If we could get the jobs we wanted Dan and I would move to Wales in a heart beat. You can't beat the terrain, the opportunities for adventure, the wilderness, solitude and beauty, even in the wind and rain. We popped back to my childhood home so that I could ride in the mountains and so we could begin our training for multiday hiking/backpacking.
Unfortunately the weather wasn't on my side for riding. I don't mind riding in winds up to 20mph but over that and it starts to get a bit extreme, add sideways rain and unstable trees from previous storms and it gets dangerous in the forests. So we only managed a short hack but it was still good for the soul.
Luckily the weather improved for our 32km overnight hike to a bothy up in the Cambrian mountains. We're training for a 100mile hike in Scotland towards the end of the year and a two week hike in Nepal next year. It was so nice to see the mountains I grew up with from a different view point and there's something that's just so good for the brain and heart about going back to basics and being out in the relative wilderness. I'd love to do an overnight ride/camp like this with Estrid so I might start researching bothy's with corrals? Do they exist?