Flying Pig-Lets Holidays

24/09/2026

✨Are you looking for the perfect autumn escape? 🍁🍂
The Old Milking Parlour at Flying Piglets may be just what you are looking for. 🐷🐑
Set on the side of a peaceful, picturesque valley in the beautiful welsh countryside with walks from the door through ancient woodland to streams and fields.On the edge of the Cambrian Mountains and Brecon Beacons, it is the perfect place to relax, unwind and reconnect with nature. 🌱
The cottage:
🛌Sleeps 4 and an infant in 2 bedrooms, a comfortable king room on the ground floor and the other, a cosy twin set up in the eaves🛏️

The Old Milking Parlour offers a perfect base for families and friends 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 couples or solo travellers 👫 dog owners 🐕🐶 walkers🚶cyclists 🚴 bikers 🏍️photographers 📸 stargazers 🌌 and nature lovers 🐦‍⬛ or those looking for a farm stay🐷🐐🐖🐑🐔

Fully enclosed yard and field, outdoor seating area with firepit 🔥,plus lots of friendly animals who live on the small holding to meet and feed. 🐷

For more information and to check availability please visit www.flyingpiglets.co.uk or
Whatsap Rachael on 07876231402

18/09/2026

✨We loved hosting Jackie and Tamsin earlier in the year for the Llandovery literary festival. Such wonderful guests who really appreciated the peace tranquility in nature here.🌱
Chatting to them and learning about the sheer number of different birds around us here, has opened my eyes and become a bit of an obsession! 🐦‍⬛
I rarely go out walking now without my Merlin bird ap running!🪶
And now the best news ever is that The Book of Birds has become The Wainwright book of the Year! Huge congratulations to Jackie Morris and Rob Macfarlane. Such a beautiful and important book 👏🏻👏🏻

10/09/2026

🐑 Are you coming to the Llandovery Sheep Festival this year?🐑

It’s on 19th September and promises to be a wonderful day full of sheepy fun!💚

🐑If you are, why not come for the weekend and stay at The Old Milking ParlourAt Flying Piglets, just 3 miles from Llandovery, tucked away in the countryside with beautiful valley views, plenty of fresh air and lots of friendly farm animals to keep you company including our 2 resident sheep Frank and Fleur🐑🐏

After a busy day at the festival, you can come back, put your feet up and enjoy the peace and quiet of the farm — and on a clear night, our wonderful dark starry skies. ✨
The cottage
🐷 Sleeps 4 + 1 infant
🐾 Dog friendly
🌿 Walks from the door
⛰️ Edge of the Brecon Beacons
🐑 Working smallholding & friendly animals
🌙 Peace, quiet & stunning views

Perfect for couples, families or anyone who just fancies a proper Welsh countryside escape.

Come for the sheep… stay for the countryside! 🐑❤️

📍 The Old Milking Parlour, Cilycwm, Llandovery
🌐 www.flyingpiglets.co.uk

We’d love to welcome you! 🐷🐑💚

10/09/2026

01/09/2026

🧀How do you like your Welsh Rarebit? Traditional or with a twist?🧀
We had such a lovely lunch yesterday at the International Welsh Rarebit Centre in Defynnog, Sennybridge.❤️
We both love Welsh Rarebit but this is just the best!🧀
Each time we go, there are seasonal specials and this time we had the Summer Rarebit with goats cheese, honey, walnuts and marjoram.
It was delicious as always.😋
Then we just had to have coffee and cake, the courgette and lime is now my favourite! ❤️
The atmosphere inside is warm and relaxing and they sell local crafts and produce too.🧶
Upstairs from the cafe is a small exhibition space and we bought a couple of beautiful prints by a local artist to put in the cottage. 🧑‍🎨
We are so lucky to have so many amazing places within easy reach andWe love discovering new ones and sharing them with our guests. 🐷💚
Have you been to the Rarebit Centre, or is it still on your Welsh adventure list?

31/08/2026

✨🌼Would you like to escape to the country for a late summer break?🌼✨
The Old Milking Parlour at Flying Piglets Holidays offers a peaceful, relaxed stay away from the hustle and bustle, perfect for couples, solo travellers or small families.☺️
🐑Farm stay sleeps 4 (plus a little one) 🛌🛏️🛏️
🐾Pets welcome too🐾
🔥We have some late available in September.
Any length of stay welcome 🔥
Message me to book direct or ask me anything✨

🐖Farm stay sleeps 4 (plus a little one)
🐾Pet friendly too!

☎️ 078762314052

We would love to welcome you here.
Rachael x

peacefulgettaways

17/08/2026

What has he been up to this time?🐷
I was out doing the morning animal rounds, feeding, cleaning out and filling houses with straw when Albert seized his opportunity.🐖
Wheelbarrow loads of clean bedding going into the pigs house when normal Albert would be busy helping to make his bed one of his favourite things to do since he was a piglet.
I should have known better than to leave the gate open just that bit too long with the electric fence off.
Albert saw his chance and lolopped off out of the run, while my back was turned, closely followed of course by his 2 brothers.🐖🐖🐖
It’s always a bit of a panic when this happens as you really can’t make a pig do anything they don’t want to do, let alone 3,and they have been known to trot off down the lane on occasions!🐖🐖🐖
Luckily, it has just been too hot for a piggy adventure recently and so after a quick wander around the place and the lure of some apples, they went into the field with the goats.😊
Hopefully they will be happy there for a while with a change of scene, space to run, their muddy wallow.🐖😊
Pigs really do love mud especially when it’s hot and we decided that Albert really is quite a clever pig isn’t he?!🐽

16/08/2026

☀️Pretty, estuary town or quiet, sandy beach?☀️ which is your favourite?
🏰Today we were lucky enough to find both. We drove to Cardigan, a vibrant, market town with a medieval castle and lots of independent shops and cafes. ☕️
It sits on the Teffi and today was the Cardigan food festival, which was lovely to wander around and sit by the water.🌊
🐾Bonnie came too of course waiting patiently with a lick of ice cream, for her promised run on the beach. 🐾
☀️As the sun started to go down, we headed to Poppit Sands, a wide, empty, sandy beach, just perfect for dogs and only 5 minutes in the car.⛱️
Bonnie had hurt her back just before the heatwave so she hadn’t had a proper run since as it has been too hot.🥵
The tide was miles out and she absolutely loves the sea! She had a lovely time running in and out of the waves and swimming to catch her ball. 🌊
It was a really lovely day for all of us and we have found yet another new favourite place for a day trip with Bonnie🐾
We have so many amazing dog friendly beaches not too far from the cottage and pretty coastal towns.
🗓️We still have some availability during September if you fancy a peaceful late summer break after the kids go back to school.
📱Message me for any length of stay.
Rachael x

03/08/2026

I have been a bit absent for the past few weeks. 😶‍🌫️
Our eldest son Hugh, came to stay with us a couple of months ago feeling very burnt out from working and travelling abroad for a few years.
After lots of rest and sunshine in nature with peace and quiet, he is happily very much better.🌱☀️
Having him here, has been a really wonderful and unexpected few weeks, spending time, which you don’t often get for more than a couple of days with your adult children. 💕
He has made it his job to help wherever he can, with the animals the land ( mainly waging war on the hundreds of huge patches of brambles), painting our last yellow wall white,and even ironing the bedding and cleaning the cottage at changeover times. 🦆
He has helped out our neighbours too with painting walls and barn doors and strimming.🫟
He even co-opted his friends Jim and Danielle to help out too, who came to stay in the cottage for a little reset from their busy tech lives around the world. 🌱
Happily, he is back to himself again and ready to tackle the world. Next stop Greece to sail his friends new catamaran and then Berlin. Bitter sweet for us as we have loved having him and will really miss him (and all his help around the place) but know that he will be back!🥰