Cwm Rhondda

I've been away for the weekend in the South Wales Valleys.
As we travelled on the Saturday morning, the bus ticket was free (travel on the T14 within Wales is free every Saturday).
We went down to Pontypridd, where my Young Man's friend met us and took us out to his place in Cwm Rhondda. It was pretty damp and drizzly on Saturday morning, but later the sun came out, and the trees growing up the valley sides were decked out in autumnal colours, with moorland just visible beyond them, and the Rhondda river itself running close to the road. It's a very beautiful place to live these days, with the occasional reminder that this was once an area of heavy industrial activity.
Our friend offered to drive us back to Hay, and the views were glorious going over the hills. Up at Storey Arms, there were cars parked all along the sides of the roads, and lots of people heading up across the moors on the paths.
It was lovely to get out of Hay for a little while and see parts of South Wales that I've never been to before.