Not the best of weather to walk today but its Sunday and we don,t mind a bit of rain. there was a plan B but thats for another day now.
So yesterday i took a nice walk up Bridden hill to Rodney Pillar and today we used a one of the Tittiwake books, this one which has been used quite a bit now was CLWYDIAN RANGE, which we used walk 22 AROUND THE NANT, starting at the unspoiled village of Llanarom yn-ial.
The highest point being Bryn Alyn summit, plenty of Limestone escarpments and old mine working around the Bryn Alyn  summit.
​Just a shame the weather was not brilliant but still great to be out and explore.

Today took a brisk walk up the 403m (1322ft) summit of bridden hill and aloft its summit Rodneys pillar.
After having a mini heat wave the weather today was just a bit gray.
so i have taken the long steady way up via a forest road which is just so easy to walk up and a little bit of a push for the final summit.
which on my arrival of the summit was meet with some really impressive weather with the summit just below the cloud level, at least on the pillar you can sit and enjoy the view sat on the stones of the pillar its self
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In our eyes the most amazing cycle trail you could ever cycle or even walk, even Julia Bradbury wrote and covered the Trail on TV for her railway series, which i have to mention i was fortunately blessed with meeting Julia at Honister in the Lake District, which i have to say she is so enthusiastic on walks and very frendly.   

A really hot sunday and to hot for hill walking so we had another go at cycling the Mawddach Trail, which is 15km of winding along the disused Ruabon to Barmouth railway. we made it the time a bit different and headed to Fairborne and had great fun catching the ferry from Fairborne to Barmouth then back over the Mawddach estuary over the wooden railway bridge, which we saw the most biggest jelly fish swimming under the bridge and these were the size of i would say a wheelie bin.
We did two tea stops which were at the Penmeanpool. both ways which was a relaxing stop of point and away from the crowds of  Barmouth.
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I would recommend Julia Bradburys book railway walks which covers the Mawddach Trail.

   

​A spot of luck having the afternoon of work which i am going to have some productive walking time.
Back in late January this year i went summit bagging to bag Black Mixen at 650m and then onto Great Rhos at 660m summit and the highest summit in the Radnor Forest Dome , which i bagged Black Mixen in some very poor weather conditions i sensibly aborted Great Rhos 1km from the summit due to poor weather and almost nil visibility, which even then i covered 20 miles.
So at last i bagged the summit of Rhos Fawr or translated meaning Great Moor of which its remote summit sits on a huge peat plateau.
I started this walk from the fishpools car-park near the village of Bleddfa on the A488, which from the carpark is a number of walking trails.
There is a small tower not far from the car park which at a glance looks unimportant but in reality it played a big part in the construction of the Elan valley aqueduct as its true role was used as a sighting tower for engineers to line the tunnel up with which was long before GPS mapping and lasers in civil engineering projects.
Most of the walk was through forest trails and the last part was on the open Plateau of Rhos Fawr which commends some fantastic views,including the Brecon Beacons and the Shropshire hills.

Just a word of caution if walking on the Radnor Forest, between Black Mixen and Rhos the is a deep valley, it is strictly out of bounds as home to a British Army firing range and a shoot club. when i was there the red flag was up but i would advice keep well away and vigilant of not straying onto the ranges.
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Some photography today walking around the back streets of Shrewsbury in Shropshire,
a little bit of fun with camera, I have used my favorite lens which is my trusty and reliable 35mm lens due 35mm photography get you moving the angles and stops some laziness of leaving a zoom lens to to the work, excellent quality of the photography as well avoiding some of the dreaded tilt and shift affect with  Architectural  photography,ISO set to 200. I just kept it nice and simple   

This is really part to a blog which the first part being the photography from the train at Llynclys heritage center, You probably noticed in the photos the the weather was not to brilliant, well the weather improved and we went down the road  2 mile down to Llanymynech to the Heritage center there to start a walk upto  Llanymynech Rocks and hill and following a short section of Offas Dyke path around the hill and then following the dried section of the Montgomery Canal back to Llanymynech which the canal is much better restored,
You probably notice  the first images  appear as in a mine, they are really inside the  Hoffmann lime kiln which Llanymynech Rocks are all part of a huge Lime stone workings.
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Just a nice effective piece of Photography of some ivy on this old building, Taken in HDR and added switched to black and white, i have made the ivy on the left the main focal point with as it has light reflecting of the leaves.
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A little bit of railway photography including a ride on this wonderful old 1957 class 101 diesel train,which i was kindly let into the cab of the train for a few cab shots.
The Llynclys Heritage has a short section on track running for mile  which you can have a nostalgic ride on this train and get some photography in, there is number of old rolling stock which makes some good photography subjects.