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Luxury travel blog » Places » Europe » Wales » Rope walking, rock climbing and sheep

Rope walking, rock climbing and sheep

March 3, 2010 by Carol Perehudoff 5 Comments

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Wales sheep

My first day in Wales and I am bruised, sore and ready for wine with dinner. Brecon Beacons National Park is a scenic (duh, what park isn’t?) inland park with a lot of sheep.

Wales-Rope-Walk

Rope walking

But my fun was all indoors today, at the Llangorse Multi Activity Centre with 5,000 square feet of climbing and bouldering and caving. They imported tons of limestone in so that you’re climbing on real rocks, and when they didn’t get permission to build high enough, they dug deep, so you’re sort of climbing out of a really deep pit. That’s after you’ve gone across the pit on ropes in various scary manners.

I suck at many of these activities. The worst was some fake wall where you are somehow supposed to fly up magically and grab hold of the top of the wall. Not.

Surpristingly, I and the smallest girl, a woman from Vancouver, who we will call Cinderella because her climbing shoes fit on the first try, while mine, were – you guessed it -too small. Just call me ugly stepsister. But the thing is, she and I climbed the very highest hardest wall of all. Hurrah for the little people (especially the little people with long, though narrow, feet.)

Look at Cindarella go!

Now I’m in a posh country hotel in the library and a group of Americans and Brits sitting around the fireplace are talking about Euthanasia. Apparently it’s legal in Thailand and Switzerland. But I don’t think my group will need any assistance that way. Either this trip will put us in the peak of health or well, yah know … we won’t require assistance.

 

 

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About Carol Perehudoff

A former freelance travel columnist for the Toronto Star, Carol has won more than 20 writing and blogging awards and honours. A spa and luxury travel expert, she's written for top travel publications around the globe.

Comments

  1. wanderingcarol says

    March 28, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Cindarella’s pretty good in the water, too. Better than I was, that’s for sure.

  2. Lori Henry says

    March 26, 2010 at 11:56 am

    Wow, that Cinderella sure can climb!

  3. Molly Minton says

    March 13, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    NIECE MOLLY APPROVES!!!! Wish I could have been there. Sounds likes you were having fun.
    p.s. Aren’t sheep the most adorable creatures?

  4. Cathy Fowler says

    March 9, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    I would like to borrow the sheep photograph for a painting.If your mother sees the rock climbing photographs or the one of you descending down into the dark she won’t sleep at night. Your niece Molly would approve . It looks so nice there I could see Robin moving back to the home of her ancestors.

  5. amy says

    March 6, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    I love reading your blog because it’s the only way I know exactly where you are. See you tomorrow!

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