Day 6: Wales to Crickhowell
After breakfast in the beautiful Victorian Dining room of the hotel we packed the car and drove to Mermaid Quay, Cardiff’s Harbour area.
Overlooking the bay, the waterfront has a cosmopolitan atmosphere, with shops, restaurants, playgrounds, a cultural hub – with an impressive theatre.
We took a short boat trip around the bay and saw some beautiful water birds along the way.
From Cardiff we set off north, passing towns with unpronounceable Welsh names. We arrived at Bear Castle, in Crickhowell, our home for the next 2 nights.
The Bear Hotel was a former coach inn and has been welcoming guests for 500 years. The historic pub has low beams, wooden floors and big open fires. We entered the cobbled forecourt through low archways to a blaze of colored flowers.
We explored the town, which didn’t take long, it is quaint and beautiful. We visited Crickhowell Castle or what was left of it before stopping in at one of the other local pubs in town for lunch in their beautiful gardens.
We had a chilled afternoon before meeting for drinks and dinner in the pub. If anyone ever finds themselves in this pub, I highly recommend the local cider and chicken pie.
We finished off the evening with a 10pm walk to the church and graveyard.
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