With this ever popular event soon to be upon us & our very own Nick helping lead one of the walks on the Saturday, we’ve just received news that Nicola & Dave from Plas y Brenin are running one of their brilliant navigation walks as part of it this year. It’ll be on Sunday, May 19th, meet at Peniel Chapel, Trefriw & lasts all day. The festival is listed on our Events page but for

With another dry weekend in the forecast we have again extended opening hours allowing you to stay a little longer out on the hills before coming down for a refuel. Also on Saturday we have our Open MIC Night with extended drinks licence until 10:30 pm, so come along & feel free to join in. To do so simply tap our host, Alan Mannouch, on the shoulder. Opening Times are:- Saturday 4th – 07:30 to

Well there’s no rest for a busy café……. but before what’s coming up next let me go back to the Easter weekend. It was not just our busiest Easter ever, Sunday was our busiest day ever, Saturday was our third busiest on record & Friday & Monday also kept us on our toes although on each of these two days I did at least slip out for a run. If you want to get or

Before I go any further a quick reminder that this Saturday sees the Fron Four fell race taking place near Caernarfon so good luck to race organiser, Mike Blake, & all those taking part, carrying fluids might be prudent. Now back to Manchester & that Why? Well it certainly wasn’t due to a lack of breakfast as my pre-race stopover at Kean & Sandra’s for the night saw me being fed a breakfast fit for

Well that was to be the title (but with an exclamation mark) of my previous blog but with hindsight I am glad I changed that blog & it’s contents because it has allowed me to indeed clear my head & believe it was a self induced blip. This more positive reflection was helped by a half decent performance in last weekend’s Goldrush in my own backyard. O.K. so my time for the Goldrush of 1:14:07