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Freshwater West to Angle – Wales Coast Path
This section of the coastal path was one of the first section we completed, and now I look back it was a while ago in May 2017. But it hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s still there and remains a great walk. There’s a particular kind of hush that falls over Freshwater West the moment you step…
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Longtown on the Edge
I had never been to Longtown before Auntie took me there to relive some of her childhood holiday memories with her parents and two sisters. It must have been a long drive from their home in Lewes to Longtown, this was a time before the current motorway network existed. Even today, it is not a…
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The Hidden Tombs of Morfa Bychan
Auntie was away for a week with her girls and I was left unsupervised for a week. So I kidnapped Wilf the Dog and we set off in the motorhome for a couple of days to Pendine. It has a fantastic beach where Wilf can run his legs off, which he did. I hadn’t planned…
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Castles & Coalmines
Laugharne to Amroth Late September day in 2019, just a few months before the whole world was turned upside down by the COVID-19 Pandemic, we completed the next section of the Wales Coast Path starting in Laugharne. There are places that feel less like destinations and more like pauses in time—little pockets where history, landscape…
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Rhayader – An Invisible Castle
Did you know Rhayader had a castle? We certainly didn’t. Over the years we must have driven through Rhayader hundreds of times, always on the way to somewhere else or gong back home. When I was young and fit, able to run more than 20m, I’ve even played rugby a number of times against Rhayader…
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Llansteffan to Black Scar
It is always a pleasure walking along the Wales Coast Path, each turn of the path brings something new, often unexpected. It is also fantastic for my little brain to be outside and not sat next to a computer. Though this last statement is more relevant to the time we walked this section, as now…
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Stone Silence – Maen Madoc
Standing on an old metalled track just north of Ystradfellte and looking around it is easy to feel isolated and long way from anywhere. Surrounded by moorland stretching into the distance on one side and modern conifer plantations on the other and Fan Llia dominating the skyline to the north, it is easy to imaging…
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Shipwreck Sands – Burry Port to Kidwelly
My goodness, it’s been almost 4 years since Auntie and I last strolled along this beautiful stretch of the coastal path. So much has changed since then – both in our lives and in the lives of others. Retirement came for me last August after 44 years of nursing, and I finally have the opportunity…
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St Trillo’s Well
Not only does Wales boast the smallest city on the UK, St David’s; or the smallest cathedral, St Asaph’s, but we also have arguably the smallest chapel – St Trillo. And when we say small, think tiny. Sitting almost in the sea protected only by the concrete sea defences to the north and tucked into…
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Cwm Rheidol – A Welsh Rainforest
It’s late March 2023, and it had been almost 4 months since we last went for a walk, winter seemed to be so long this year. A long overdue weekend away drew us to Pontarfynach or Devil’s Bridge. A small village set above a steep and narrow Cwm Rheidol west of Aberystwyth. The Afon Rheidol…
Travels With My Aunt
Random notes on the travels of a Welshman who has been allowed out to play after finishing his chores. OK so I don't travel with my Aunt, but I am usually under the adult supervision of my long suffering wife.
Travels With My Aunt 