New Year 2010! A night to Remember!

Spend New Year with us and have a night to remember! We also love there it is by Shalamar.

Accommodation for the Ryder Cup 2010

Please contact us if you would like to stay in a lighthouse for the Ryder Cup 2010. We are looking at 10/14 days and the lighthouse has 4 double rooms, all en-suite with a waterbed   and the rest 4-poster beds. You can see more on our website.  The cost is £25k for that period.  You [...]

Euro £45m Lottery winner lives in Newport! Links with West Usk Lighthouse!

Jubilant Les Scadding yesterday revealed he was £68 in the red before landing Britain’s biggest lottery jackpot. Jobless Les, 58, was speaking of his joy at winning £45,570,835.50 five years after being struck by testicular cancer. And it was only through the TV and radio reports of the dad of three’s big day that two [...]

Meditation for Peace and Prosperity Workshop

Prosperity & Peace Meditation Workshop On Sunday the 25th October 10.30am -5pm The days of greed are over. We have all the resources here and now. We have got to learn to create the things that will make us feel at home within ourselves and with everyone else. Our objective for Sunday is to make [...]

Accolade for Gwent’s restaurants

Good Food Guide 2009 One restaurant in the top 50. It is The Crown at Whitebrook at no. 36! Its sister restaurant is the  The Crown at the Celtic Manor, Newport. (cooking score of 5). Restaurants who got a mention are: The Walnut Tree and The Hardwick in Abergavenny. (cooking score of 5 and 4) [...]

Eagle Owl

An eagle owl was spotted in the leafy Cardiff suburb of Pontcanna, prompting one alarmed resident to call the RSPCA. Despite the best efforts of the animal charity on Friday, the large and powerful bird of prey remained on the loose after further sightings in the locale and Canton area of the city. It is [...]

Marriage Vows, Hen Nights and more!

Fancy having your vows renewed by a professional.  See www.humanism.org.uk for a list of practitioners. We don’t have a licence but you can have a ceremony here with a small number of guests or you can honeymoon here! It is a great place for family gatherings, hen nights and well behaved stag nights when the [...]

Abergavenny Food Festival 19-20 Sept.

This is Abergavenny’s 11th Food Festival. We are only 35 minutes to  the town centre. Last year this event attracted 25,000 people from around the world,  making this festival one of the biggest around.  This year, Michael Winner, Tom Parker Bowles and chefs such as Matt Tebbutt from Foxhunter, James Sommerin from Whitebrook and Celtic [...]

Water Beetle Nearby in the Reen.

Thanks again for a most enjoyable stay-inadvertantly I have ended up with an extra set of keys which I will post back to you this week. I enclose a picture of one of the more spectacular ‘ditch denizens’ encountered during survey this year-the water beetle Hydaticus transversalis, which I found in two ditches, one of [...]

US Cruiser Ship in Newport!

A first for Newport The MS Prinsendam, a 200 metre long ship, carrying 800 passengers visited Newport yesterday as Cardiff was too small to allow it to dock! Good news for Newport.  We watched this incredible sight from the lantern room.  Frank lit some fireworks, his way of saying thank you!   This,  we believe, is [...]