{"id":48524,"date":"2017-03-17T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-rhayader-the-elan-valley-powys-sublime-natural-beauty\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:39:40","slug":"lets-move-to-rhayader-the-elan-valley-powys-sublime-natural-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-rhayader-the-elan-valley-powys-sublime-natural-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Rhayader & the Elan valley, Powys: sublime natural beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDon\u2019t come for mod cons or fleshpots. Come for reflective quiet and red kitesWhat\u2019s going for it? \u201cFollow the artists\u201d, canny home hunters always say, \u201cthey\u2019re always a step ahead.\u201d I beg to differ. Follow the monks. Monks, after all, were the original downshifters. Tired of the hullabaloo and poor work-pray balance of 14th-century life (and who wouldn\u2019t be?), they had a knack of rooting out the most delightful and away-from-it-all spots on God\u2019s Earth. Spots so lovely, one would be quite content to spend the rest of one\u2019s life there without being tempted back to medieval Sodoms or Gomorrahs. Spots like Rhayader and the Elan valley. The landscape round here is crisscrossed by monks\u2019 trods, holy motorways of commerce and communication between mid-Wales abbeys like Strata Florida. Centuries on, you can see the attraction of the \u201cWelsh Lake District\u201d. Don\u2019t come for mod cons or fleshpots. Come for reflective quiet and sublime natural beauty. Come for red kites. Though judging from the wholefood shops, organic farms and high per capita pub ratio hereabouts, it\u2019s more craft beer spelt-eaters than spiritual gurus the valley\u2019s attracting these days.The case against Wet: bring gills. Converging trunk roads can turn Rhayader into Piccadilly Circus (ish). Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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