Well, its Easter, an early one this year, which means in one financial year we had two lots of Easter Bank Holidays, and none in next years Financial year.. Wow ;o)
Went back to Pembs for a couple of days over the Bank Holiday, so we dossed around a bit and went for a kebab. Sunday morning (with a slight hangover, and minus one hour sleep thanks to the clocks going back I set off for a half around Haverfordwest. Took the by-pass and headed over to the Rhos, quite a good circuit, a little hilly in places, but just about exactly 13 miles. Was a decent day, but it did pour down a couple of times, luckily just for a short time.
Off to the Wolfe for food, which was pretty decent, then off visiting for the night.
Next day, we set off up to Chester, with the idea of having a night in rural mid-wales on the way up. We stopped at LLandridnod Wells for a bite to eat for lunch, then found ourselves n the Lion Hotel in the middle of no where early afternon. We stayed in Llanbister, which just had a couple of houses and the hotel, and spend pretty much all afternoon and evening boozing and chatting to the locals – only half what we normally do. Our friendly local seemed very keen in being involved on our table, and we found out that he liked to have a beer or 10, and that he could “balance” things. Which he showed us by balancing to budwiser bottles neck on neck on top of a pint glass. Then we had a curry in the hotel which wasn’t ace.
Breakfast in the morning was okay, but we had the landlord almost sit with us, and chat whilst we were trying to eat – not my cup of tea. Soon left and headed up to Chester and the zoo…
Decent run up, and we were soon directed into the bog of a car park, everyone was getting stuck and slipping and sliding. Zoo was okay as far as zoo’s go, but often all you see is the display card stating what fantastic animal is supposedly in the enclosure, but prefers to just hid all day.
Back to the hotel, in Chester, and off for a walk of half the walls and some perusing of the local public houses. We were very lucky to find a very good italian on our walks, who just managed to squeeze us in, it was chocka.
Next morning I took a little run around the city, just about 3 miles all told, then the two of us left our daughter in the room, and had some breakfast and a stroll around the town again.
A little later it was time to head down to Shrewsbury, on the way we stopped at Oswestry, as we had not been there before, and it was on the way – it was rubbish.
Once we managed to find the hidden car park for the Premier Inn, we had a bit of a mooch around Shrewsbury, a fairly decent town, and later went for a pretty good turkish.
I had to drop the car off in the garage on Friday so took my running kit and ran the 10 miles home, all looking good on the knee front, we went for a hike around Tintern the next day, and I completed a half on the Sunday.
Miles: 34
Beers: no idea, but more than 2