Tuscan Wine Tasting and Dinner – Saturday 16th February 2013 – NO MORE PLACES Four course dinner  and a different Tuscan wine with each course. Following on from previous successful wine evenings we are repeating the formula but moving the wine focus to another part of the wine producing world. This time  it is Tuscany [...]

More Specimen tress at Gliffaes With the planting of a further 17 specimen trees yesterday it rounded off nicely a year in which Susie and I started to really make more of the spectacular trees we have at Gliffaes. Starting three or four centuries ago past inhabitants of Gliffaes have taken a long term view [...]

New Fishing Courses for 2013 For over ten years we have been running fly-fishing courses at Gliffaes Hotel. For 2013 we have added more courses for anglers who want to improve their skills.  If you are a beginner learning to fish at Gliffaes, the Usk will spoil you; this section of the Usk is one [...]

As I went to let my ducks out a couple of mornings ago I saw the first snow on the Brecon Beacons. It seems very early to see a sprinkling of icing on my favourite hills, but it was a beautiful crisp Autumn morning and the trees looked magnificent lit by the November sun against [...]