The Move To Wales

It's now been two and a half years since we moved to Wales. Tired of the hectic life we had in Oxfordshire and spending less and less time together we decided one day over a few bottles of wine to pack it all in and look for something much more simpler

We decided that we would quite like to live in Shropshire after spending some pleasant weekends there at our friends B&B but soon realised (being 2007 and peak property prices) that we were not going to be able to afford a move there. We then thought of Wales and seeing the price of property realised that this was a much more realistic option.

After quite a few discussions and another couple of bottles of wine we decided to focus our search at the end of the M4 in the area of Carmarthenshire. We booked a weekend away at a lovely hotel in Llandeilo but fell down at the first hurdle as we got up to leave and were met with 6 inch of snow; the trip was off, not a good start. A few more weeks passed and I rang the hotel again but it was fully booked, after a another 30 mins of searching I found another lovely hotel, The Ty Mawr in Brechfa and what a gem it is. Run by Annabel and Steve it is a perfect country retreat and spending a wonderful time there we realised that this was the area we wanted to live in.

It took another three trips there to find something that we liked but one day we found it, tucked away in a small hamlet in the Brechfa forest. It wasn't the most perfect house but as we stood in the Garden and looked at the view we turned and smiled at each other and knew that this was the one.