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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 372391, member: 25&quot;]We have a part time retreat near Talgarth, for&nbsp; a couple of decades regulars at the Hay Festival, and I must have bought a thousand books in Hay over the years so I know it pretty well including what may be the only greengrocer in Wales to sell Kent cobnuts in season and it was the Three Tuns near the bridge (it was certainly the one just past the turn to the bridge heading from the town) where I had the best fish and chips in my life and I have had a lot of fish and chips. Unhappily the owners closed the pub a few weeks later before I was able to get back for more.The Black Swan may now be the Swan Hotel.</p><p>I know the general area pretty well, when there we eat a lot from George the Butcher in Talgarth and Georgina&#039;s deli. I even speak a few words of Welsh. My partner is half Welsh and she has a fair bit of conversational Welsh, for some years we had a stall at the Builth Wells antique fair where this could be handy, although it is not a very Welsh speaking area. I don&#039;t remember mentioning it, though in thousands of posts I probably have done in some antique connection.</p><p>Mpst of the time we live somewhere much more urban, although as I write this I can smell, not traffic fumes but the honeysuckle blossom round my open window.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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