Home - 2024 - UK trip - Day 7 - Wales


Photographer: Josh Eckels


Morning at our rental house

Breakfast stop on the road

Sampling the gooseberry fool

Monmonth Castle, birthplace of Henry V

Monmonth Castle

Military museum

Window detail

Monmonth Castle

War memorial

Raglan Castle

Half of the Great Tower

Inside the court, playing a tune

Fish inspection station

Down in the kitchen

Court

Burglar bars

Perched in the window

Roofless tower

Spiraling up

End of the Long Gallery

From the top of the Grand Staircase

Window frames

On the wall

The moat and bridge

A bit swampy

Clearing skies

Exit pathway

Narrow road to our trailhead

Trailhead for our Pen Y Gadair Fawr hike

Nice bridge, but not our trail

Into the ferns!

Streams everywhere

Sheep on the slopes

Upwards

Climbing above the valley

Suspicious sheep

A staredown

Heather scattered in the bogs

Dark clouds approaching

Hail, rain, and wind at the peak

Absorbing the Welsh weather

Pelting rain for the moment

A pause

Starting to clear up again

First peek at the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir

Small and soft

Sheep bones

Wool bits

Little shed upstream

Crossing the dam

Grwyne Fawr Reservoir

Looking down down down

Streams in the other valley

Livestock pens

Sunny again

More stone walls

Perched on the fence

Pausing at Cadair Viewpoint

Cadair Viewpoint

Cadair Viewpoint

Soaking in the view and sun

The loft at our cottage in Machynlleth

Downstairs at the cottage

Bathroom at the cottage

Outside the cottage

Sunset over the hills and the bridge over Afon Dulas

Pub dinner at The Red Lion. Good vibes!

 

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