Warm.

Hazy and warm today. Being a Bank Holiday weekend and the last weekend of the school summer holidays Borth was packed. Cars parked in every corner and almost continous lines of people walking along the coast path.

While Peter went off rowing I headed inland to meet up with the walking group for a great walk up in the hills. We met up in the same village as last time but then combined in two cars to travel a few miles further along tracks back into the wilder countryside. 

It was peacefully deserted, we saw one resident outside a cottage but not a single other person out on the hills.

We followed the old tracks from one deserted and often ruined farmhouse to another.

Eventually we found ourselves at the ruins of an old lead mine where we stopped for lunch. 

I should have taken more photos, too busy chatting, but this is the slot where the waterwheel that powered the mine machinery used to be. Below are some of the walls of the old mine buildings.

Although some of the clouds above us looked a bit grey it stayed dry and warm for the whole walk.

Eventually we retraced our steps back to the ruined farm where the cars were parked and then drove back, through many gates, to Tal-Y-Bont.

I've tried to see exactly where we went on the map but unfortunately our route was half on one OS map and half on the other and OS maps unlike road maps don't overlap. I thought I might do better on Google maps but the area is too islolated and it doesn't name the abandoned farms or the lead mine.

The hollow base of this old tree was big enough for a supple adult to get inside but the person who went in last time declined to go in again.

By the time I got home there was only time to do my Duo Lingo before the usual evening routine.