Danywenallt YHA to Brecon

Having stayed the night at the Youth Hostel, today should have been a pleasant, walk, unfortunately, the long walk yesterday and the problems with my boots made it rather less so.
It started well with a cooked breakfast, before climbing back up to the Usk Valley Walk which briefly follows an old tramline used by horse drawn trams in the Industrial Revolution to bring coal and limestone down to the canal. The sandstone sleepers still remain in places and there are informative signs. The Walk then heads into the valley and up the other side through woodland and farmland, fortunately a clearer and better marked path than yesterday with more considerate farmers. One of the reasons for the Walk deviating away from the canal and river is so that you can see sweeping views of the valley from the hillside, plus the more distant mountains.

View over Usk Valley

Eventually the Walk rejoins the canal, and from there it was a steady trudge to Brecon, passing many cyclists, walkers, children, dogs, canoes and narrow boats. The crossing of the River Usk on an one of the original aqueducts was both impressive and a navigation point, indicating that Brecon was now close.
The canal, and the Usk Valley Walk ends in the Brecon canal basin with its ducks, flowers and food offerings, but I had to go a bit further to the Visitor information office, to find out where my bus left from. Then it was cake and a very refreshing cup of tea, and a visit to Boots for some change (and some batteries I needed) for the bus. I had a fear that it would be a "correct change only" bus, and with only £20 notes I would be left to walk home, however it was a very nice bus driver, so maybe he would have let me off.
I covered 16 km today, although it felt more with my sore feet.

Brecon Canal Basin