Three Welsh Peaks with tour guide, Jade.

After sadly leaving our Sherrington house sit and saying goodbye to Janet and Mike, we met up  with Jade, bussed to Bristol and hired a little camper called Frank!!

We drove all the way up to Conwy on back roads. Beautiful country side and quaint little towns. We stayed the night at Trwyn yr Wylfa campsite, the same camp site that Jade and Tessa stayed at 4 years earlier.

DAY ONE- Snowdon

Our first peak to conquer was Snowdon - the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1.085 metres above sea level. Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) is located in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd.  A 6 hour walk with very little shelter (no trees) along the way. We walked up the Miners Track, which started off gently walking around small lakes and got more rugged further on. 

Unfortunately it was a cold cloudy day at the top, people were queuing for an hour to get a photo at the top monument, funnily a tourist train track was coming up from the other side😅.

DAY TWO- Cadair Idris 

Carer Idris (Chair of Idris) is a mountain that lies at the southern end of Snowdonia National Park, 893 metres above sea level.  Local legend has it if you stay overnight on the mountain you'll end up mad or a poet!  The walk was a 4 hour return on the Pony Path. The distinctive shape of the mountains peaks we could see as drove towards our days walk.

DAY THREE - Pen y Fan

Our last peak was in the southern end of Wales in the Brecon Beacons National Park, at 886 metres called Pen y Fan (which roughly translates to Top Spot). This was the easiest of the three peaks taking less than three hours in total, a rolling moorland hill with great views, but still no trees. Our bodies thought it was a good walk to finish on! This walk was a very popular walk with the locals calling it a motorway😃.

All three peaks had multiple tracks up them - unlike NZ, which generally only has one track per peak! This did make it challenging to workout which way to go up and down!

Jade organised a great time away!! The wee camper, Frank was a success as were our legs😆.