Having never really spent much time locally during the holiday around here, we are taking the opportunity to do a bit of exploring from the front door. Having studied the local Ordnance Survey map, it reveled a network of footpaths; most of which we’d never really noticed before. So we set off to try out Read more

The trouble with riding a bike around here is that you are never far from having to peddle uphill. For today’s ‘daily exercise’ away from The Cottage, we rode straight up the hill behind us. It was far from ideal in terms of having a warm-up, but did give us plenty of exercise and some Read more

All mountain activities have ceased for the time being so I’ve been spending a good deal of time over the last week devising online Outdoor Education activities for my students. Here in Wales, we are still allowed out to exercise once a day as long as it’s to and from our front door (i.e: you Read more

With more reports of overcrowding in the National Park, we set off from The Cottage on a route we were pretty sure would not be overrun. We certainly saw more wild horses than people. We headed out onto a peak that we’ve only been on once or twice before and took in several others along Read more

Hearing news that the whole country has flocked to the National Parks, we decided to stay put, only venturing out late in the afternoon for ride up the valley. This time, with no eBike assistance to help gain some more fitness. Where ever the masses had come to, it wasn’t here… There was a really Read more

I’m still trying to get my lungs back up to full working order, so we continued with our recent flurry of hill walking again today. Plenty of isolation to be had over on the far side of Snowdon too. Starting from Beddgelert, we made an ascent of Moel Hebog. It’s only a 35 minute drive Read more