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Posted: 22:40 - 07 Sep 2014 Post subject: Another Wales Weekender - pic heavy |
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Saturday afternoon, headed to Llandovery and Erwlon campsite. Tent pitched, and a meal at the West End Café, I headed up the Black Mountains:
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Carreg Cennan from Black Mts:
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Having fun in the fading light:
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Tent and kit packed, saw these at breakfast:
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So much for everyone in Wales being poor!
First destination, Llyn Brianne:
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Then Tregaron, Devil's Bridge, and the Cwmyswyth mountain road:
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Of course... :
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Then Elan Valley:
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Nope, no idea what was going on:
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Then Rhayader and Llanidloes to Llyn Clywedog:
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Great weather, beautiful scenery, and great roads; that'll do me!:
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I do believe I can see Snowdon from here!:
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I hadn't actually planned on going so far north today, but it all just sucks you in; this is Aberdovey on the Dovey Estuary:
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And back via Tal-y-Llyn, Cadair Idris etc:
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460 miles covered in the weekend, must go again sometime ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 22:59 - 07 Sep 2014 Post subject: |
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Wales is right on my doorstep, I really must do this. Looks gorgeous!
Beautiful scenery. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Posted: 23:16 - 07 Sep 2014 Post subject: |
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Some great pics there! |
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Posted: 15:40 - 08 Sep 2014 Post subject: |
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Copycat73 wrote: | Skudd wrote: | We have some lovely places on this island and you wonder why people go over the channel. |
there comes a point when most places have been visited if not in whole but in part.. then further afield looks very inviting .. particularly when its so easy on the ferry or tunnel and fuel is cheaper over there. |
It would take a very long time to see all this country has to offer, perhaps more than a lifetime. I suppose it depends in what you're interested in. If it's just riding the very best of our roads, then yes, I can see how you could run out of options. But then again, why should riding a good road once mean that all of a sudden, it's not worth doing again? If you do track days, you ride the same little circuit time and again, and often go back more than once to the same circuit.
For me, there is the scenery, places of interest, ever-changing weather for photography - you never quite see the same place twice. You can ride it alone or in groups and vary what you do at each destination. I can't see me ever exhausting that.
Of course I'd love to explore abroad too and unfortunately had to cancel doing so this year. But I'm not finished with Britain yet either. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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HT wrote: | Thankyou again. |
My dear chap, the pleasure was all mine
Sometimes it feels like all this riding in beautiful places, combined with the photography (amateur though it may be) is leading up to something. God only knows what though; 1200 miles covered in two weekends, so a hole in my bank account most likely ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Wow HT, you've put me on the spot there! I tried to answer that and ended up rambling away like a loony, so deleted the reply
To cut a long story short, I'm soon going to be in a position I've never been in before with some choices laid before me. The main part of that I think I've now decided on. But yeah, I'm hoping also to have the means to do something quite extended on the bike before returning to the grind. Maybe next year or the year after (if it's 2016, 2015 is going to be a bitch!).
Too easy in this life to just go along with "the norm" - sometimes I think you have to cut loose a little. If you've got something in mind, my answer would be to go for it and sod the consequences, but I'm lucky enough (? ) in that I have no dependants, so I can get away with it once in a while. But this feels like I'm trying to tell someone who's a lot wiser than me anyway.
Question is, could BCF take an adventure/photography post that stretches to War & Peace proportions? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 20:31 - 08 Sep 2014 Post subject: |
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You have just posted up most of the places I ride most weekends . |
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sidewinder wrote: | You have just posted up most of the places I ride most weekends . |
Me too, love it I'm guessing you're local to the area? Trouble for me is, I have to ride from Oxfordshire to get there.
arry wrote: | I was there this weekend too. Unfortunately one of our number binned it on the 4069 and went down a ravine.
I tell you one thing - it gets cold, dark and lonely up on that mountain at night. Spent 3 hours standing in the cold waiting for his bike to be recovered whilst he went off to Morriston Hospital |
Sorry to hear that, hope he makes a full recovery. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Wotcha.
Ah, the Elan Valley.
I was there this weekend too - I believe the helicopter was giving folks a flying tour of the dams . . . . bloody noisy thing . . . .not like nice quiet motorbikes ____________________ Cheers.
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sidewinder wrote: | Live in newtown so on the door step for great roads |
Jammy git!
Newtown isn't too bad for me to get to, all the mid Wales area within reach for a day ride, but north of there means needing to camp overnight really. Longest day trip I've done out that way was 450 miles, starting from, and returning to home, but it was a bit much for me really.
Since learning my way around Wales, I've pretty much given up on my home area ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Let us know when your down this way again |
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Posted: 21:57 - 09 Sep 2014 Post subject: Re: Another Wales Weekender - pic heavy |
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Awesome.
I love the Llandovery area having visited twice with my mate in his Landy.
We headed into the hills ASAP so didn't get to see much of the twisty roads so I'm gonna have to re-visit on the bike one day and maybe stay at the excellent Llanerchindda Farm again. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 9 years, 202 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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