Category: Wales
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Lido Ponty. Welsh 100 #58
As I write this I am looking wistfully outside as the rain spatters the window creating random river flows down the glass. It seems a long time ago now since Aunty and I visited the Lido Ponty in glorious sunshine earlier in the summer. Outside swimming pools have had had a hard time over the…
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Wild Swimming – Welsh 100 #57
What can yo do after walking 10 or more miles along the Welsh Coastal Path when it is 27C? Go for a swim of course. But, and this is the crux of the matter, according to Aunty you don’t go just anywhere. For this small exercise it had to be a wild swim in a…
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Llangollen International Eisteddfod – Welsh 100 No 56
Where else in the world can you come across more than 27 different nationalities in a small town with a population of just of 3500 souls outside of a Untied Nations Convention? Llangollen is the place you need to be! Every year since 1947 this small, beautiful town has played host to musicians and dancers…
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Llandanwg to Llandecwyn
Well the summer this year is one to write about. We’ve not had any appreciable rain for weeks now, except when we went to the Gower earlier. Even the mountains of Wales are looking brown and dry. This time we’ve managed a few miles along the Merioneth Coast, but only 9 miles, not the 12…
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Worm’s Head – Welsh 100 No 55
May and June this year has been almost wall to wall sunshine – except that iOS when we stayed on Gower for a few days with the intention of joining up a few sections of the Coastal Path in this area. Well the best laid plans of mice and men were scuppered by the weather…
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Strumble Head Lighthouse
Stumble Head Lighthouse is right at the end of the world, Well, that may not be strictly true, but it feels like it. For one thing, in order to find it you need to want to find it. No, I’ve not come over all mythological. It is a physical place. It just feels remote. First…
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Barley Saturday
Did you know that the last Saturday in April is Barley Saturday in Cardigan? This is important, it might be the Million Pound Question, so it could be worth remembering. Barley Saturday is one of those traditions that distinguishes towns from each other in todays homogenised society. And it’s a tradition that is based on…
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Tinkinswood Burial Chamber
Tinkinswood is a stonking big burial chamber by any stretch of the imagination. OK, maybe not in the same league as Maeshowe in the Orkneys, or New Grange in Ireland. But it’s still impressive. The only downside is that unlike the burial chamber at nearby Maesyfelin it does stand out as well. It’s not clearly…
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Maesyfelin Burial Chamber
Sometimes a view looks just right and satisfying. The solid silhouette of Maesyfelin burial chamber outlined against the sky and the rising sun on a cold and frosty Sunday morning felt right. I would like to say that I had walked miles for this lonely and unique view. But that wouldn’t be right. I had…
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How old is a tree? The Defynnog Yew
Can a tree really be over 5000 years old? According to some sources the yew tree in the church yard of St Cynnog’s in Defynnog on the edge of the Brecon Beacons might possibly be older than that. I’ve been wanting to visit Defynnog for some time now, and the weekend seemed like a good…
Travels With My Aunt 