Day 18 Llanddeusant to Myddfai

Thursday: Woke to light rain after a great night's sleep. Moved my kit into the hostel to keep it dry for packing. Tent fly sheet and inner are attached and rigged together. For the first time I separated them to keep the inner dry. Porridge for breakfast then I set off 10:30 with some concern that I only had 2 cereal bars for lunch.

My walk started with half a mile of 'green lane' running north east. Green lanes are typically 10 -12' wide, bordered with 2-3' high banks of stone and earth planted with trees and shrubs. I imagine they have been in place for hundreds of years. This one was certainly 'green' with grass, nettles and thistles 2-3' high soaked with the overnight rain so my trousers soon had wet legs. It was a pleasure to turn right / east to walk up onto a vast common area. From the map the common looked as though it would be bleak. The contrast could not have been greater as I walked over pleasant short grass for the next 4 miles. I reflected later this was probably the most pleasent section of the whole Cambrian Way. Part way across, the common is disected by minor road, which the guide book marks as a 2 mile waypoint. This had taken me 2 hours, at this rate I would arrive in Llandovery quite late at 8pm so I quickened my pace.

After descending from the common and walking a mile on a quiet road I arrived in the village of Myddfai where a visitor centre had been opened ... with a Café, so I did not have to go without lunch after all! Had an excellent ploughmans salad followed by yummy carrot cake. Fortified by lunch and knowing I had completed 6.2 miles of today's 11 miles I set off with renewed vigour.

The photograph illustrates multiple types of bird boxes on sale at the Myddfai visitor centre.Read more