A lotta lotta pics

[Derek]

The whole weekend just disappeared.
Fri morning before the start of another set of adventures ...


Not long after the above pic we took off for a walk in the country and a pub lunch.


Passed this sign at the entrance to a farm


Thats the only pics from this walk .. I've posted pics before from it and the pub.
Fri eve we had a map meeting about our walk for sun. They stuck the hat, shades and pipe on me for the pic ... we had a good night, it was a laff!

[Derek]

Sat morning and were going flying our model planes


A pic of our planes on the field


Keith just before launching off ...


Unfortunately it ended up here ... it did break all the nose etc .. we stuck it in a mole hill for effect.


Thats the only pics I got from the flying ...

[Derek]

Sat eve and we had to go to the church hall. I offered to run our pa system for a Auction that was taking place to raise money for The Guide Dogs for the Blind. It was a really great night and very well supported.




Taking a break


These guys were getting really bored


Just before we set off back home after packing everything up. The auction raised £1500 for the Guide Dogs ...

[Derek]

Sun morning 7am and were at the central bus station waiting for our bus. We decided on walking up Penyfan, the highest mountain in South Wales.


The bus was crammed in the end and they had to put another bus on. The bus we were on had a cycle trailer on the back as well.
When we eventually reached a forestry commission centre many people got off and unhooked their bikes to set off somewhere. I had never seen a bike like this before.


A stop later and we got off and took to the track we needed ..


Its a long haul up


But we kept beavering away ..

[Derek]

A few pics of the views going up ..

[Derek]

Taking a breather at the top


Then we headed across the ridge




Then we reached an oberlisk

[Derek]

We were going to walk a through route and catch the bus at a different stop. This was the view as we started decending the ridge


We soon reached a small lake .. the path we needed to take is just above it and continues all the way down to the farmland in the distance.


A quick pose


The countryside started to change quite rapidly


Then eventually we found a track

[Derek]

This welsh hillfarm was still a working farm.


Just after the farm we had to follow a stream for about 2 miles


Then it was across some farmland


We passed another lovely farmhouse


It had an old barn coverted into a bunk house for walkers as well.

[Derek]

Then it was onto another track which took us passed this little place .. we all could have settled here


Eventually we came to more of a lane


Then we passed this old watermill. We found out later its availeble for weekly let as a holiday home.


The views from the mill

[Derek]

An hour and a half after the mill we came out on the main road and only half a mile from a little watering hole I know.




Its really nice and cosy inside ..