Tag Archives: Wales

Welshcakes (picau ar y maen)

Welshcakes can be traced back in time to one of the earliest forms of baking, where a flatstone would be placed onto an open fire and small flat cakes would be griddled on top of the hot stone.
It is a shame that they are not more widely available outside of their native Wales as they [...]

Welsh Toffee Waffles

Having missed out on International Waffle Day (March 25th) I was pleased to have found a source of toffee waffles in Crickhowell – and they would make good rations for strolls over the Brecon Beacons…

Pen-y-Fan panorama

The views from the top of Pen-y-Fan were superb

A week in the Brecon Beacons

David invited me to visit Dyffryn Crawnon in the Brecon Beacons for a week, and while he set about on repairs to the bunkhouse I have the opportunity to stretch my legs over a beacon or two.
The first amble was up and around the head of Dyffryn Crawnon valley, but from there I caught glimpses [...]

Big Pit

he weather we had experienced at the top of Pen-y-Fan now seemed to have reached us in the valley. This morning was not a time to be outside. We headed off to Big Pit.
Big Pit is a real coal mine, and above ground felt strangely eerie – like an enormous ghost of the industrial [...]

Pen-y-Fan

im invited me along to another walking trip with the NIMR hill walking club, this time to the Brecon Beacons.
It was late on friday night when we passed over the River Severn and paid our £5.10 to get into Wales. Why is it £5.10 and not an even £5 which would be so much [...]