Location
Jul 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Accommodation
We’re surrounded by green fields on all sides and hopefully you’ll agree that our accommodation provides a peaceful retreat from modern life. Snowdon and her gang are just an hour to the north of us and a natural draw for a lot of our guests. We’d argue however that the mountains just behind the farmhouse offer a more undiscovered alternative. Mountains like the Rhinogs, Llethr and Diffwys are steeped in ancient history and every bit as rugged and beautiful as they’re more famous cousins.
You could of course just take a little time to relax in tranquil surroundings. The house overlooks the beautiful Cambrian coastline, so sit by the stream with a book, drink a glass of wine and listen to the birds. And following, what can often be stunning sunsets, look out across the sea to the distant flash of Bardsey lighthouse at the tip of the Llyn Peninsula. (Unless it’s raining of course!)
There are plenty of things to do in the area. Restaurants, theatres, mines, castles, narrow gauge railways, Port Meirion the famous Italian Village, technology centre, craft centres, gardens and bird sanctuaries all within easy reach. For the energetic there’s pony trekking at Fairbourne, golf on the Royal St Davids 18hole links course, all terrain biking at the award winning Coed Y Brenin centre and sea and fresh water fishing. All the alternative sports are also becoming more and more popular, white water rafting on the famous Tryweryn river, sea kayaking, kite surfing and gorge walking. All a bit nuts if you ask me. There is, of course, a bus service in the area which will take you to most places, and a train services, that must run on one of the prettiest tracks in the country. However, unless you are a very keen walker staying at Byrdir means that a car is essential.
Click for Map & Directions
It is nice to find a “Real Welsh” Bed and Breakfast venue, as a former resident of Powys for 6 years and a Welsh Borderer for 33 years before that, I have enjoyed the splendours of Gwynedd/Powys countryside, having had a small holding tenancy on an upland cattle/sheep farm near Llanbymair, where we kept ducks and geese in the “2001 foot and mouth outbreak”, we then moved to the Dyfi Valley area.
It was then I discovered the delights of the area that your property resides in, being a frequent visitor to Morfa Dyffyrn beach, Barmouth, Aberdyfi, Llanfair, Trawsfyndd, Dolgellau (where we used to walk the Mawddach cycle trail), precipse walk and coastal upland walks around the rhinogs.
As a qualified Tourism Guide, I could not recommend highly enough the area for a relaxing visit or holiday…Pity I moved to the England/ Scottish Borders at Carlisle (where I have the Northumberland/ Westmorland moors-North Pennines-Solway Estuary and Lake District for company).I miss living the rural way of welsh life, I shall return one day to live the dream…
Some may say I have it all living where I am now, but truthfully I miss the unique natural beauty and community spirit of Mid / West Cymru. I shall have to visit yourselves for a refresher course in Cymraeg life, and get up to speed on the welsh language once again..One consolation, there is plenty of sheep up here in Cumbria! I will arrange to visit you soon.(please send me details).
What can I say? The hospitality you provide, the warmth of your welcome, not to mantion the wonderful breakfasts in a truly Welsh atmosphere, combined to make my all-too-short a visit back to the “Hen Wlad” a very memorable occasion. Having left Dyffryn over 55 years to settle in Australia ago it was great to see that some things haven’t changed. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay the highlight of which was undoubtedly the reunion with a dozen or so classmates of 1949. Thank you for your efforts in making it happen. I trust it won’t be so long to my next visit. Diolch o galon i chi’ch dau.