Day 2 - A Chilly Walk on a Grey Day

It was a real struggle to pick a photo today.....and it's only day 2! This is not going to be easy! 


Anyway after a bit of tidying up and making some soup with our post Christmas turkey stock, (which I did not photograph!) we went for a walk with friends. Temperatures were just above freezing, the sky was grey, the light even greyer and the landscape bleak. We had a lovely time! After a hearty lunch in the Brecon Beacons Mountain Centre we went for a walk over Mynydd Illtyd Common ending at an old motte in the fields adjacent. This was a small but impressive structure with a deep ditch surrounding the mound.  Remains of sturdy stone walls lined the hollow within the motte, presumably there was originally a round tower here, I know nothing of its history so will have to do some research.


























The photo is of LB atop the motte looking over the ditch and commonland towards the snowy peak of Pen y Fan. Not a brilliant photo as I struggled with the poor light and featureless landscape.  It's the best of a bad bunch but, for me, it's a nice reminder of a lovely winter walk