For this trip myself, Natalie, Paul, Kat, Boris, and Kat went to Talybont-on-Usk for the weekend, staying in a rather nice bed and breakfast called The Malt House. This place is highly recommended; the quality of the accommodation was very high, breakfast was fantastic, and the owners were very hospitable and helpful.

Shortly after we arrived on Friday evening we headed over to The White Hart pub to acclimatise ourselves. After a very nice meal we rounded off the evening with a six player game of Settlers of Catan.

Saturday saw us set out directly from Talybont-on-Usk, straight onto the hills and on up to Bryn. We took an early exit at this point due to poor weather conditions, if the weather had been better it’s not unreasonable to think we could have made it to Fan y Big and even Pen y Fan. This is the route we took:

We were out for about four hours in total, and after we got warm and dry again back at the B&B, we headed over to The Star Inn. This had a wood fire going, lots of real ales available, and was very comfortable. More board games and merriment followed 🙂

On Sunday we did the Henry Vaughan walk after breakfast (route below), which was quite enjoyable as the weather had improved considerably!