Wales: Driving through Brecon Beacons to Hay-on-Wye.

Our drive back was one of the most picturesque ones. We took the smaller roads enjoying the beauty of Brecon Beacons National Park. 

This area is mountainous for Wales standards, but it's mostly beautiful rolling hills and sheep pastures. 

Even at its highest point (Pen-y-Fan), you are only at 886 m elevation-that's about 2900 ft.

It's green and beautiful. But windy. 

Can't beat the views at our rest stop.

Robert definitely has hair advantage here.

We followed these beautiful roads all the way to the border of Wales and England. 

Some sheep tried to follow us too. In this area, they are pros at crossing busy highways.

Good bye, Wales!

Our day was not over yet. We drove to a cute town of Hay-on-Wye right on the border with England. 

It just so happened that a huge world-famous Hay Festival was in full swing here. Basically, writers, poets, actors, scientists, musicians and philosophers come to Hay-on-Wye to talk, present different ideas, eat and just hang out. We joined the festival for lunch. 

There were many booths set up and different events going on. Some of the events were free others required tickets. We basically just came to the festival to EAT!:) Mostly because we missed Jude Law who had performed at the festival the night before.

Waiting and waiting for our food...and Mark got a hold of the camera.

 We walked a couple of miles into town. This town is obviously famous for books, so we stopped by several book shops that sold old and new books. Kids got to choose a couple and then we wondered around the streets to find ice cream made of goat milk and more antique shops.

One of our favorite signs ever! So funny:)

It was late afternoon when we left Hay-on-Wye. There was still a lot to see but we had to get home. 

We drove to a random town, Bromsgrove, just past Worcester (WUUS-tər) where I knew we could find a good Thai restaurant for dinner thanks to Trip Advisor. Meakong Thai was its name. And it was indeed really good, so everyone was happy, as we love Thai food. 

Good news is that this was not the last time we are going to be in Wales! Robert's marathon is coming  up in October, in Snowdonia, so we'll be back then for more beautiful scenery. 

We love Wales!

Lyana