Tag: Coastal Path
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North Gower Coast
Aunty and I are still plugging away at the Wales Coastal Path, and still filling in a few missing bits along the south coast. This time it’s third time lucky with our attempt to complete the North Gower Coast, the last two times were rained off. So as part of our first outing with the…
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Baglan Burrows to Port Talbot – Wales Coast Path
We still have a few bits of the Glamorgan coast to fill in as part of the Wales Coastal Path, and todays 9 mile trek was one of them. In fact it was only 4.5 miles of the path but it was a there and back type of day. The sun was bright, even if…
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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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Keep away from the edge
Its been quite on the travels front, work and weather getting in the way. But after almost a month being tethered to the house because of the storms and rain we escaped today. The weather forecast for the coast was windy, cloudy but no rain. But the rain was lashing down against the windows this…
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Boring – but necessary? Portskewett to Redwick
The title says it all. After stating in a previous post that Aunty didn’t want to do any of the boring bits on the coastal path, I mistakenly persuaded her that the section from Portskewett to Redwick would be easy and at least we’d have walked most of the way from Chepstow to Newport. Well…
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It all has to start somewhere
I suppose we can’t really be accused of being organised. Wales now has a single coastal path that goes all the way from Chepstow in the South East on the border with England, west, north and then east to Chester on the North East border with England. The total distance is 870 miles. If anyone…
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