{"id":908,"date":"2020-08-11T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=908"},"modified":"2020-08-11T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:53:04","slug":"11th-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/08\/11th-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"11th August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0Exhausted but in a good way<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Nothing today<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Fort Salem<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Weather today could hardly have been more different to yesterday &#8211; hot, with bright sunshine throughout the day. We&#8217;d already decided to get going reasonably early to do the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breconbeacons.org\/things-to-do\/attractions\/natural\/waterfalls\/walking-trails\">Four Falls Trail<\/a> from Cwm Porth &#8211; our original idea was to avoid rain forecast later in the day, and although in the end we didn&#8217;t need to worry about that, we were glad we&#8217;d gone early because it got pretty busy (and the car park was full) later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walk was lovely, although challenging in places as we had to descend to the second, third and fourth falls and then climb back up &#8211; which was pretty tough going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second and third falls were the biggest success, with F even able to go for a bit of a dip in the river between them,  but overall a really lovely walk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li 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height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"913\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?attachment_id=913#main\" class=\"wp-image-913\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-800x1067.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6330-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 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href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDwP3-onr-V\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">More walking &amp; waterfalls in Wales<\/a><\/p> <p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/patel.damyanti\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Damyanti<\/a> (@patel.damyanti) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2020-08-11T15:21:55+00:00\">Aug 11, 2020 at 8:21am PDT<\/time><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once we&#8217;d finished the walk we went and got ice creams, and then went to pick up some more groceries &#8211; and noting that no-one in the shop was wearing a facemask except me and the staff I checked the guidelines for Wales and realised that it&#8217;s not a requirement in shops in Wales &#8211; which explains why so few people wear them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got back to the cottage quite tired and I&#8217;m feeling tired still now so better get some sleep. Tomorrow would have been Dad&#8217;s birthday and we&#8217;re meeting up with E and family at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/dyffryn-gardens\">Duffryn Gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0Exhausted but in a good way Listening to:\u00a0Nothing today Watching:\u00a0Fort Salem Weather today could hardly have been more different to yesterday &#8211; hot, with bright sunshine throughout the day. 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