A fine weekend at the LMC bunkhouse – where, despite wind and heavy showers on the Sunday, we drove up to Cwm Ystradllyn. After a leisurely coffee at the lovely farmhouse café (one of Rogers favourite places!) we walked down the old ‘streets’ through the ruined mine workers cottages and then along the old tramway to the main quarry which is very impressive. We then had to stop at the café again on our return for a cream tea before driving down to the old slate mill that processed the slate from 2 quarries. The whole enterprise unfortunately never made a profit so was closed down but left an incredible legacy which now has UNESCO status.
We drove down the amazing little road to Prenteg complete with grass and cows in the middle and some great hairpin bends…
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