The Brecon Beacons National Park is just perfect biking country; quite lanes and canal tow paths mixed in with some amazing off road routes all over the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons, something for everyone. But, maybe you don’t have a bike or you don’t have space in your car for two or more  [...]

In the interests of researching all good days out, I decided to take Alexandra, Olivia, my Mum and some of our French family canoeing on the Wye yesterday. I wonder why we have not done this before? What a fabulous way to spend the afternoon. I think I may do it more often. Having not [...]

We have been going to the north Pembrokshire coast for about ten years now. Every time I make our annual trip I am blown away by the rugged beauty and by how few tourists there are on this wonderful stretch of coast underneath the Presseli Hills. We base ourselves in the small town of Newport [...]

A trip to Aberglasney makes for a great day out from Gliffaes, the journey along the A40 westwards is very straight forward and takes an hour. We often call in here on the way back from Pembrokshire to have a look around and to have lunch in the very good cafe over looking the big [...]