Diana and Brian's Holidays: Gilwern

A leisurely start today as we didn’t have far to go so it was 10-20 when we set of following a cooked breakfast, needed to use the eggs and bacon up.
I have no idea why this group of young cattle decided to gather on this bridge.We met a couple of hire boats and a private on all in nice places as we made our way to LLanfoist where we stopped for a while for a look round. We passed

under the canal in the old tramway route to the far side of the canal, there are a couple of reproduction tub on a sort bit of rail but its quite overgrown. The old wharf is now holiday lets and the entrance to the tunnel from this side has been extended and built over, the old tram way running to the right of the picture cut unto what is now lawn and the driveway to the house

The old tunnel entrance is several feet inside the square entrance you can see above. Its all rather dark and damp down there, not from the canal above it leaking but streams coming down the mountain.

We then went for a walk round the village ending up down at the garden centre for ice creams, well the sun was well up by now and it was hot.
We pushed off again and I couldn’t resist a selfie in the windows of the wharf as we passed

Just around the bend from the wharf was this floating garden. Even the fenders had flowers in them.

We then stopped at Govilon and walked through the chapel yard and di a circular walk of the village before coming back to the boat and doing the final bit back the the hire base. We are moored right outside a pub again so we had a very pleasant evening sharing pizzas with the American couple who also returned to the hire base the same time as us.

Today’s Journey 8¼ miles in 7¼ hours including stops. This is the end of our Welsh Canalboat holiday and we have had some cracking weather and met some very friendly people. We leave the boat in the morning, but have decided to spend another day in Wales before driving home.

Today’s Journey8¼ miles with no locks in 7¼ hours including stops.