Day 3

The night had been full of strange noises which we found out had been sheep grunts! In fact it had been cold unlike the night before, I only settled down to a deep sleep around 4.00am. and slept right through till 9.00am. the sun warmed up the tents so I got up, Nick had a bit of a lay in but it wasn't long before we were drinking coffee and we were on the main road to Builth Wells by 11.00am. In Buith we had cooked breakfast and then cycled along a quiet road that mirrors the main A470 on the other side of the river Wye. Motorbikes screamed out on the main road but all was peaceful on our side, we soon hit the main road for Talgarth, here again we cycled on another 'mirror' road that quietly took us over the mountain to Crickhowell. It was Monday Bank Holiday and the traffic had reached fever pitch, people were milling around Crickhowell, why I do not know, as all the shops were closed. We then cycled to Gilwern and to avoid the traffic, we cycled up the steep lane to Pwll du, here we were greeted with a show of purple heather not unlike the ones in mid Wales. It was a quick sprint from Blaenavon in the evening Sun to Croesyceiliog to arrive at 7.00pm....60 miles. We were sure that this had been the best tour we had been on, we covered the most ground (nearly 200miles) and had the best scenery and were now planning our next tour which we hoped would take us into North Wales perhaps ?