Tag: Crynant

  • St Illtud’s Walk: day 6: Y Creunant to Resolfen

    St Illtud’s Walk: day 6: Y Creunant to Resolfen

    We’ve now erased the dark memory of Day 5, back in November, and today the daylight hours are reassuringly long.  So C and I feel up to tackling another inter-valley stage of the Walk, from Y Creunant to Resolfen.  We should have done this as the coda to the last stage, but exhaustion and fading…

  • St Illtud’s Walk, day 5: Pontardawe to Creunant

    St Illtud’s Walk, day 5: Pontardawe to Creunant

    Forestry isn’t my favourite walking environment, and today has done nothing to shift that prejudice.  It all began so well.  Well, fairly well.  Today C. and I start out by bus.  But since our last encounter with St Illtud, First Cymru has done its best to destroy our local bus timetable.  It now takes nearly…