WWT Llanelli and Botanical Gardens Wales

The first of my holidays this year took me over to The Gower in Wales

My first stop as I'm a member of WWT and want to visit as many sites as I can was Llanelli.  Very easy to get to and a good size reserve. 

I've no idea how long this bird took to make, but it was very impressive 

There is a small area that you can look down the estuary over towards The Gower. 

Got to love the inquisitive look. 

Super cute chicks. 

This Goose was not happy with me! 

The next day I travelled to one of my favourite gardens The Botanical Gardens of Wales where I bought an annual membership last year. 

So I can visit when I want along with other Botanical gardens and Arboretums around England and Wales. 

There are so many area's to walk around I can happily spend all day here especially as it is 568 acres of grounds! 

I indoor glass dom is just amazing. 

The roof reflects the clouds perfectly. 

As I visit in the week day it was blissfully quiet like having the grounds to myself. 

The fallen tree makes such a good sculpture. 

I treated myself to these to lovely crystals bracelets as I just love the colours. 

Last camping trip of the year

I am very blessed in many ways.  

One of those is that my son now has a roof top tent, so sometimes I get to enjoy his company whilst we go camping in our respective vehicles.

So for my last trip out in the van for the year we headed to Brecon to the first campsite I went to as a solo camper.

I knew it would be perfect not too big and the facilities are first rate, this is the site if you'd like to take a look Bryndu Camping.

 

We were lucky as there were barely anyone else staying so we got to pick where we wanted to park.

After a good night's sleep we headed off to Botanic Garden Wales.  But we did stop off briefly at Llandovery. 

 

 

We then arrived at the gardens.   I had been previously a couple of years before twice in one week and still hadn't managed to see everything, but knew I would loved it third time round. 

So I decided to invest and buy a year's membership as I will be visiting again next year. 

The Annual membership is really worth it as I can also visit Westonbirt Arboretum, Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford Gardens all in the price. 

 

I took some pictures for you to see some of the gardens.

 

 

 

 

The tropical house was amazing with the Bananas growing. 

 

 

I love walking around the grounds too and it was so lovely to see the autumnal leaves against the water. 

There is a big sculpture that from one direction it looks like a seat and another it looks like an apple. 

It was a long day so it was nice to settle in and snuggle down with the fairy lights in the van. 

The next day we headed to Hay on Wye, famous for once a year having a Literature Festival spread over 11 days and attracts over 100,000 people.

The town is so refreshing, not only is it surrounded by beatifult coutryside, but it has so many small indepentant shops.  

Along with knitting and van life I do also enjoy reading so to walk around the incredible amount of bookshops of which there are over twenty was amazing.

 

For the final part of the trip we stopped off for an hour at Weir Garden which I wrote about here
Again it was a short trip and we did not get to see everything, but it was a garden's will definately visit again and the drive home was very pretty too.

 

 

I thought I would finish the blog with this great plague I saw.

 

Wales day 2

Today was a trip to the Botanical Gardens of Wales.

Feast your eyes on a blog full of colour and flowers. 

All images have been take on this and all my blog posts on my Huawei p30 phone. 

I hope you enjoyed the images.