Wales, April 2025

 After doing a nightshift Thursday night / Friday morning, managed to grab about 3 hours sleep, then got the bike ready to go, and met up with Neil and Clive Friday morning at 9a.m., and we set off to the Cotswolds Airfield to have a lookm at an aircraft scrapyard.

view of some more scrapped aircraft in the distance

We stopped in the cafe, AV8, clever name, which was nice, then headed into Wales, had a brief stop at  the Usk museum Cafe for cakes, then off to our pub lodgings for the night, The Lamb and Flag,

 Abergavenney, and ended the day with a few beers. Me and Neil had the full english breakfast (English chain of pubs or it would have been full Welsh)  Next morning, , Clive opted for a continental breakfast, he ordered porridge with golden syrup and a croissant, what he got was .....

a thing that looked very dissapointing, some hot water, and a plain croissant with no butter.

 

   We then set off to find the "Gospel Pass" North of Abergavenny, it starts off as a narrow road in a rough state, with lots of potholes, gravel and mud on the road, Clive was worried that we would be dissapointed ..

But after a few miles it opened up into a very picturesque road

Then after zig zagging around North Wales, we stopped at a reservoir

Then we eventually ended up at Premier Inn, Porthmadog for the evening, and a few more beers

Next morning, Llanberis Pass was the first call

then a ride into Caernarfon for a snack

Then it was back to the "Lamb and Flag", Abergavenney for our final evening. Next morning, the bikes had frost on them, so it was off to McDonalds for a double sausage and egg mc muffin until the roads warmed up a bit, then we got a bit split up due to road closured on the A40, but managed to meet up again near Clarkson's pub. Then it was time to head for home, Nice relaxing trip, thanks to Wing Commander Richardson for organising, and Neil for general Neilishness.

    Charlie