Food & Drink

Jules’ Cakes offer in-house cupcake workshops to suit all ages. Unleash your artistic talents decorating delicious cakes to take home or enjoy straight away! Your can book a 2 hour workshop at the Barn, when she will show you how to decorate 30 cupcakes, choosing from three themes. This can be booked direct with Jules. If you’re having a celebration during your stay at Cae Madog Barn, Jules’ Cakes can also bake you beautiful occasion cakes. Have a look at her website to see a range of her amazing cakes or check out her Instagram page.

Brigands Inn, Mallwyd provide locally sourced produce and have a vast menu that covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and takeaway.

Machynlleth, our local town, is worth a visit for a browse round the shops and eateries. Enjoy a delicious lunch at one of the country pubs or cafes, most of which offer extensive vegetarian and vegan options.

Just outside Machynlleth is Ynyshir, the most highly-awarded restaurant in Wales, named Best Restaurant in the UK two years running in 2022 and 2023. It has two Michelin stars, five AA rosettes, and is ranked in the UK’s top five UK restaurants by the Good Food Guide.

Walking

The Hafren Forest has a number of walks of varying length, ranging from easy going board walks to riverside trails, there is something for everyone. The walks offer fantastic views of the surrounding countryside, and get you up close to some of the brilliant waterfalls in the area.
The Hafren Forest is also a great place for picnics and horse riding, with its excellent bridleways.

Pen Pumlumon Fawr (Plynlimon) is the highest point of mid-Wales, standing at 757 metres (2,467 ft). The principal land cover within the area (known as the ‘Green Desert’) contains nationally and internationally important habitats and species, such as dry and wet dwarf-shrub heathland, blanket bog, unimproved acid grassland and a number of small lakes. Folklore says there is even a sleeping giant in Plynlimon – will you spot him when you visit?

Wales Coast Path one of the few footpaths in the world to follow a nation’s coastline. Enjoy panoramic views on a clifftop stroll and explore some truly picturesque fishing villages.

Brecon Beacons National Park is loved for its big green open spaces, offering miles and miles of wonderful walking during your holiday in Wales.

Snowdonia National Park covering 823 square miles of diverse landscapes, it is the largest National Park in Wales, has the highest mountain in England and Wales and the largest lake in Wales. Well worth a visit whilst you’re here.

Rallying

Forest Experience Rally School offer a variety of driving experiences, from 1:1 to corporate driving days, and is only a few miles down the road.

Nature & Wildlife

Elan Valley Reserve is 70 square miles of moorland, bog, woodland, river and reservoir. The environments are all of national importance for their diversity of plants and land birds in Wales. The estate received the International Dark Sky Park award and also has a wealth of nocturnal wildlife that thrives under the unspoilt dark skies.

Dyfi Wildlife Centre find out all about the Dyfi Osprey Project.

Cadair Idris Visitor Centre & Tea Room at Southern Snowdonia. Showcasing the wildlife, geology and legends of Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve, with interactive games, animated films. You can even see infrared footage of rare lesser horseshoe bats in the roofspace.

RSPB Lake Vrynwy Reserve listen to the pied flycatchers and redstarts, watch dippers nesting by the rocky streams and goosanders bobbing on the water. You might even be lucky enough to spot a peregrine hunting during your visit.

UNESCO Dyfi Biosphere with landscapes ranging from moorland to sand dunes to saltmarsh and woodland forests. Look out for otters, osprey, red kits and even dolphin pods in the bay.