This morning we are up bright and early to go logging. Sustainable heat provided by burning logs in our woodburners is not just ecologically sound, everyone loves the fires. There is something really homely about sitting by a log fire in the evening and other forms or heating just don't cut it. The majority of our heating systems are underfloor and they provide a good all over background heat. Bathrooms here at the Bwlch Tre Banau Estate are always warm and cosy with heated towel rails and guests have a liberal supply of white fluffy towels. http://www.walesholidaycottages.com/

Last evening at the fireside I was researching Florida for a forthcoming trip and came across a really interesting map site called www.luddist.com Loads of facts and figures and historical information of Florida.

Anyway, must run, the sun is streaming through the window and it is just too good to stay indoors. I'm off out side to feed the chickens, check the geese and take Spot and Stripe over the top of the Banc. The view today is going to be spectacular, 360 degree panoramic views over the Brecon Beacons to the south and the southern tip of the mid Wales mountains visible in the far distance to the north.
Wikipedia says "The Cambrian Mountains are a series of mountain ranges in Wales, reaching from, and including, the South Wales mountains of the Brecon Beacons, north Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, to Snowdonia in North Wales.

Originally the term "Cambrian Mountains" was applied in a general sense to most of upland Wales. Since the 1950s, its application has become increasingly (and arguably illogically) localised to the geographically homogeneous Mid Wales uplands known in the Welsh language as the Elerydd (which extend from Pumlumon to Mynydd Mallaen).

This barren and sparsely populated wilderness is often referred to affectionately as the Desert of Wales.

The highest point of the range is Pumlumon. The area includes the source of the River Severn and River Wye, and has been proposed as a National Park. It is the type of locality of the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era (542-488Ma).

Cefn Croes, the site of a controversial wind farm project, is in the Cambrian Mountains, just south of the A44 road between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.[1], [2],[3]

The Cambrian Mountains also holds the Elan Valley Reservoirs and Llyn Brianne reservoir, Which hold water for the English West Midlands, and South Wales respectively. It also holds Clywedog reservoir and Nant y Moch Reservoir." So now you know everything there is to know about the Cambrian Mountains. Better jump on the internet and make a reservation at the Bwlch Tre Banau Estate and experience some of it first hand!