Hay Hideout Huts

What will you find in Hay-on-Wye (10 minutes’ drive)? Well, plenty of bookshops that’s for sure, as this place is home to an annual book festival, but there's also the splendid river Wye when you fancy taking a canoe or paddleboard out for a run. Llangorse Lake (half an hour) is another place with a boat load of opportunities for watersports – yes, literally, as there are rowing boats, paddleboards, kayaks, pedalos and Canadian canoes all ready for a captain to take the helms. Once you’ve mastered the water, it might be time to move onto some new heights. If so, set your sights on Pen y Fan (45 minutes), the highest peak in southern Britain, or more mountainous terrain around the town of Brecon (half an hour), which is rather lovely in itself. With castles such as Bronllys Castle (20 minutes) and Crickhowell Castle (40 minutes) or the cathedral city of Hereford (45 minutes) and the Victorian Brobury House Gardens (25 minutes) all other options for your afternoons out around here, you’re sure to have a well-rounded trip.