Travels With My Aunt

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.

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  • Cardiff Bay in the Sunshine

    Last weekend the sun dragged the three of us down to Cardiff Bay. Since we first moved to South Wales over 20 years ago this once neglected corner of Cardiff has gone through a transformation. Then the bay was open to the huge tidal range at occurs in the Severn Estuary, leaving large expanses of…

    Paul Challinor

    July 26, 2014
    Butterflies, Wales, Wales Coastal Path, Wildlife
    Cardiff, Cardiff Barrage, Wales Coast Path
  • Moths and Butterflies

    There was so much happening on Caldey Island last weekend it wasn’t possible to include it all into the last post. Those of you who know me will be aware that there weren’t any creepy crawlies included, as Aunty and Number 1 daughter would call them. The island was awash with Meadow Brown butterflies, (Maniola…

    Paul Challinor

    July 10, 2014
    Butterflies, Moths, Wales, Wales Coastal Path, Wildlife
    Anania hortulata, Cinnabar Moth, Lasiommata megera, Pagagevaegeria, Small Magpie Moth, Small Skipper, Speckled Wood, Tyrian jacobaeae, Wall Butterfly
  • Caldey Island – Island Number 2

    Caldey Island – Island Number 2

    The caravan was out to good use again this weekend with a trip to Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Friday was a bit of a washout out as we ambled around Pembroke Town in the pouring rain, and so retired to the van to open a bottle of wine. No surprise there some of you might think.…

    Paul Challinor

    July 9, 2014
    Wales, Wales Coastal Path
    Caldey Island, Tenby
  • Offa’s Dyke – Prestatyn and the end!

    Well we finally made it. It was a relatively short haul to the sea and the end of the Offa’s Dyke path at Prestatyn, on the North Wales Coast. Over the past 5 years we walked all of the 187 miles of the path, and a few more when we went wrong a couple of…

    Paul Challinor

    June 27, 2014
    Wales
    Offa’s Dyke
  • Offa’s Dyke: Llandeglar to Moel Arthur

    Offa’s Dyke: Llandeglar to Moel Arthur

    If yesterday was about Llans then today it’s all about Moels. There are lots of Moels in north East Wales, and is a common part of the name for many hills in this area. A Moel is a treeless or bald hill. We started off just underneath Moel y Waun (Waun is a moor) and…

    Paul Challinor

    June 25, 2014
    Wales
    Moel Arthur, Moel Famau, Offas’s Dyke, Wales
  • Offa’s Dyke: Llangollen to Llandeglar

    A fantastic days walking on so many accounts, with such a wide variety of landscapes and wildlife to marvel at along the way. We started just outside Llangollen, with the wide Dee Valley at our feet, where we had finished last night and finished almost 15 miles later on the moors above Llangdeglar. For those…

    Paul Challinor

    June 24, 2014
    Wales
    Llandeglar, Llangollen, Offa’s Dyke
  • Offa’s Dyke: Moel Arthur to Rhuallt

    We woke to rain on the caravan roof this morning, and hoped that it would clear up. Luckily it did, and the rain held off for the rest of the day. But the cloud cover was low, and the light didn’t lend itself to sparkling photos, so thee aren’t too many in this post. If…

    Paul Challinor

    June 24, 2014
    Wales
    Moeal Arthur, Offa’s Dyke, Pencloddiau
  • Offa’s Dyke towards the end. Pontcysyllte to Llangollen

    I’ve left Aunty behind for a few days, and traded her in for a brother in law and a grumpy old jack russell. I driven the caravan to North Wales to finish the Offa’s Dyke long distance path. We started this in South Wales five years ago, but other things got in the way of…

    Paul Challinor

    June 24, 2014
    Wales
    Llangollen, Offa’s Dyke, Poncysyllte Aquaduct
  • Skomer Island

    Skomer Island

    I’ve wanted to visit Skomer Island for so long now, and finally we made it. In fact I’ve an ambition to visit all the islands around Wales. I’ve been to Anglesey, but that is too easy and so perhaps doesn’t really count. But Skomer is a real island. Skomer lies off the southern peninsula of…

    Paul Challinor

    June 14, 2014
    Wales, Wales Coastal Path
    Alca torda, Fratercule artica, greater Blacl-backed Gull, Guillemot, Larus marinus, Manx Shearwater, Puffin, Puffinus puffinus, Razorbill, Uria aalge
  • Worms Head

    Worms Head

    The sun finally came out at the end of the weekend, and what a difference it made to the rain soaked weekend. Rhossili Bay has been voted as one of the Top 10 Beaches in the world, and when the sun shines as it did today you can really understand why. The views along the…

    Paul Challinor

    May 30, 2014
    Wales, Wales Coastal Path
    Bury Holmes, Green Tiger Beetle, Rhossili Bay, Wall Brown, Worms Head
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