In to Wales

After a little shopping trip/coffee break, we headed to Doward, a stone’s throw from Wales, to visit King Arthur’s cave. Set in the woodland, a medium sized, circular cave to walk around inside on the hope to see traces of horseshoe bats but no luck though we did stumble across an enormous European cave spider just hanging about. Pleased I had my phone torch on (Leo shudder). Gary said he spotted some hibernating moths.
We had a little amble around the woodland marvelling at the many ivy structures invading the trees plus a stone spiral maze someone had constructed.
We wondered downhill and realised it headed to the river which is also the Welsh border. Couldn’t cross it though.

Back to the van and on in to Wales where the heavens opened. We stopped at Clydach ironworks, a world heritage site. The ironworks now a ruin but a nice little walk. We tried to find the gorge but the signs/map weren’t much help so headed on to our next stop in the Brecon Beacons or Bannau Brycheiniog National Park as it was reverted back to a couple of years ago. A winding, weaving drive to find a waterfall that we also couldn’t find! This would’ve been our stopover so we headed back out of Bannau south and stopped in a train station car park in a little town called Baglan near Port Talbot. Not much to report here but spotted a Beefeater over the road which may well be our brekkie stop in the morning.

Made our dinner in the van and did Jay’s pub quiz online. We used to do this every Thursday during lockdown and he’s still going 5 years on! Bless him.
Very quiet in the car park give or take the odd pick up/drop off or police car tea break.
Raining on and off which will be the theme throughout the trip. We’ve been lucky dodging the showers so far, when the sun’s out it’s beautiful.Read more