Third Welsh breakfast in a row for R and first for J (nice lava bread and cockles), then we checked out of the King’s Head and drove an hour towards Llandeilo. We parked in the Coed Tregib nature reserve car park and waited for the rain to stop while watching two Red Kites flying about. J phoned her mum. The rain stopped and we squelched around in the woods. The rain soon started again, torrential for a bit, so we took shelter in some shrubbery.
Then it brightened up and the sun came out.
Great Tits, Goldfinches, Nuthatches, heard a Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Lunch in a nice cafe in Llandeilo. Welsh Rarebit and a salad.
After lunch we mooched around town for a bit, read the history on an educational board (something to do with Own Glyndwr) and went to the churchyard, and then drove to the Red Kite Feeding Station at Llanddeusant. At 1:30pm we paid our £6 each and were let into the hide.
There were many Kites wheeling around. At 2pm the feeding began (beef and lamb, apparently).
We stayed for nearly an hour watching the Kites. A buzzard visited too, and lots of crows and magpies.
Then we drove 40 minutes to Peterstone Court, on the other side of Brecon.
It’s quite posh and fancy. Nice big comfortable room.
After a drink in the bar we were wafted into a grand dining room with a high ceiling and chandeliers and tables draped with white linen and all about us drenched in beige from the beige walls and the muslin hangings and the beige pumpkins on the piano (it being Halloween tonight), and two open-flame gas fires burning at either end of the room. Staff nice and relaxed, and food very good. Sardines, chicken terrine, mushroom wellington, venison, cheese.