A very wet day out - Llwyn Celyn

 Here is a link to when Keith and I visited Llwyn Celyn, 2 years ago now.  I am so glad Keith got to see it as he loved the house.  This shows the rooms and beautiful periodfurniture well.

Well, it poured with rain all day on Saturday and it was a repeat again yesterday.  I have to say, if you only go out when the weather is fine in the UK, you'd have very few days out!  So we braved the weather and drove through one end of the Black Mountains, past Tretower Court and Castle, through Crickhowell and along a series of back lanes to get to Llwyn Celyn.  With Tam's Satnav, we didn't get lost this time!

The view from the front hallway.  One of the lovely volunteers (a local) said she always told her children that the mist was Dragon's Breath :)

Tam and Rosie in the snug sitting room.  Rosie will soon be too big for that cosy sling!

The main room in the house.  There is a book of photographs of the farmhouse before it was taken back in time, and this wonderful old fireplace used to be bricked up and a hideous 20's/30's beige tile fireplace covered it up.  Just like at Ynyswen.

This is blocked up now but was probably the original Medieval staircase to the upper floor.  The house dates to 1420 by the way.

An interesting little cupboard in the wall.

Keith loved this upper sitting room with its vaulted ceiling.  It reminded us of our finished attic rooms in Ynyswen.

This old farm building is now overflow accommodation and has a roomy bedroom and bathroom.  This may have been like our old Cart Shed.

At the back of that barn was this big old stone trough for the cattle.

In one of the big barns were all the old bits which had been taken out of the house - hinges and door fittings mainly.

A jumble of old things found in the house, now a display.

A long view of the barn.

Rather than go back along the little lanes, we dropped down onto the A465 by the Skirrid Inn, and went into Abergavenny and paid Waitrose a visit.  Haven't been there for a couple of years now.  We bought lunch and a few bits including a nice Chinese stir fry mix for tonight, to use with leftover roast chicken.  We couldn't resist a bake each - I had a Cherry Lattice and Tam had an Apple Crumble Danish.  A lovely treat, eaten straight away in the car.  I got sandwiches for lunch (eaten back at home) - Seafood Cocktail.  I can honestly say it was the nicest sandwich I've ever had.  I would have put money on it being prawns and crab, but the crab element turned out to be flaked Pollack.  Gosh it was good.  Tam had a dish of Salmon Rice with Edamame beans.  I couldn't afford to shop there all the time, but it made a nice change, and their Essential items are the same as Tesco or Aldi in price (I got cheese and cherry tomatoes).

Today will be a rest day (I woke at 1.30, came down an hour later and it's now 3.50 . . .) and we won't be going far. It is STILL raining.