Latest News from our Glamping Snowdonia
The resurrection of Gloria
The rowing season is finally back, lasting from April to October, and with it comes the need to get to Barmouth a couple of times a week. As I don’t wont to drive, fuel costs, parking costs, planetary costs etc I normally cycle. If I go on my mountain bike I end up...
Ain’t no cafe on Cadair
At the weekend we had a visit from our friends Alice and Alex, what better excuse to take the afternoon of to walk up Cadair Idris. We get a lot of visitors who stay with us and aim to tackle Snowdon, we sometimes wonder why they dont set their heights a little lower...
Morning people
This morning I was out on my bike by 7, quick ride up to the Ponderosa and then a loop of the tracks behind Mawddach terrace. By 11 Sarah and I had launched the kayaks at Penmaenpool and paddled up stream towards Llanelltyd. A very good morning on and around the...
CHARACTERS, CAKE & CNICHT
We found this fantastic little art gallery/cafe at the end of a remote valley - you can see "the Welsh Matterhorn", Cnicht, rising just behind the beautifully restored building. There's not much about Oriel Caffi Croesor on the internet so I rang first to check they...
BOGS AND BLOGS
It's been a hard winter: Nick and Dan braved temperatures of -15 on Christmas Eve to win the prize for the Coolest Campers; 14 pipes burst in the camp site wash block....even the blog froze up. But now, dear readers, we're back in action. Spring is in the air and...
IDRIS DETHRONED
Those of you who have stayed in our B & B will have seen the beautiful one-off pieces of furniture made for us by Sylvantutch. Some of the Sylvantutch gang are heading home to South Africa in the near future and, in typically original style, decided to thank Wales...