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Planning on doing the transcambrian way in the next few weeks, probably over the bank holiday weekend. Will do it over 3 days.
We would like to travel light, camping but don't want to take a stove etc...
Rhayader looks easy for first evening meal with plenty of pubs.
Second night looks to be Llangurig. Is there just one pub? Anyone know how they will feel about dirty smelly mtb'ers? Any thoughts, is there a takeaway place or anything. Any advice would be great.
Thank you
Watching with interest as I'm doing the trans cambrian in June.
Have eaten at the pub in Llangurig while dirty and smelly, albeit in the beer garden as the weather was nice. I don't think eating inside would be a problem unless you were really filthy.
There's also a shop there but I can't recall ever passing it and seeing it open!
The Bluebell Inn in Llangurig was fine about it when we stayed there. No takeaways that I could see, and the shop had closed early that day.
Bluebell didn't used to be fussy about filthy motorcyclist getting in there, getting shitfaced then dossing in the vans.
That's great info. Thanks all.
Bluebell sounds like it will work....
Llangurig 🙂
You may find yourself eating horse... if you can find it
in order,
pub at llanbadarn fynydd, ace butties.
rhayader, spoilt for choice.
café at pont rhyd y groes
bluebell llangurig. ace beer and good sized portion of gammon and chips
post office at staylittle, hot pastie and coffee
mach, bakery on main street, heaven.
Might I add the kebab shop in Mach. After a long day, sitting in the gutter with one of their best is brilliant.
I did the TCW at the end of March. Started at 1500 (I'd got there by train and couldn't get the earlier service), bivvied somewhere past Claerwen Dam, finished the following day at about 1430. Food wise I stocked up at the Spar in Knighton, had fish and chips in Rhayader turn R at the clock tower, it's about 100m along the road) and restocked at the Spar in Rhayader. When you get to Dovey Junction, check the train times and if you've got more than an hour wait for the train I'd head back to the road and head for Mach.
Getting to Rhayader is easy, even in the soggy conditions I had it was just over four hours. The bit between Rhayader and Claerwen seemed to take forever but it was starting to go dark and the weather was turning. Some long draggy climbs in the second half and the last ten miles from Foel Fadian seem to go on for ever as the route twists and turns in all the little valleys.
When you look at the route on a map it doesn't look very remote at all but apart from Knighton and Rhayader I [b]saw[/b] six people.
Ha, I saw *three* people!
I hear the Blue Bell welcomes smelly bikers. There is another pub there too. The shop is open daytime during the week.
There is also some kind of pizza tent place at the bottom of Hafod Forest (before Cwmystwyth) which will probably be open on a bank holiday weekend. It would be a good place to stop if it is open, as the rest of the day is scenic but goes on a bit.
@chrispo - bloody Yorkshiremen! 😉
Didn't see the pizza tent you mention but I wasn't looking for it plus I went through there at about 7am so it wouldn't have been open anyway.
NB I haven't actually been to this pizza place, I've just seen signs for it when riding through recently. They may just be a cruel joke...
Had there been pizza there in 2014 when I did the TCW in a day, I'd probably have smashed the world face-stuffing record, as it was around that point it all started to go downhill (sadly not literally).