Vlog 34: Visiting the Begwyn hills and Hay-on-Wye in the campervan
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2019
- Back in February I went to lovely Wales once more and visited the Begwyn Hills, then popped over the border to Hay on Wye and ended up going up Llangattock escarpment. This video covers the first two of those and Llangattock is in Part 2 which you can see at • Vlog 35: Visiting Brec...
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Hate it when an oncoming car takes full advantage of your courtesy and makes no move to pull over a bit itself.
Blessed are the cheese makers, long may they whey...
Sorry, I couldn't help myself, I'm such a curd...
Just come over from your Cruising the Cut channel. My mother was born and bred in Hay. The family goes back generations (all resident in Hay cemetery). I've noticed a photo of my grandfather's old shop is used on the information board inside the Cheese Market. The shop was on the end of the Market building and was pulled down in the early 1950s. He set up shop across the road, in what is now an estate agent. The bell of the town clock holds a special memory for me. During the 1970s the hippies named Hay 'Way-on-High'.
While I do enjoy the van videos as well as the cruising videos I can not stop flinching as vehicles come hurtling past on the wrong side of the road. I guess if I make a trip to GB I will need a chauffeur and a blindfold.
Nah, keep your eyes open it'll be much more fun :-)
I can remember, retiring for the night, with a light drizzle falling onto the van, l was tucked up, safe, with my mifi, and fell asleep , the cold air actually allowed me to rest very deeply, and being all alone, you call all the shots.....Marvelous.
A late arrival from the narrow boat channel here. Very happy to see your enthusiasm with the change of venue. Your energy is motivating me to dust off the traveling gear.
Love the ideas of bookshops and cafes. These days its e bks not quite the same! Another great vlog.!
Your exciting journies in the camper van are on par with your narrow boat voyages. Again David, you have supplied a most wonderful interesting video. Thank you
A place with bookshops and coffee shops, sounds perfect!
Love the video, can't wait for Part 2!
LOVE BOOKSTORES! Keep 'em safe, Hay on Wye! Here in the States, bookstores are disappearing. :'(
That was lovely, thank you. I love Hay-on-Wye and your vlog brought back some lovely memories
Absolutely love Hay! Booths is wondrous, bluff awesome, the literature festival also brilliant , the dive over the bluff and onwards is well worth it if a bit narrow at times 😊
Agree, more van vids would be super .. for example you in the van at the end of this vid could have shown us how u spend time in there at night , rain sounds, cozy setup etc
I'm out on the narrowboat at present so no more van videos for a bit but there will be some over the summer, I hope.
Books❤, books❤ and more books❤! I could get lost for days! Fantastic!
I always enjoy the driving videos in picturesque areas, but when you went into the roadwork area I saw all of those traffic cones and thought about how, in North Carolina, we refer to them as our State flower. They bloom every summer.
We have orange cone season here in Michigan. Lol
Haha ours seem to bloom all year round!
It always seems to be raining in Wales. I'm sure it isn't really, but I once spent 15 days training with a Royal Artillery Regiment at Sennybridge and it rained every bloomin' day.
Beautiful place and beautiful video, but watching those roads is giving me terrifying flashbacks of the single lane - steep bank one side - sheer drop the other, kind.
Love the video, being from Canada it seems so strange seeing you drive up the “wrong” side of the road... my brain keeps telling me your going to hit something lol
Dave, Watching it again and again.. Fog, Sunshine, Roadwork.. never thought of roadwork as weather but now I will. Keep the chin up, keep making people smile.
It’s Beg-ins. Best place for great views. Hay resident and I couldn’t live anywhere else.
You should have a potter around Northern Powys, my home area. Lakes Vyrnwy and Clywedog are very nice. On the west coast the small towns of Aberdovey, Towyn, Barmouth and Harlech all have beautiful beaches that stretch for miles. Out of season visiting means plenty of free overnight parking in lay-bys .
I'll add them to the list!
Vandemonium If you ever fancy a couple of off season days in Chester, narrowboat or camper van, the Little Roodee car park is popular for overnight stays near the town centre for motor homes, not free though.
Been binge watching the narrowboat channel, now hooked on this channel - was researching narrowboat holidays and now I also want to visit Wales!
Wales is lovely, especially when the sun's shining!
Love the scenery and weather.
Beautiful village is Hay Town!
There is an app you can get for your smartphone where it will identify what mountains you are looking at. BTW your selection of background music as you meander around Wales has been outstanding. At least for the guitarist in me.
I really love your droll sense of humour David. I emigrated to Australia from Britain 47 years ago but I still miss that droll British sense of humour - as in putting on the screen the words rain, sun, roadworks!! I also knew as you were puffing up the hill that you would again say how unfit you are before you even said it!! Really enjoying seeing Wales thanks for showing it to us
I am nothing if not predictable!
Excellent content as ALWAYS!!! I must say an ENORMOUS thank you!! Your music overlay skills are nearly unmatched anywhere!! Its so nice when you don't have to turn down the volume every time someone puts music in their episodes!!
David these campervan videos are brilliant. I've played them all took me about 2 weeks and have subscribed. The "territorial " photographs and slightly sardonic descriptions are superb I've watched ( again on mass) Crusing the Cut 200 odd videos over a 3 week period and really prefer the Vandemonium videos as you climb mountains and hills. Visi0t towns and show where you've been. On Cruising Cut you arrive in say Braunston , Stokw Bourne or Oxford but have never seen it. You are so talented in filming and commentary as to be compulsive please take your camera and visit the places you go to. Graham.
Cheers - yes with the boat, the videos are all about the canals and the boats and I don't really do any exploring. With the campervan, the travelling is often just dull roads hence the end locations are what makes the video.
@@Vandemonium a canal crusing volg and scenic tours wow world beating David. Especially your style of presentation is magical. I could watch you reading the phone book and stop decrying yourself with the jobs you did on the van it looks wonderful. Congratulations!!!
@@Vandemonium It may be boring for you, but I've never seen roads like that living in the US. I really appreciate the road shots, because it's something entirely new for me.
The only think I could offer up to from here to you is M-39 Southfeld Freeway (Detroit). Speed limit is 88 Km, but everyone does about 144. It's move or die with almost no shoulder to pull off. Picture Mad Max on meth.
This is why I appreciate your calm Wale's road interludes.
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not my vid. this is M-39. the person slightly sped up the vid.
The UK roads look like a drivers paradise from here.
Thank you for the introduction to Wales; it looks lovely. And the traveling music was great, much like my beloved Bluegrass music.
G,day, I visited North Wales Decades ago. I fell in love with the beautiful countryside. It is on my Bucket List to visit Wales in the near future. I am enjoying watching your journey to this part of Wales
David, thank you for a visit to your part of the world. The scenery is absolutely stunning and the "quaint" descriptor for Hay-on-Wye is most appropriate. Your petrol prices are a little hard to swallow, $2.78/gal here in the Inland Pacific Northwest, which is high. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the rest of your trip. Thanks again and as always, be safe. Cheers!
Hard to swallow indeed, tell me about it!
I guess that’s the price we pay to live in paradise 😎
Nice intro. Being from Wisconsin I appreciate the dairy references.
I'm very fond of Wales. So much variety and many secret valleys, secluded places of beauty and surprises such as when I came across an albino Peacock strutting along a remote back lane. Some of my favourites are the hinterland South East of Aberystwyth, and around Dolgellau and Beddgelert. But much else to discover also ....
Beautiful driving footage takes me back to my last two holidays in the UK.👍
Gorgeous scenery! Glad you are enjoying the van!
Once again great viewing, and great music..............................'Onya mate!!!
My brother and I went through both Hay on Wye and Ross on Wye one year. I can't remember which one it was now, but Noele Gordon's house was there. The actress that famously was in the soap Crossroads. I remember many decades earlier, when I was only a young boy and Crossroads was very popular, that we had to go there with my gran, whilst on holiday in Gloucestershire, just because she lived there. No other reason and it was probably a 30 mile journey from where we stayed. My gran probably found it out from her Peoples Friend or Womans Own magazines. We didn't see her anywhere though. 😁
Noele Gordon buried in Ross.
All those bookshops--I could spend days there! Putting Hay on my "to visit" list. The lovely scenery along the way will be a nice bonus.
Nice camera work and editing in of the guitar duet background music, beautiful trip to lovely Hay-on-Wye.
Found this channel today. Asphalt not as soothing as canals. The landscape if magnificent. The van is very fast, not the slow rythem of the narrowboat. I will try to adjust. I love a country lane.
Welcome!
My normal route to work, greetings from ross on wye.
I always love learning about twinned towns and cities, sisters, its always fun seeing which places consider themselves sisters. I wouldn't have guessed a quaint British town and Timbuktu, that is fantastic! Twin cities, or sisters, are cities with a social agreement and relationship between both cities. Incidentally, my city, Windsor, Ontario, is the twin city of twelve different cities, including Coventry, England.
Splendid! Thanks!
Can't believe you have been up on The Begwns. I live about four minutes away from where you parked on the Begwns and that was my good lady coming home as you dropped down to Clyro in the mini. If I had known you were coming over you could have called in for A hot drink and something to eat as I work from home. Absolutely gutted to have missed you. I hope you enjoyed my home area it is a wonderful scenic inspirational place all year round
Ahhh how odd to have filmed her at that exact moment! I was only there very briefly but thank you for that thought :-)
@@Vandemonium I should have said we pronounce it The Beggins as in Oliver Twist
I so enjoy watching your vlog. It has a much gentler pace than what you usually see, you don't change the camera angle every second thus letting me see, and take in, what you see. I'd tip my hat if I was wearing one, but you get what I mean, don't you.
If you ever take your van to the northern parts of Europe (you won't be sailing aways after this Brexit mess), feel free to come and visit us in Hälsingland, free room and board at our house (built in the 18:th C, but then they tagged on bits here and there, so an architectural mess, but we like it).
Thank you, that's very kind indeed :-)
WOW you have 4 channels . And everyone is FANTASTIC . You must NEVER SLEEP .. :-):-):-):-)
Haha not much done on the other two of late but van and boat keep me busy enough!
Cheers Dave , Great vlog.
Lovely trip
Hay is really nice
Thanks for another interesting and enjoyable video. I really enjoyed it.
I could spend a lot of time in a bookish town like that.
Cheers
awesome video, just awesome
"Stay on the road
Keep clear of the moors.
Beware the moon, lads." 🐺🌑🐾
I Used to visit Hay quite a bit at one time. I had a girlfriend who came from the Hereford side of the town, During the book festival one year I had the surreal experience of having Alan Rickman stood behind me as we all gawped at Bill Clinton who was visiting and very much surrounded by security.
Surreal indeed!
RIP Professor Snape aka Alan Rickman
Well done sir! Good show, put a smile on our faces and for that we thank you!
Great vlog
One of my favorite towns in the UK. Thanks for showing it to us.
We simply love you Vanning David. Keep on Trucking. The Macs.
I hoist a GnT to you for great content. Such a contrast compared to narrowboating, faster speed and no stressing while navigating through tunnels 😂. The scenery is still stunning.
Oh, that was fun...I love your vlogs. Great cameras now. Thanks for taking us along. Can't wait for Part2
Thank you for another enjoyable Vlog. The countryside and the villages there are lovely.
What a picturesque little town. Cute.
Thank you for showing Hay. My friend always blogs about it every time he goes. Now the little town makes sense. It is lovely and all those BOOKS! Yes, I'm a bookaholic.
And I agree, the Black Hills do look very Tolkien. Lovely area. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Another excellent video, also it seems to be the best time for a visit, very little activity. Thanks David, enjoy your day.
What an interesting town/village!
Great vlog David so scenic. Oh and nothing gives joy like a good book store or two. Thanks
LOVELY video! I’ve been rewatching some of the older narrowboat vlogs, and this is quite a change in pace. I love the change in pace though, and you just make wonderful videos!
Well a nice one again you on your trips and I do love this keep it up nigel
Great vlog, really enjoyed the traveling music.
Nicely done 👍 enjoyed it Best Regards 👍😀🐾🍺
bioutifull,and the music is amazing.
great vid .. I love a good bookshop!
Great job. Love the trips. There super. Richard M. AZ, USA
Nice one David another excellent vlog. Great combination sometimes canal vlog sometimes van vlog yes both channels compliment each other very nicely. Cheers Jo
Glad I live in the states when it comes to gassing up my cars! Very interesting
Not been to Hay since i was a child David,still looks the same.
The accompanying music is very catchy.
Looking forward to seeing your tour of the western end of the Brecon Beacons. We'll be back in Wales in May, but will be in the North this time, so we won't get back to our favorite spots in the South. We were actually at Painscastle in September. Thanks again for the videos
I tried reading that parking sign, it took me almost 1 hour and then I had to move on or I would get a ticket! :D
Bravo on the "road" cam. It's a nice addition that should enhance your motoring videos several fold. Awaiting Part II.
Yeah the delkin mount are great. I got their fat gecko and used it on my car videos. It has been on the Mustang, Camaro SS, Corvette Stingray and the Tesla at home. I got extensions and the vice like grip. The extensions are all metal. Can carry quite an heavy camera.
Yes, it's never let me down. Worth the money.
Superb
Hahaha! 6:17 And on que, the answer to my wonderings. Gorgeous countrysides you're privy to.
Hay-on-wye; just a few miles from the home of my ancestors, Erwood. I haven't had the chance to get to the UK yet to visit ( I live in Michigan, USA) , but thank you for this glimpse into the Welsh countryside.
Jolly good video ! At 4:47 approx center screen I notice what appears to be an entrance to either a wood trolls lair or an elfen den can't quite make it out.. Great video
If you're not doing it already, you could upload the road footage to Mapillary which will also help the OpenStreetMap community. ;)
Never heard of it!
Very interesting with a little tour of Hay on Wye..your window screen camera a great idea I'd forgotten how very narrow the side roads can be in Wales...quieter in winter thank goodness
24 quid for a front seat ride - well worth it! Melb.
Great vlog, have heard of Hay on Wye and would like to be there doing the literature festival sometime.
Another brilliant vlog. Beautiful location! Seems as though you're travelling 100 miles an hour in the forward facing footage, compared to the leisurely pace of the canals.
I'm very surprised you didn't time your visit for the cheese market day. Thank you for taking us shopping with you that fella over on cruising the cut would never take us shopping. Your music choice for videos is very similar to Simon a Bloke in the Woods music choices for his videos. I quite like the music you both choose.
Oh now a little better $$ for a thinga Bob to hold a little Camera makes all the difference. Great moving pictures you got going now. Made for a fun trip David.
I was wondering what if a car would could from the other way what would happen, but the new thinga bob showed me up... lol...
Nice to see a town I'll never be able to visit in my life time.
Thanks for sharing,
Chris from Missouri
Books from hay that is a first for me, here in NZ we get milk from hay then make cheese and butter with it. Still trying to get my head around getting cheese and butter from books, I guess there must be a way.
Great video bro and was nice of someone to mow that hill before you went up to video. 28c here today and looks like will be for a few more days or even weeks yet. All the very best
David , y'all sure have funny names for people , places , and things over yonder lol beautiful countryside there
We certainly do
Looks like a Delkin mount. I used the triple and a single suction cup version outside the Corvette all the way though Arizona for my travel vlog. And that's on a carbon fiber and fiberglass body. None of the suction cups slipped at all as long as I wiped the area clean with a bit of water.
I have an old GoPro 4 with a waterproof cover and a USB wire though for power that I taped to the glass and trough the door.
Great vlog. It was very intersting to note that whilst councle signs are in both welsh and english, making them very hard to read quickly, every privatly owned sign was in english. Intersting that and somthing I had never noticed before watching your vlog
Love the vlog. You might link to google earth when you travel both in the van and on your boat.
I do on the boat vlogs
Well David, aftrr watching a number of these videos I can say that I prefer the boat stuff. My reaction to these videos is, that while interesting, I was cold watching them. Rain, rain and more rain. Cold and blustery is an apt description of Wales. Of course I live in South Florida and consider 20c sweater weather and at 10c I drag out my parka. But you are doing a great job. Thanks!
Well it was mid-winter...
I would like to see more footage of you chilling in the back of the van drinking a G&T with a friend or two.
Just like the canals, except asphalt instead of water and no duckies or geesies.