Tag: Resolven

  • St Illtud’s Walk, day 7: Resolfen to Afan Argoed

    St Illtud’s Walk, day 7: Resolfen to Afan Argoed

    Another nine-mile walk over hills between valleys, this time Cwm Nedd and Cwm Afan. It’s too complex and time-consuming today to take buses, our favoured means of transport, so C and I are reduced to the two-car trick, leaving one at our destination, the Afan Argoed Visitor Centre, and taking the other, via Pontrhydyfen and…

  • 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…