Abergavenny Food Festival Abergavenny is just ten miles from Gliffaes and is the epi-centre for all things gastronomic in South Wales and the annual food festival is being billed as, ‘ the Glastonbury of food festivals’. The festival kicks off next weekend,the 15th and 16th September , taking over the town centre for the weekend. At the [...]

Table Mounatin, The Darren and Cwm Cumbeth Last Wednesday was the first time for ages that all my weekly walking friends and I have managed to get together, so we felt blessed that it was one of the first of the glorious days we have had this month! We met at Crickhowell car park (just [...]

One would not necessarily associate lavender growing and Wales, but I visited the most wonderful local lavender farm today and it was a real treat. A pretty drive of about 50 minutes from Gliffaes, the farm is 1,100 feet at the top of the Maesmynis valley with stunning views across the beautiful Welsh countryside. (Take [...]

Seven miles around the Grwyne Fawr Valley Despite living here for over 14 years I had never been up close to the Grwyne Fawr reservoir, I had only ever seen it from a distance from the tops of the Black Mountains. I was spurred into action when my friend Danny appeared on a rainy Wednesday from [...]