thomas Hospice Care in Cardiff. This year the singers were Penny [...]
- 1st March 2010
- Uncategorised
Fresh and Local
Fresh and local, that’s how we like our meat at Gliffaes. When we can we like to get a whole carcass and do the butchering ourselves. We can’t manage a cow but lamb, small pigs and roe or fallow deer we can. It means we hang the meat for the right amount of time and [...]
- 28th February 2010
- Gone Fishing
Riverside Clean Up
Getting Ready for the Fishing Season. Fly fishing season begins on March 3rd on the River Usk. Gliffaes Hotel has two and half miles of fishing on the Usk so before the season begins we have a day cleaning up the river bank, yesterday was the day. A lot of rubbish is brought down by [...]
