Featured Touring Long Weekend To Wales

I have always been impressed with the quality of the travel logs that people post on the forum, but have been disappointed that up until now there hasn’t been an opportunity to do one of my own.

However, last weekend five of us packed our bags and went to Wales - a six hour run, of which half was on motorways (M4) until we crossed the bridge into Wales where we finished the journey taking in some of the amazing scenery whilst riding extremely motorcycle friendly roads.

Not having an innate ability for story telling and being intrinsically lazy, my story would be very short and typically ‘bloke-ish’ in that we’d get up, ride out, find somewhere serving breakfast and then continue on our ride to enjoy the scenery. I might include a humorous quip that the Hardley Ableson riders kept whinging over the Senas that their big lumbering tractors didn’t like the single track twisty backroads over the hills and valleys, and that the level of empathy that I (and another Triumph rider) had was absolutely zero.

Evenings concluded with a pub dinner and a beer or three.

Rince and repeat for each day.

I can’t even remember where we went as the Welsh language is completely incomprehensible to a dyslexic. If it helps, I think we went somewhere halfway up and by the coast - slightly worrying I don’t know precisely where we went on the basis I led all the rides (but got us back - eventually).

Instead of waffling on and on, here are a few photos I took along the way.

We really enjoyed the near empty roads and really nice people we met along the way. Must do it again soon.

 

Thank you all for your comments.

It’s amazing how many of you could pinpoint the location of the photos so precisely.

That’s really helpful as I don’t have a clue.

We had a fantastic time and are really keen to explore more of Wales.

To any of the Welsh natives that might frequent the forum. Please fight like hell to keep your country looking as it does. Don’t accept the ‘we must build’ brigade who are happy to ruin the natural wonder of your country.

Ours (in the south) has been ruined by stupid and greedy councils who seem to have forgotten what and who they serve.

 

I can’t comment what Wales (and that route) is like in the ‘season’ but can from experience state that we observed how quiet the roads were when we rode.

We joked that the serenity and beauty got a bit monotonous as we rode mile after mile enjoying the experience of perpetually finding something amazing around each corner, and that we were ultimately missing the ugly chaos of the South.

We were clearly not being serious. I would love to live there but would not wish I inflict my grumpy persona on such nice people.

 

We did get lost once and went 10 miles in the wrong direction along a terrifically scenic route. Thankfully the views were as impressive in each direction that no one cared that I’d got it wrong.