First stop, literally as the road was blocked, was a beautiful pond, so a chance for a quick Dave n Ducks photo.
Then we saw a sign saying 'castle', well Wales is full of them so off we went to see what we could find, what a treat it was too, Fonmon Castle, only open to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, oh well, that's a shame....but wait a contact number on the sign at the entrance gate. Quick call to ask if we could just pop up for a quick photo. Glad we did, it's beautiful.
And on the way out a folly in the garden, we couldn't get any closer without driving on their lovely lawn, which was a bit of a no no.
Dave also had his first experience of fords, not the dodgy Dagenham dustbins, but the roads through streams, sorry no pictures of them as they were quite deep and I wasn't going wading!
The other amazing find was an empty shell of a ancient stone manor house in the village of Llantrithyd, unfortunately the land had a working cowshed on it, so didn't want to take Dave into the field without the farmer's permission, shame as it would have made a fabulous back drop.
All in all a lovely relaxing drive in the Welsh countryside, lots of sun and fresh air, and on the way back to the hotel we stopped to fuel up, 600 miles exactly and 44.4 litres of diesel, 60.1 mpg, not bad, and improving as the engine loosens up.
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