We had one glorious day of sunshine on Saturday and I was lucky enough to be at the Welsh Food Festival at Glansevern Hall Gardens near Welshpool. The setting was perfect and the gardens provided a stunning backdrop to a well organised event. The weather was a bonus and one of my friends actually had a touch of sunburn!
The stalls/tents were an eclectic mix of fine foods and wine, local Welsh produce with a smattering of somewhat different produce from neighbouring Shropshire. There were organic breads pastries and cakes, rare breed butchers, home made ice cream, an extensive range of grape and traditional country fruit wines, liquor and meads and even good old Blaenavon Cheddar Company were there with their local cheeses one matured in the Big Pit mineshaft. These hand made cheeses would make super gifts for birthdays and Christmas. There were, of course, samples available for each of the stalls and all were 'yummie'! For the only male in my group there were plenty of wines and beers to sample. He eventually selected to take home some Monmouthshire Hand brewed & bottled beers made using only mineral water and the finest ingredients.
The gardens were open for amateur digital photographers like me, and so were the greenhouses, enabling me to have a fine time with my borrowed digital camera. Solitary male also was doing a spot of photography, but he was photographing wrought iron gates and bark textures and things like that where I was more interested in capturing the feel of the day!
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