Sunday October 2nd

This morning we headed off to Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort, which was a reconstructed village of round houses, which was quite fun to explore!  A couple of them even had a little fire going inside.  It was quite peaceful, perhaps because it was Sunday, as we may have been the only people there this morning!

We then did a walk up to an Iron Age Hill Fort and some Bronze Age Barrows within the Preseli Hills.  It seemed quite a steep walk – and it was – but I was fairly happy with going up it so I took out my super sticks (my pair of hiking sticks - they are awesome!), and walked up to Foeldrygarn (sp?) which turned out to be a 113m ascent!  By the time we had finished up there, we found a place a little more sheltered from the wind, managed to find a place to sit where there was no sheep poop and had lunch there.

We then went to a dolmen-like stone called Pentre Ifan – I think this is a fairly well known one in this area, and it was quite a large one.  However, when we arrived there, we discovered a small group of people sitting around it.  At first we thought they were artists, but as we walked past them, we saw that their notebooks were full of writing with a few sketches so we came to the conclusion of creative writing.  Maybe.  I have no idea.  All I know is that it was pretty annoying because half of them were practically sitting on it, so we couldn’t really take a decent photo.  I know it was Sunday and I know these people have to go somewhere for their (I assume) creative writing exercises, but it was pretty annoying going to see something and all you can see are a load of people lounging about on it.  Just imagine if you went somewhere to admire some prehistoric monument, hoping to take just one good photo for your holiday snaps, and when you get there the atmosphere – and your photo - is lost by people “needing” to sit ON the thing….anyway, it was a bit of a challenge but we managed to take a reasonably good photo of it at a strategic angle...!

Next we had a walk around Dinas Head which was slightly more up and down than I expected it to be, and on the way up I did get into a bit of a strop and stormed off (in the right direction towards the top of course).  I think this was because I had already managed to do quite a big walk this morning and I thought this would be a nice relaxing potter around Dinas Head…..!

You see, when I get fed up of whatever walk I’m on and find out there is a huge up waiting around the corner for me, I get mad and – oddly – I practically run up it.  It’s a bit weird because I actually don’t want to go up it at all, but when I’m in that mood I end up thinking “well I’ve got to get up there anyway” and I do it REALLY quickly without a care in the World about what it’s going to do to my muscles or my breathing.  Once I was up there and on the way back I was fine, but it was just that little bit that I went a bit mad with…..and good grief, in the morning I certainly knew about it haha!!