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Flying 12 DHC
goes on its holidays - Part 7
Day 12 - Llandrindod
Wells tour to the Big Pit Coal Museum
The format for the following 4 days were similar. Departing promptly after
breakfast, and following a well reserached route plan, we
set off on a circular tour taking in some of the msot
spectacular roads in Wales and visiting a major attraction en route. No
concessions were made for the ages of the cars, hills requiring
the use of first gear were fairly common, as were cattlegrids
and grass growing in the middle of the the road. A
roads were avoided wherever possible, the majority of the routes being on
B roads and unclassified roads more commonly called Goat Tracks.
The
Big Pit
This, the first day, took in the Black Mountainds and Brecon
Beacons, with a destination of the "Big Pit, near Blaenavon which is
now the National Coal Museum of Wales. Here we were able
to descend underground in cages as the miners did and to eat
in their own canteen. An interesting , and free taster for the
life that these miners had in the South Wales Coalfield.
An equally spectacular
drive back to Llandrindod Wells followed, all arriving safely for an evening
meal at the hotel. It rained most of the day
Day 13 - LLandrindod Wells tour to the
Welsh Whisky Distillery at Penderyn.
Another superb mountain tour taking in the only
Welsh Whisky Distillery, where we were treated to a guided tour and
sampling. A rather wetter
day than the one that preceded it, though it did stop
raining for a short time. Lynda and I were not impresssed with the
Whisky but were more taken with the Cream Liquour so took a bottle of
that home.
Day 14 - LLandrindod Wells tour to the
Centre for alternative Energy
We resolved that if the weather had not
improved we would give this day a miss. As it was raining when we
got up, this is precicely what we did. So instead of following the
monotonously slow action of our windscreen wipers, we decided to
give them a well earned day off and find alternative means of
amusing ourselves. Llandindod Wells has its own railway, the
Heart of Wales line, so we turned up at the station to find out
where we could go. We found that there were only 4 trains a day in
each direction and the first scheduled to arrive was destined to
travel to Shrewsbury. We decided to take it as far as Knighton in
Shropshire. The Ticket master told us that the line was heavily
subsidised by the E.U and that the return fare was just £3.40
At
least a railway carriage gives a different view of the rain! More
suprising was that the rain stopped by the time we got to Knighton
Anyway, Knighton turned out to be a pretty Market town. It was
Thursday and the Tourist signs said that was market day,
unfortunately it was only one Thursday per month, and not the
Thursday that we arrived on. Still we were able to view the Offas
Dyke Visitor Centre and benefit from an excellent bar
lunch.
The remainder of the party took
the prescribed route to the Alternative Energy Centre, Lynda and I
had visited this before which was another reason for us to give this
a miss.
Day 12
- 100 miles
DaY 13
- 90 miles
Day 14
- 0 miles
Phil Homer.
Reporting from St. Albans
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