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Read the latest on what we and our guests have been doing.
Talybont Loop
My favourite section of the eastern Brecon Beacons is the path along Graig Fan Las on the edge of a wonderful glacial valley. The photographs will give you a sense of how breath-taking the views are, not to mention how breath-taking the climb up to it is! You can get...
Christmas 2019
Christmas starts for us with the traditional Carol Service in the ruins of Tintern Abbey. It is held on the first Saturday in December and begins with a torch light procession around the grounds and into the Nave where a great host gathers to celebrate the season with...
Sugar Loaf and five sisters
Hats off to Mathew, Jodie and their beautiful Hungarian Vizla, Gwen, for climbing the Skirrid and the Sugar Loaf in one day during their stay with us. Good effort. The couple stayed in the Skirrid cottage, named after the mountain, which they climbed one morning in...
Zippy do
Daredevils Danni and Mel from Bristol, who stayed with us in the Skirrid with their dog Chester, took on one of the UK's longest, tallest and fastest zip slides when they visited the National Diving Centre at Tidenham near Chepstow. Despite the rainy weather they...
Skirrid – Holy Mountain
Our Skirrid cottage is named after a small Monmouthshire mountain which rises to 486m from the Gavenny Valley in splendid isolation. In Welsh, it is known as Ysgyryd Fawr and its owned by the National Trust. Ysgyryd translates as “shake” or “tremble” while Fawr is...
Sand and Sea
Monmouthshire, Wye Valley, Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons and Forest of Dean are our playground at Upper Glyn Farm. Mountains and hills, valleys, trees and rivers, castles, abbeys and ancient monuments, lovely towns and great places to eat and drink. You can spend a...
Pirate of the Caribbean
An original Pirate of the Caribbean and a survivor of the charge of the Light Brigade would have been some of the fascinating stories our guests in the Blorenge Cottage learned about last weekend when they visited Tredegar House near Newport. It was one of two...
Leaf peeping
We are entering a golden period in which to visit the Welsh Marches, Wye Valley and Forest of Dean because as the leaves start to turn, we are blessed over the coming weeks with spectacular displays of autumnal colours. Upper Glyn Farm is surrounded by woods. We sit...
Team Away Day
The three Welsh Marches cottages played host to a team away day for a fantastic social enterprise called IRIS which is a general practice-based domestic violence and abuse (DVA) training support and referral programme. It is a relatively young, not for profit,...
Dogs and Horses in the Frame
We have a new puppy on the farm. His name is Bru, as in Brewdog, and he’s a four-and a half month old rescue lurcher from Ireland. We got him via the Forever Hounds Trust charity and travelled down to Devon to pick him up. We know he comes from a stray greyhound bitch...