Llanfoist to Goytre Wharf
Got up at 0700 but this time we didn’t start walking until 1015. Before that, though, we drove to Waitrose as I had noticed that the temperature gauge was reading high - and that no heat was coming from the heater matrix. At the petrol station I refilled the coolant, which had gone well below the minimum. I think the water pump is on the way out. With the coolant topped up we went into Abergavenny to buy an OS map of the last bit of the canal, then drove up a very steep hill just south of Llanfoist and parked by bridge 95. I got the bike out, and we recommenced our walk along the towpath.
Castle Lower Bridge 94
raised drain plug
aqueduct over tributary of Usk
Richard's Farm Bridge 93
Heol-Gerrig Bridge 92
Wooden Bridge 91
Morgan's Bridge 90
towpath work at Barn Bridge 89
Twyn-Glas Bridge 88
masonry work at Poplar Bridge 87
pumps at Ochran Turn Bridge 86
smoothing down the freshly applied clay ready for Terram bank stabilisation
bank stabilisation work on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
honeycomb Terram is held in position on Terram mat by steel pins, then aggregate is poured on top
Terram's head office is conveniently just down the canal at Pontypool, but you can be sure the stuff wasn't transported by water!
Thimbles Bridge 85
Ty Coch bridge 84 - here we get the water back
stop planks hold back the canal under bridge 84
Beech Tree Bridge 83
Pwllrhwyaid Bridge 82
Llanover Bridge 81
CaraCruiser "Schizo"
CaraCruiser "Schizo"
Mount Pleasant Upper Bridge 80
Mount Pleasant Lower Bridge 79
aqueduct over tributary of Usk
Mill Turn Bridge 78
Preacher's Bridge 77
Lapstone Bridge 76
Jenkin Rosser's Bridge 75
Goytre limekilns
aqueduct, Goytre
Goytre, from the Waterside Inn Tea room
At Goytre Wharf we stopped for lunch in the Waterside Inn - sounds like a pub but is actually a tea room with a bar. The bar was closed. The tea room should have been closed too, as the advertised opening days were Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but they were doing something for someone with special needs so they opened for food. I had a breakfast fry-up; Jan had ham, egg and chips. With peas. Weather up to now had been the usual sunshine, and warmer than yesterday, but, while we were eating, it tried to snow. The sun came out when we did, and we carried on.
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