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Through Wales
It’s been a Tour of Wales this last week, from a splendid day on the Brecon Beacons last Friday..
..to a weekend with friends at Kings School Hawford to watch the Six Nations, but also, as their children are committed sportspeople, Under 12 Netball on Saturday morning and Under 14 rugby sevens on Sunday. I think it’s been more than ten years since I was last on a school sport touch line
Sunday it was on to Hay on Wye, and few hours in the book shops.
Three rare Simenon’s, great finds..
Then, early in the week, through a rainy mid-Wales, Bluith Wells and Rhyader, to Coed Y Brenin Forest Park. I used to bring school groups here twenty five years ago. In those days it was a new venture, but now it is considerably expanded and much easier to get to, as the entrance is just off the A road north of Dolgellau
There is supposed to be no overnight parking, but all the parking pay stations are being redone, and cameras put in. I arrived late afternoon and asked one of the guys working on the installation, and he said it wouldn’t be a problem, though in two days, when the cameras are in, it would have meant a large fine.
I was always going to spend sometime in Eryri, or Snowdonia, but was looking for a ‘weather window’. That came today, Wednesday, so I arrived last night to the Bryn Tyrch site in wild weather. I used to use this site when I worked in Lytham and on the Wirral, but thirty years on and it has barely changed. It’s £10 a night, a good price, as staying elsewhere in the National Park is strictly forbidden.
And this morning the promised fine weather arrived..

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