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A favourite forest walk
Jul. 14th, 2024 02:29 pmYesterday (Saturday) we finally got our weekly walk. The weather was a bit blah, hence very few photos. I didn't even manage the weekly photo topic which was "B is for Bench". There are a few benches in the forest at viewpoints, but we didn't pass one, unfortunately.
Anyway, I drove us to the small car park in the village of Ganllwyd and we walked from there.
Crossing the stone bridge at the start of the walk, you cross the Afon Eden, one of the many rivers that join the Afon Mawddach to eventually reach the sea at Barmouth. The others in the Coed y Brenin are the Afon Gain, Afon Gamlan and the Afon Wen.
The total walk is 4½ miles and fairly level. The circular route has a convenient tunnel to take walkers and cyclists safely under the main road (A470) to reach the forest on the other side. I've done the walk often and as the weather was, as I said, blah, I only took one other photo. A typical forest track.
The mountain bike routes are far more adventurous and in fact there are smaller and prettier footpaths which I've posted photos of before, but this is a nice gentle walk to get fresh air and have a break from doing indoor stuff.
In other news, our son M is taking part in the Touch Rugby World Cup. He's playing for the Welsh over 35s team and their first match is on Tuesday morning against Australia. Fortunately it's not a simple knock out or that would probably be the only match he'd play! :-) They're arranged into groups and play quite a few games, then the winners of the groups go forward to the quarter finals.
I don't think the matches are being televised, but there's a WhatsApp channel and YouTube channel, so there may be a recording of the match.
Anyway, I drove us to the small car park in the village of Ganllwyd and we walked from there.
Crossing the stone bridge at the start of the walk, you cross the Afon Eden, one of the many rivers that join the Afon Mawddach to eventually reach the sea at Barmouth. The others in the Coed y Brenin are the Afon Gain, Afon Gamlan and the Afon Wen.
The total walk is 4½ miles and fairly level. The circular route has a convenient tunnel to take walkers and cyclists safely under the main road (A470) to reach the forest on the other side. I've done the walk often and as the weather was, as I said, blah, I only took one other photo. A typical forest track.
The mountain bike routes are far more adventurous and in fact there are smaller and prettier footpaths which I've posted photos of before, but this is a nice gentle walk to get fresh air and have a break from doing indoor stuff.
In other news, our son M is taking part in the Touch Rugby World Cup. He's playing for the Welsh over 35s team and their first match is on Tuesday morning against Australia. Fortunately it's not a simple knock out or that would probably be the only match he'd play! :-) They're arranged into groups and play quite a few games, then the winners of the groups go forward to the quarter finals.
I don't think the matches are being televised, but there's a WhatsApp channel and YouTube channel, so there may be a recording of the match.
