My Weekend in South Wales - Lots of Pics

[tim0854]

So decided to get away for a few days, and after going to North Wales last year in the 5 and having a great time driving round the Evo Triangle and Llanberis Pass and other roads, I thought i'd try the South of Wales to see what the roads were like there

Started my weekend with a drive over the Rhigos Mountain road -



Stopped at the top to check out the great views and have an ice cream





Later in the evening, around 8pm, went over to the Black Mountain Pass and was hardly anyone there so had the road to myself and didnt get held up by any other drivers.

Had a great blast down the road and then reached Llangadog and turned around and drove it all again going up the hill stopping to take a few photos this time.



The obligatory hairpin shots lol







Decided to drive to Elan Valley as well and had a great day driving round, the mountain roads were awesome and some stunning scenery too.

Not sure what the road was, think it was the A470, but was great and went nearly all the way to the Elan Valley.



A few from the Valley and the mountain roads
















Had an awesome 3 days and was over way too quickly, cant wait to go back soon


Full set of pics here for anyone interested http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim0854/sets/72157629...

[Trefy5]

Glad you had a good time
Around mid as well as south Wales
5s suit the roads around here

[tim0854]

Trefy5 said:

Glad you had a good time
Around mid as well as south Wales
5s suit the roads around here

Yeah had a great time, was definately worth the drive to Élan Valley.

Jealous don't have roads like this in the south

[Red111]

tim0854 said:

Yeah had a great time, was definately worth the drive to Élan Valley.

Jealous don't have roads like this in the south

Great run and pictures - similar to mine and op's on other thread.

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Red111 on Wednesday 30th May 13:36

[mig25_foxbat2003]

Lovely pics and a lovely car. Going to have to get my arse out there for a good drive, I reckon.

[A4069]

good choice! that's the B4520 which runs from Brecon to Builth Wells. you probably rejoined the A470 in Builth which then took you to Elan/Rhaeadr.

tim0854 said:

Not sure what the road was, think it was the A470, but was great and went nearly all the way to the Elan Valley.

[Red111]

A4069 said:

good choice! that's the B4520 which runs from Brecon to Builth Wells. you probably rejoined the A470 in Builth which then took you to Elan/Rhaeadr.

tim0854 said:

Not sure what the road was, think it was the A470, but was great and went nearly all the way to the Elan Valley.

Yes and the upper chappel army ranges road would have been good also - B4519

[tim0854]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

Lovely pics and a lovely car. Going to have to get my arse out there for a good drive, I reckon.

Thanks, you should definately go if you can

[tim0854]

A4069 said:

good choice! that's the B4520 which runs from Brecon to Builth Wells. you probably rejoined the A470 in Builth which then took you to Elan/Rhaeadr.

Cheers for letting me know what road it is, be sure to go that way again whenever im back in South Wales

[Pugland53]

Some lovely photos there, nice to see you had some great weather too. These are my local 'hooning' roads :-)

[tim0854]

Pugland53 said:

Some lovely photos there, nice to see you had some great weather too. These are my local 'hooning' roads :-)

Thanks, some awesome roads round there your lucky to have them near you havnt got anywhere near as good roads in the south of England

[lazyitus]

Great pics, Tim. Look like fun roads in a fun car. Nice work.

[tim0854]

lazyitus said:

Great pics, Tim. Look like fun roads in a fun car. Nice work.

Thanks

[lupy]

Hi Tim, I recognise the majority of those shots from my visit a few weeks back, your pics have brought back some great memories for me Glad you had an awesome time, car looks like a lot of fun, thanks for posting

[MagicalTrevor]

So, from the photos I've figured your route to be something like this??

I live in Bristol so a feasible day out

[House86]

MagicalTrevor said:

So, from the photos I've figured your route to be something like this??

I live in Bristol so a feasible day out

Nearly right, these were the best roads I drove in my trip including my trip to Elan valley https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Senghenydd+St...

[MagicalTrevor]

House86 said:

Nearly right, these were the best roads I drove in my trip including my trip to Elan valley https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Senghenydd+St...

Nice one, I'll give that a whirl

[Chris71]

That MX5 looks fantastic. Any significant mods?

[House86]

Chris71 said:

That MX5 looks fantastic. Any significant mods?

Thanks

Not loads of mods just fitted coilovers, filter, exhaust and de-cat and other major mod is the roll bar which improves it a lot.

Lots of small bits done also, build thread here with everything ive done to it http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...

[MagicalTrevor]

Spent the day following part of your route

211 Miles and it was great!

Route Taken

Video to follow