Brondanw Gardens, Snowdonia North Wales

We visited this lovely garden last week, just over the valley from us! 

The Brondanw Estate lies within the Snowdonia National Park, between Snowdon and the sea. Plas Brondanw is the principal house on the estate.

The gardens at Plas Brondanw are not as famous as his village of Portmeirion, but many people consider them to be Clough's most marvellous creation.

Today the gardens are open to the public, see theAdmission page for details of opening times and costs. There is a cafe at the gardens which serves Welsh produce at its very best.The cafe also offers a catering service for special occasions, christenings, private parties and weddings, see our Weddings page for more.

Breathtaking views from the tower

Yes thats the sea!

Bluebells in the woods

http://www.brondanw.org/english/index.html

Lovely Weekend, Abergavenny Food Festival

http://www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/

What a great weekend this was, well day- we spent the day eating our way around lots and lots of stands selling their lovely foodie goods!!  Of course I hurried to the cheese Macaron?!?! yes you heard (read) it right!  Small little gems, £1 each!!!  No tasters before you buy!  So I gave a pound and had hazelnut  with goats cheese- ok but very strange having cheesy macaron- will stick to my gorg sweet ones- of which I have enjoyed today actually- photos to follow really!


So we had a couple of tipples too which made the day just so lovely.  And then spent time listening to a lovely group.
http://www.littlerumba.com/

Fun was had!!!

Colour in the garden & village sales!!

Lovely flowers in our little garden- a bolt of colour in the greenness here!!

 I had a table at the village hall sale this weekend- selling lettuce, shallots, garlic, potatoes, courgette, mange- tout, herbs, sloe gin & rum and our elderflower champagne - oh also cake and flapjack.  The jars I filled with american pancake mix and used a label from Graphics Fairy. Also used a lovely label for the elderflower champagne!
Very popular home produced items I can say and I felt very proud of each little veg leaving with its purchaser!!

The Travelling son!!!

 At the first station- Wellingborough! Our son is on his way to his adventure in Europe!!

 Monkey on his first of many trains!

Just going into customs at St Pancras!! on his way!!

Well our Lewis has been travelling for 9 days he has been to: London, Paris, Dijon, Nice, Milan... wow what a lot! Also seen his grandparents on the way and celebrated Bastille day with them.  Off next to Zurich.  Follow his blog http://lewisislost.blogspot.com/