Category: Wales
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Ramsey Island
So leaving Aunty at home, the Pembroke coast became a boys playground for a week. My old mucker Paul, from here on known as Caulkhead (his preference for a moniker in the blog- he comes from The Isle of Wight which explains a lot) took the caravan to St Davids for the week. One of…
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Whiteford Lighthouse
It rained overnight, and threatened more during the morning, but luckily it didn’t materialise until the end of our walk this morning. On the norther coast of Gower is a fantastic nature reserve, now in the stewardship of the National Trust. But the nature reserve was not the main focus, but an unusual lighthouse was.…
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St Cewydd
During the weekend while we were pretending to be Dr Livingstone and searching for the source of the Severn we stayed at a small and quiet caravan site at Disserth, right under a delightful old church. It is dedicated to St. Cewydd, who is said to have been one of the many saintly sons of…
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Afon Hafren – Mystery and Myth from the Source
The weather looked good for the weekend and so we made a second attempt to find the source of the Severn. OK it may not quite be in the significant realms of Livingstone and the source of the Nile, but all explorers have to start somewhere. After parking in the forest car park in Forest…
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A Welsh Breakfast – Welsh 100: No 43
Some of the Welsh 100 challenges are full of pain, but others are full of pleasure. This particular item on the list did turn out to be rather more of a challenge than you’d expect. Finding somewhere that would provide a breakfast with a Welsh twist was surprisingly difficult. It is easy to find breakfasts…
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Swansea Market – Welsh 100: No 42
Aunty and I were back on the Welsh 100 trail this weekend. Swansea Indoor Market has been at the top of the list for a while now, but we’ve never managed to pull it off. So with determination we drove west along the M4 towards Swansea. The Swansea Indoor Market is the largest in Wales,…
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Newport Transporter Bridge: Welsh 100 – No 41
As I was driving through Newport this weekend on an errand my journey took me past the Newport Transporter Bridge. This is not an unusual occurrence in itself, however on this occasion the tide was in and seemed to be pretty high. I just had to stop and take some photos with my iPhone –…
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Elan Valley – Welsh 100: No 40
It’s a little ironic that after the wettest December and January on record in Wales, that the three weeks before Aunty and I visit the Elan Valley there has been little rain. We would have loved to see the water cascading down the walls of the dams that make up the series of reservoirs in…
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Sand Dunes and Water Pools and Steelworks – Kenfig
What a landscape Kenfig has. Without realising it you are walking over thousands of years of history. All of it is hidden away under deep mounds of sand. Archeological evidence shows that there has been human habitation here from at least the Bronze Age. But the most successful time was between the 12 and 14th…
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Llanthony Priory
After our visit to Hay on Wye last weeekend we decided to drive back along the mountain road and down into Cwm Ewyas. This a narrow glacial valley hidden away between two steep ridges, with the Afon Honddu running along the valley floor. It is right on the border between Wales and England which runs…
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