2 day road trip Wales - any must see roads?

[DamnKraut]

Greetings fellow PH'ers,

I'll be going from Manchester to Bristol for a mate's wedding and have 2 days to spend going through Wales with one overnight stay close to Aberystwyth.

Day 1 (THU) will start at 7.30am at Manchester Airport flying in from the continent and grabbing a rental car and would end around 7 or 8ish pm at Aberystwyth.

Day 2 (FRI) would lead me from my overnight stay down to Bristol where I would need to be sometime in the evening.

Day 3 is then the wedding and Day 4 gives me some time to go down towards Devon and Cornwall where I haven't been for almost 20yrs, so will be great to see that place again.

Any suggestions which roads I should go explore in 1 day Northern and 1 day Southern Wales, Northern meaning here any place above the red line in the map below:



Many thanks in advance,

[Trefy5]

Very loosely - - head for Bala after Chester then on to Dolgellau - Corris - Machynlleth - Aber.

Aber to Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach) - Cwm Ystwyth - Elan Valley (check out dams if you wish) - Rhayader - Newbridge on Wye (Right) - Beulah - (left) Garth - (right) over the Epynt - Upper Chapel - Lower Chapel -Brecon - Abergavenny - Raglan - Usk - Chepstow - Bristol

Lots of other places to go via, esp in North Wales but that's a notion or two to be going with

[Tickle]

B4391 South of Bala and the section north to Ffestiniog.

[Evanivitch]

I'd hit Brecon town to Merthyr to Hirwaun to Treorchy to Bridgend and M4 to Bristol.

There's a great mountain road near Treorchy, roads a bit rough but Evo have been known to test around there. Mind the cattle grids and sheep.

[Red Devil]

Trefy5 said:

Very loosely - - head for Bala after Chester then on to Dolgellau

Use the bit below.

Tickle said:

B4391 South of Bala and the section north to Ffestiniog.

Followed by the A470. Much more fun than the direct route via the A494.

Trefy5 said:

Aber to Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach) - Cwm Ystwyth - Elan Valley (check out dams if you wish) - Rhayader - Newbridge on Wye (Right) - Beulah - (left) Garth - (right) over the Epynt - Upper Chapel - Lower Chapel -Brecon - Abergavenny - Raglan - Usk - Chepstow - Bristol

As an alternative to the B4519/B4520 via Upper Chapel try this - https://goo.gl/maps/dWBNrVud9tC2
The military road from Tirabad to LLywel is one of the finest bit of tarmac in the whole of Wales.

[DamnKraut]

Thanks for the feedback so far

I will go through the above one of the next evenings and come up with a route I will post here. Given I have pretty much 12 hrs to get from Manchester to Aber for my first overnight stay I don't mind taking as many diversions from the straight route as possible to see as much as I can.

Same applies for the second day where I have the full day to get from Aber to Bristol where I need to be at the wedding at noon on day 3.

Rental car's a 1 series BMW btw. Nothing fancy but looking at the prices for rental cars that are non FIestaFocusCorsaAstra brought me to the verge of my first stroke

Maybe a Focus would even be a better drive but couldn't book that one for certain and don't want to risk ending up in an Astra or even worse a Citroen C4 or sth like that

[Gaffaa]

Surprised you even managed to get a BMW. With a mug looking face like yours.

[anonymous-user]

Gaffaa said:

Surprised you even managed to get a BMW. With a mug looking face like yours.

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