Nearly 2 weeks ago (I am getting a bit slack - probably due to non gaming related activities) the beeper half and my good self headed across the board to Wales to visit the Brecon Beacons National park.
A we had a very good time - except for the walk up Pen y Fan which as you can see from the pictures was a tad damp. This was in the middle of a UK heatwave… it has taken a week for the walking boot to dry out from the walk going down are legs to fill them up …
After going back to the accommodation to change and dry off a bit we headed off to Brecon town itself. A nice little place. Also home to the museum of 24th Foot - South Wales Borderers, of Zulu War fame.
The flag over Rorke’s Drift and the VC of some of the outpost’s defenders and victims of Isandlwana. Some really interesting history there. Below a couple of pictures of an impressive diorama in the Zulu war room.
A fascinating museum - which had also opened up their educational rooms that day to have a look around. They had a lot of home front information there and about 5 hand written notebooks by a Brecon boy from the start of the war until sometime in 1942 - which the curator believed ended as he was called up.
A copy of the page on the channel dash by
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen (this stood out as I remember reading an account of this as a teenager myself) - the lad was not impressed with the navy’s performance - the quick scan of the notebooks indicated possibly some different interpretations of the events happening in the war at the time compared to a lot of the big picture history I have read - really interesting and to think these were just handed to the curator in the street in a box file or shoe box and could have easily gone to the tip.
The following day we headed out on another walk. This time Henrhyd (or Batman) waterfall.
A nice walk - the falls didn’t have as much water as usual, due to the dry conditions we have been having recently (as clearly shown in the BL where there was not water in that little fall).
A good couple of days away - only spoiled by the torturous journey back home. Planning to go back and try to get up Pen y Fan and see a view …
A nice walk - the falls didn’t have as much water as usual, due to the dry conditions we have been having recently (as clearly shown in the BL where there was not water in that little fall). 
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