A windy, cold, sunny, warm kind of day in Wales

Saturday was one of those days of great British early spring weather; drizzly rain, fog, gale force winds, glorious sunshine, a warm breeze. It had it all. But, as British as I am the weather was not the main event and that is not what I’m going to write about today.

Pen y fan. The tallest point in south Britain and the pinnacle of the Brecon Beacons. During the four years I lived in Cardiff I never made the short journey to take on Pen y Fan, but recently it feels as though half of my friends still in Wales have climbed it. And so I made the plan to climb it, all 886m of it.

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