Day 12 - Brecon to Abergavenny 9/06/2005
Brecon to Abergavenny! For those who have been to Wales this would seem a strange journey. Its less than an hours drive, its a journey back to where we came from and there is nothing to see in Abergavenny. So why did we go there? It's a long story!
First we went to the beautiful town of Hay-on-Wye. This town has quaint food outlets and forty book stores including the largest second hand book shop in the world. We bought books and more books even brand new ones for a £1. They even had a shop that just sold hundreds of teddies and jigsaws, my type of heaven or potential retirement village.
We went to Hereford (England) looking for Roger’s mothers cousin (Richard) in a small hamlet called Priors Frome. Absolutely lost down a country road a local came to our rescue and just happen to be Richard’s neighbour. He wasn’t home so we headed to the local pub for a traditional English all you eat £5 buffet with warm beer and thimble sized warm orange. I am learning to ask for a big glass and ice.
English pubs are sticklers for lunch between 12.00 and 2.00 so our initial choice for lunch, the Cock of Tupsley, missed out earlier. However, little were we to know we would be back to frequent their pub for some time. As we headed back to Hereford to use the Internet the plastic clutch pedal broke. After one hour the RAC 
came, after two hours the the tow truck turned up, after three hours we were seeing the town of Abergaveeny (Wales) by foot, after four hours we discovered our water supply had run out. Only consolation?
We slept at the tow-yard for free, big deal.