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- Beaver Monterey 33'
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- since 2013
Well spur of the moment we left Aberystwyth Thursday afternoon heading in the Shrewsbury direction but with no plans of where to go or stay, we dined in Tesco car park along the way, then halfway between Welshpool and Shrewsbury there is a superb down to earth pub called 'The Halfway House' in strangely enough a little village called 'Halfway House' 
We used to call and stay there a lot as the locals are a really friendly, welcoming bunch, mostly farmers but a superb mix and all happy to have a chat, the best bit is that the dogs are more than welcome and later in the evening they are fine to run around the pub off the leads as long as other customers are happy and they always are! Last year the old landlord and his wife moved on and the new landlords were not so good, all the locals left and the one night we called in it had lost all it's atmosphere so we never went back. Thursday night when we called all was well again, the boring landlords have left after just 2 and a half months it turns out and the new landlord is one of the old locals that we'd met in the past and normal service has resumed......... it was very early hours when we fell out of there Friday morning 
Friday night was spent in Chester as I've posted elsewhere, Saturday afternoon was spent at Shrewsbury Airfield with a couple of fellow RVOC members but not Tony and Penny as they were on their travels and strangely enough visiting other fellow RVOC members.
Saturday night we were back at the Halfway House and next door the landlord has opened up a very old listed pub called The Star Inn no pumps or fridges just the proper old cellar and barrels with taps straight off them so proper ale for all you real ale lovers. There's 3 very small rooms and all proper old way with open fire in each and a proper old radiogram playing old vinyl LP's really great fun place to visit and well worth calling in if you are over that way (the Star is not open all the time but he is hoping to open it up most weekends over the summer though if there is enough interest and a big enough group I'm sure he'd open up for you
Sunday night was spent back over at the Airfield with Tony and Penny and the mystery other RVOC members and a superb time was had with plenty of help with our Satellite dish although we failed to sort it we have plenty of ideas to try out now and I'm sure we will beat the thing 
Again the Airfield is well worth the visit and we will be calling back to visit and stay there in the near future as we had a huge welcome and a huge good time .............. What happened to the mini meet that was supposed to be happening here in January Paul & Debra, Daybreaker and who else???
On the way home we spent the night in a layby on the top of Plynlimon Mountain and got home this morning at about 9am so a completely unplanned, spur of the moment weekend and what a superb time we had, as often the case the unplanned trips are often the best
We used to call and stay there a lot as the locals are a really friendly, welcoming bunch, mostly farmers but a superb mix and all happy to have a chat, the best bit is that the dogs are more than welcome and later in the evening they are fine to run around the pub off the leads as long as other customers are happy and they always are! Last year the old landlord and his wife moved on and the new landlords were not so good, all the locals left and the one night we called in it had lost all it's atmosphere so we never went back. Thursday night when we called all was well again, the boring landlords have left after just 2 and a half months it turns out and the new landlord is one of the old locals that we'd met in the past and normal service has resumed......... it was very early hours when we fell out of there Friday morning Friday night was spent in Chester as I've posted elsewhere, Saturday afternoon was spent at Shrewsbury Airfield with a couple of fellow RVOC members but not Tony and Penny as they were on their travels and strangely enough visiting other fellow RVOC members.
Saturday night we were back at the Halfway House and next door the landlord has opened up a very old listed pub called The Star Inn no pumps or fridges just the proper old cellar and barrels with taps straight off them so proper ale for all you real ale lovers. There's 3 very small rooms and all proper old way with open fire in each and a proper old radiogram playing old vinyl LP's really great fun place to visit and well worth calling in if you are over that way (the Star is not open all the time but he is hoping to open it up most weekends over the summer though if there is enough interest and a big enough group I'm sure he'd open up for you
Sunday night was spent back over at the Airfield with Tony and Penny and the mystery other RVOC members
and a superb time was had with plenty of help with our Satellite dish although we failed to sort it we have plenty of ideas to try out now and I'm sure we will beat the thing Again the Airfield is well worth the visit and we will be calling back to visit and stay there in the near future as we had a huge welcome and a huge good time .............. What happened to the mini meet that was supposed to be happening here in January Paul & Debra, Daybreaker and who else???On the way home we spent the night in a layby on the top of Plynlimon Mountain and got home this morning at about 9am so a completely unplanned, spur of the moment weekend and what a superb time we had, as often the case the unplanned trips are often the best
