Category: Wales
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Ffynnon Issui
Tucked down off the road near a sharp bend, and just above the Nant Mair Ffynnon Issui is one of the better preserved wells I come across in a while. Steps lead down from the road to a small dry stone alter enclosing a square basin which collects water running down from a stream in…
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St Issui Church, Patrisio
This is a long blog post but it is needed as this is an extraordinary church in many ways. Its setting, tucked into the side of a steep hill surrounded by farmland in seeming isolation provides it with a unique feeling of isolation. Though when this church was built there were many more people working…
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Canal to nowhere?
Isn’t it typical, after spending the week gazing out of the office window at wall to wall January sunshine the weekend brought the clouds hiding the sun. But that was not going to stop us. We panned a circular walk from Abergavenny along a canal and back. I like walking along canals, though Aunty less…
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Porth Neigwl – Hell’s Mouth
It’s taken me a while to get around to finishing this post. Aunty and I walked along this stretch of the coast on a cold and windy April day as soon as we could get away after the lifting of the COVID lockdown restrictions at the start of 2021. And it is now almost the…
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St Tudwal’s Lighthouse
On one of pair of small islands laying just off the southern tip of the Lleyn near Abersoch you can find the neat and small St Tudwal Lighthouse. The light was erected in 1877 to mark and protect shipping at the northern end of Cardigan Bay. By lighthouse standard sit’s not that tall at 10.7m…
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Allt yr Esgair
March 27th 2021 – a date that I may well remember. After a long, long winter the Welsh Government lifted travel restrictions, but only within Wales. The pandemic is slowing, the vaccination program is going exceptionally well and we are now rewarded with greater freedom, no longer restricted to “Staying Local”. Therefore, Aunty and I…
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Tanks to Ponds – Castlemartin to Bosherston
This section of our discontinuous circuit of the Wales Coastal Path is a continuation of a shortened version we did earlier at Easter but was such a bore fighting our way against a gale force wind we turned around at Castlemartin and went back to the car at Freshwater East. This time the weather was…
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Castle Field Hill Fort
The pandemic continues to restrict Aunties travels, and so walks have to be started from home. The other day we took a walk along the quiet and narrow lane behind our house. The age of the lane could be significant, with the banks and topping hedge towering above the road giving in places, giving it…
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Ffynnon Denis
The current COVID-19 pandemic has put a slight dampener upon our explorations over the past six weeks. Now that we are in our second, or is it third lock-down here in Wales it has restricted our horizons even more. this has encouraged us to look much closer to home, not by design but by necessity.…
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Diversion ahead – Borth to Aberystwyth
Robert Burns in his apologetic poem to a mouse after ploughing up it’s nest The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley, (often go awry) epitomises some of the sentiment of this short walk. No we didn’t meet any angry unhomed mice, but what should have been a nice amble along the…
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