Hay on Wye is an excellent place for a pleasant stroll especially when you’ve been looking at the bookshops all morning and want a change. If you go up Castle Street, just past the Wine Cellar Pub you will find a small entryway through the buildings leading down the hill. This is signposted to “The Warren – 5km” and if you walk down the hill you will find a veritable warren of paths. The path leads you past the stock yard and then a field with ponies and wild rabbits hopping around as if they were tame. When you come to the first cross paths if you take the left one it will take you on a woodland walk and eventually if you keep turning left, take you back into Hay another way round. Take the right path leading down the hill and you will take a downward woodland path leading out eventually, to a path at the side of the River Wye. The old woodland does not really have very much wildlife (unless if disappeared on the day we were there, but the path keeps you out of the sun for a while on a hot day, and the views of the river bank when the path opens out are wonderful. Keep on this path and eventually it will bring you round to join the other path into Hay – a nice walk of about 5 km.