Old Station in Tintern and the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail

The first stop on our mamouth day was to the Old Station at Tintern. At only £1 to park for 3 hours, it's a bargain. The old victorian style train is now a cafe, the tracks are a picnic area and the signal box is in front of the fabulous Wye Valley landscape. We walked the 1 mile river meadow trail before stopping for a ploughmans lunch from the cafe and a walk through the shop and museum with the doggies.

Onto the Forest of Dean Sculpture trail. We aren' massively into art, and some were definitly better than others but a 4.5 hour and 3 hour walk stretched the legs. The forest was empty and so peaceful and quiet. At £3.50 to park and you have to pay an additional £1 for the map, it's rather pricey, but the map is essential as the trail is marked, but the sculptures aren't. Our favourite has to be the cathedral, a huge stained glass window handing from an aisle of trees.