Brecon, Wales
It is 2 weeks today (yikes, I had better get prepared) until we leave for our next overseas adventure. We leave on the 19th August and spend a couple of days in Helsinki before flying to Rovaneimi where we join up with a bus tour of Finland, Norway and Lapland. We leave the tour in Stockholm and spend a couple of days here before flying to Heathrow where we will pick up a car and spend the next 7 weeks driving around the United Kingdom. After 3 days in Singapore on the way home, we will have been away just over 10 weeks.
Brecon is a traditional Mid Wales market town nestling in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons National Park in the County of Powys. This magical spot at the confluence of two rivers, the Usk and the Honddu has always been a popular destination offering visitors spectacular scenery and leisure activities.
It is thought that several earlier churches will have existed on the ancient site where Brecon Cathedral now stands. In 1093 after capturing the Welsh kingdom of Brecheiniog, the Norman lord of the Marches Bernard de Neufmarche gave orders for a priory to be built on the site. The priory was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist and in 1106, the first prior was a monk named Walter. After the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII, the priory became a parish church and much later in the 1920s the church became designated a cathedral.
One of the most heroic battles of all time, the battle of Rourke's Drift [1879] is commemorated in the South Wales Borderers Museum at Brecon Barracks. At Rourke's Drift 140 soldiers of the regiment faced more than 4,000 Zulu warriors.
I you have never watched the movie Zulu with Michael Caine, I can thoroughly recommend it.
Brecon, Wales
It is 2 weeks today (yikes, I had better get prepared) until we leave for our next overseas adventure. We leave on the 19th August and spend a couple of days in Helsinki before flying to Rovaneimi where we join up with a bus tour of Finland, Norway and Lapland. We leave the tour in Stockholm and spend a couple of days here before flying to Heathrow where we will pick up a car and spend the next 7 weeks driving around the United Kingdom. After 3 days in Singapore on the way home, we will have been away just over 10 weeks.
Brecon is a traditional Mid Wales market town nestling in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons National Park in the County of Powys. This magical spot at the confluence of two rivers, the Usk and the Honddu has always been a popular destination offering visitors spectacular scenery and leisure activities.
It is thought that several earlier churches will have existed on the ancient site where Brecon Cathedral now stands. In 1093 after capturing the Welsh kingdom of Brecheiniog, the Norman lord of the Marches Bernard de Neufmarche gave orders for a priory to be built on the site. The priory was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist and in 1106, the first prior was a monk named Walter. After the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII, the priory became a parish church and much later in the 1920s the church became designated a cathedral.
One of the most heroic battles of all time, the battle of Rourke's Drift [1879] is commemorated in the South Wales Borderers Museum at Brecon Barracks. At Rourke's Drift 140 soldiers of the regiment faced more than 4,000 Zulu warriors.
I you have never watched the movie Zulu with Michael Caine, I can thoroughly recommend it.