After a quick wander around Crickhowell in some drizzle, we went for dinner in the hotel restaurant. The food was simply brilliant – the highlight for me was my starter of pan fried goat’s cheese with apple and ginger chutney. The following two courses were excellent too and with the total bill coming to under £60 for the pair of us including a bottle of wine it proved good value too.

On Saturday after a hearty cooked breakfast in the hotel we decided to go for a walk amongst the Brecon Beacons. We headed up towards Llangattock and from there got onto the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal and started walking towards Brecon. After walking for a while we decided that we’d try and make it all the way to Brecon and then get the bus back from there. That’s nearly 15 miles by road. We didn’t make it in the end as we hadn’t planned properly or taken supplies. We got to Brynich, about 1.5 miles outside of Brecon, which is a pretty good effort I reckon.

Kate unfortunately has dodgy feet which were quite aggravated by this point, so we got a taxi back and I then left Kate in the bath back in the hotel while I got some snacks, including a Choc Dip! We had Chinese for dinner from The Beaufort and while the wait for indeterminable, the food was really good when it came.

On Sunday we went down to Big Pit, where I’ve been twice before over the years, but it’s probably over 10 years since I last went. It was a good day and the canteen and baths were an interesting addition since I last went. Then we headed home and overall, it was a good weekend. The hotel and food are thoroughly recommended, although maybe not the walk to Brecon, nice as the countryside is.

Anyway, instead we went out for a meal at Raduni Indian Cuisine in Ledbury, which has always looked nice from the outside but always seems to have very few customers in it. Since I couldn’t find any write ups about it on the web, I thought I’d write up our experiences for future references.

We went at about 6:30 last night and there was only one other table occupied. There were several friendly staff though so we were quickly seated and well attended to. We started off with some poppadoms plus accompaniments which were very nice. We ordered the Raduni Special, which I think was a mild dish made up of chicken tikka, lamb tikka, prawns and king prawns cooked in a balti style and a chicken tikka jalfrezi, marked on their menu as a 3 chilli dish (the maximum being 5). We also ordered some saag aloo and veg bhaji as side orders, with a plain naan for me and a mushroom naan for Katie.

The food was really nice when it turned it, which was just after we’d finished our poppadoms. The chicken was lovely and tender, really melt in the mouth stuff. I found the special a bit too tomatoey for my taste, but Katie choose that and it was nice. The Jalfrezi was lovely. After a while it was proving a bit hot even for me, who likes spicy food. I don’t want to think how hot a 5 chilli dish would be! The sides were good, although when I ordered bhaji I did expect some balls like onion bhaji. Naans were really good too!

Including tip, it all came in at £60, which isn’t cheap, but nearly a third of that was the bottle of wine I’d ordered before I noticed the “house wines” section. Still, at around £20 a head for a main course + side it’s not great value, but the food was excellent so probably did justify the cost, and the staff were very attentive. I would recommend it!