Woods, Walls and Water

It was freezing today! Literally. The last few winters in the UK have been pretty mild and all this cold weather stuff comes as a shock. But rather than stay in the house on a lazy December Sunday we decided to tackle a 7 mile walk from our guidebook "Lower Wye Rambles". This isn't the best of guide books and the author obviously has problems with navigation. The directions can verge on undecipherable at times but there is one GREAT walk in the book and it starts at SO524029.



The walk includes a waterfall (pictured) but also includes some great views and some lovely forest walking. But the thing that I like about this walk are the little lanes and footpaths around Lllandogo. It is reminiscent of The Shire in Lord of the Rings. I'd love to do it on a foggy evening but since we get lost when doing the walk in good conditions that might not be the best of ideas.

Anyway, what with the cold weather and a minor detour due to guide book problems we decided to truncate the walk and got back to the car 3 hours after the start. It was 10 miles back to our house in Chepstow and we were soon drinking tea and eating tart in front of the fire with the cat.