Introduction
We bought Croesor Bach back in 1996. I can still remember the sense of complete astonishment when we finally completed: we could hardly believe that we had managed to buy a perfectly traditional farmhouse in such a beautiful location. This was, though tempered with the realisation that it needed a great deal of decoration and refurbishment.
We could also hardly believe that it had been on the market for eighteen months: why had nobody else bought it? We can only accept what the estate agent told us: that rural houses look lovely but what people really want is the comfort of living in a village, with all the amenities to hand.
Since then we seem to have been almost continuously improving one aspect or another.
Sally and I were drawn back to Wales by childhood memories of holidays dabbling in streams, scrambling up mountains and chasing steam trains. We would like to think that we have helped a new generation of children, and their parents too maybe, to experience this magical region.
What this website cannot do is give a sense of the aural soundscape – the silence, broken only by the gentle noises from the stream running all the way down the valley, the occasional sheep, sometimes a cuckoo, and the distant tooting of Ffestiniog railway steam trains. There are no streetlights anywhere nearby, so the nights are often wonderfully starry too.
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