Leominster / Devil’s Bridge – 12.-14.8.2023

We spent part of the day with relatives – it was great to see them again 🙂 Then we drove westwards, i.a. close to Ludlow – anybody who knows „The meaning of Liff“ by Douglas Adams understands my reference to Ludlow – we use that word now and then at home 🙂

Still in England, we visited Leominster. It’s worth a visit with its timber-framed houses.

Scones and coffee at The Press Room was delicious 🙂 I’m sure I mentioned it before – the British are very fond of their dogs 🙂

On our stroll through town we saw a lot of narrow alleys …

… and narrow streets.

We enjoyed it, and once again, took far too many photos 😉

Some details 😉

A store in a building that used to be a church ! The red telephone booths still exist, some with a telephone, some with a defibrillator, or with once-loved books 🙂

We spent the night just across the border to Wales, in Presteigne at the Coed Nash Wood. The following day we drove west. Twice we were held up by a tractor with a huge load of straw.

It astounds us again and again, how the British park their cars in narrow roads. As soon as there are no double yellow lines, they just have to park a car, no matter how narrow the road gets because of that…

At Woodlands Tea Room we had a coffee. There we saw that the Devil’s Bridge is just around the corner.

Of course we wanted to go and have a look.

First we did the waterfall walk. Right at the beginning of that walk you see the three bridges. Legend would have us believe that the devil built the first bridge. Realistically, it was monks that built it in the 11th century.

The gorge is very deep. Apparently there are 675 steps!

The forest was full of moss and fern and gnarled trees 🙂

Some of the steps were very steep !

A metal bridge crossed the water at the bottom.

On the other side it went upward.

The path was closer to the waterfalls.

There is a robber’s cave.

Often the steps were uneven and slippery, luckily we had no problem climbing them.

The waterfalls were lovely 🙂

At the top again.

The top bridge looks quite normal.

We decided to also do the little walk to the punchbowl.

We climbed down to the bottom of the gorge, straight under the bridges.

The punchbowl.

After this great experience we drove on to Llan-Non near Cardigan. There are many places we left out on this trip (e.g. Porthmadog, Snowdon, Elan Valley and much more) – we’ll definitely go back to Wales another time!

We had a lovely meal at „The white Swan Inn“ and parked for the night on the school grounds next to it.

The next morning we saw a fantastic rainbow 🙂

Along the coast to Llwyncelyn to do a wash.

We stayed at the campsite Cardigan Bay.

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