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Brecon Beacons

Friday 25th September 2015

Another quality breakfast although the young waitress gets completely confused when taking our order for salmon and scrambled egg.Finally it all arrives OK but the toast is burned to extinction. G requests replacements and these duly appear looking fairly edible.
Check out of the hotel and head south into the Brecon Beacons Nat. Park eventually stopping at the start of the Pen-Y-Fan trek to the top of the mountain of the same name.
This turns out to be a moderately demanding walk offering some great views over the surrounding countryside.
A surprising number of trekkers are out and about fairly early and Gail and I make good progress up the mountain. As we have allowed only 2 hours I leave Gail to continue up the final steeper slope to a plateau with 360 degrees vista. G in fact continues the climb after I go ahead and she handles the trek very well with only the time limit preventing her from joining me at what I assume is the peak. On arriving at the plateau I realise that the top of Pen-Y-Fan is in fact a second peak at the same altitude and packed out with the early birds who obviously had less problems with a confused waitress and burnt toast!

              
Back down in Brecon we stop off for a decidedly underwhelming coffee and cake after which we set off on the road to Builth Wells , Llandrindod Wells and then on through some very picturesque countryside to Stafford.
My brother Tony and his wife Marg are both looking very well and suntanned after a week’s holiday in Portugal.
After a lovely dinner we spend the rest of the evening just relaxing and catching up on events since we last saw them in January 2014.

Cheers

The Obese Ferret