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RE your Tuesday, I highly recommend Chepstow - Monmouth - Abergavenny - Hay via Hay Bluff. I did this on a LEJOG a couple of years ago and this was on the real unexpected highlights of the entire ride! Especially the climb up Hay Bluff and then the descent the other side, the views were out of this world. You can pick the bit out of the route here: https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/791939077 - all lovely countryside around that way.
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I'm thinking of making a week's holiday of the Green Man festival (Brecon Beacons) in August, with lots of cycle touring and some hiking in the Beacons, then the festival to unwind. Rough plan is to get the train out from London for a better starting point, ending up at Brecon mid-week for a hike before setting up festival camp on Thursday. My genius crude plan of looking at the green bits on Google maps threw up something like this:
Saturday: train to Reading, Reading to Chippenham (North Wessex Downs AONB)
Sunday: Chippenham to Worcester (Cotswolds)
Monday: Worcester to Chepstow (Malvern Hills, Wye Valley)
Tuesday: Chepstow to Brecon via Hay-on-Wye
Wednesday: Hike: The Beacons Circuit
Thursday: festival... (Train back Monday from Abergavenny/Newport.)
I'd probably camp for duration of the cycling then get a couple of nights' B&B in Brecon for recuperation and a proper scrub. Cycle route looks like 70-80 miles/day over B roads without too many diversions.
Any recommendations to fill in details or suggestions for alternative routes much appreciated.