June 10, 2016 to April 12, 2020
Back to Abermule- Welsh Weekend
Leisure cycling in Wales
Friday: Early morning train to Newton via Birmingham and Shrewsbury. Newton by midday, to collect bikes from cycle shop. Michael’s pedal repair completed. We find our way to the canal path and race back to Abermule looking out for places where the dreaded hawthorn hedges have been trimmed. Between river and canal we speed, light with only our London luggage aboard. We pass swans and sygnets, under the bridges and up at canal bridge 147 to Abermule and Rock Mill. Find Rufus energetically bucketing water on the chestnut trees, as no rain yet.
Nice to be back to the sound of the babbling brook.
Saturday: Saturday starts with a pre breakfast cycle to Abermule to check out the local car boot sale. Come away with prize Lilies and parsley. We breakfast and picnic packed, Rufus drives us towards Oswestry and the “Pistyll Rhaedr ” waterfall. To earn our sandwiches we hike from the valley uphill towards Cadir Brewyn, circling around to the top of the falls at 80ft. Down for a shady picnic, then on to a National Gardens Trust open garden,high in the hills.
Lovely colours of yellow, blue and white, against the stunning green farmland surrounding. Not a contender in my opinion, with Rock Mill gardens, but I may be biased.
Sunday: has us on cycles powering off to Tregynon house at Gregynog ( pronounced Gru-gun-og).
This involves negotiating a few miles of hills and dales and winding lanes. The house built of concrete by a concrete entrepreneur, and gardens were bequeathed to Aberystwyth University, and are used for conferences and weddings. A forest walk and a cup of tea, and a return ride back to Abermule, blessedly downhill all the way, for a late lunch. Time then, to prepare for the next leg of our trip, to Plymouth by train, from where we catch the ferry to France.
Today's ride: 15 km (9 miles)
Total: 92 km (57 miles)
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