A Week in the Brecon Beacons, Part Two

This post is a follow on from last week’s blog about our first few days in the Brecon Beacons at the start of July – so if you missed that, make sure to go and…

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A Week in the Brecon Beacons, Part One

It’s been about 5 years since our last trip to the Brecon Beacons, when we had rather a lot of rain and hiking opportunities were mostly limited to forest walks or quick dashes up a…

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Crook Hall Gardens

We’ve been National Trust members for quite a few years now, and had gotten around all of our local places within a year or two of becoming members. We’d kept the membership up though as…

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Yorke’s Folly and Guisecliff Wood

Back on the early May bank holiday weekend, I finally caved and conceded that bank holidays are just not a great time for a weekend away. Yes, you get an extra day off work without…

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Plodda Falls

Back in April during our trip to the West Highlands, we did a day trip up to Inverness-shire to explore some of its woodland walks. It’s one of those places that we’ve driven through a…

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