Category: Travel
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Wales Day 14: Caerleon Roman Sites, Tintern Abbey and on to England
Thursday 15th May 2025 Today we packed up to head towards Stonehenge, but first we had a few more sites to visit in Wales. Our first stop was the Caerleon Roman Sites. The permanent legionary fortress was built in AD75 and was occupied for 200 years. You can visit the baths, the amphitheater and the…
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Wales Day 13: Pen-y-Fan and Hay-on-Wye
Wednesday 14th May 2025 This morning we had coffee and pastries at Coffee#1 in Brecon and picked up some BLT sandwiches while we were there for a picnic lunch. We were headed for Pen-y-Fan, the highest mountain in South Wales. When we arrived, there was a National Park Warden at the trailhead who let us…
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Wales Day 12: Brecon Canal and Blaenhavon
Tuesday 13th May This morning I did my long run along the Brecon Canal. I did an out and back of just over 21K. The scenery was gorgeous. This was probably my favourite run of our trip, especially since I did not need to think about where I was going because the run started and…
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Sydney Marathon Weekend
Last weekend we traveled to Sydney for the Sydney Marathon. G and some of our running friends were running, I was up for the spectating and socialising. We took some extra days, flying up on Thursday and returning on Tuesday. The flight up wasn’t great. As we approached Sydney and the plane decreased altitude we…
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Wales Day 11: Four Waterfalls Walk
Monday 12th May 2025 Today we checked out of the Priory and headed towards Brecon. On our way to the Four Waterfalls Walk we picked up rolls and water from Pret-a-Manger and fruit and muesli bars from the supermarket for our picnic lunch. We parked at the Cwm Porth Carpark. This walk is in the…
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List #32: Five-year Travel Wish List
I had on my 101 Things list to rough out a five-year travel wish list. G and I did it last month and here it is: You can see we did some mind changing and moving things around while we were working on this. A lot of our travel will be focused on G’s World…
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Wales Day 10: A Couple of Coastal Hikes
Sunday 11th May Today we had a sleep-in then made some phone calls before breakfast. We’d booked in for cooked breakfast at the main hotel and the earliest we could get in was 9:15 am. We both ordered the full Welsh breakfast minus the blood pudding—adventurous eating is not what I feel like in the…
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Wales Day 9: Milford Waterfront Parkrun then Pottering Around St Davids
Saturday 10th May We started our day by driving to Milford Haven to do the Milford Waterfront Parkrun. We got there early so we could use the toilet, but they were locked so we went jogging off along the waterfront looking for an open public toilet. We managed to find one about an kilometer away…
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City to Surf Weekend 2025
Last year I was unable to run in the City to Surf because of a stress fracture, but I had a lovely weekend and the weather was amazing. This year I was finally able to complete my first City to Surf, the weather was horrendous and I still had a (mostly) lovely weekend. We drove…
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List #28: What We Did This Week on the NSW Central Coast
This week we had a little bit of time between leaving Noosa and meeting our friends in Sydney for the City to Surf weekend. Sidenote: there are 90,000 entrants in the race on Sunday so it should be pretty epic with plenty to distract me from my very slow running. On Monday we drove from…