Tag: Wales
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Freshwater West to Angle – Wales Coast Path
This section of the coastal path was one of the first section we completed, and now I look back it was a while ago in May 2017. But it hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s still there and remains a great walk. There’s a particular kind of hush that falls over Freshwater West the moment you step…
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New Quay to Llanon
New Quay is defined as the mid point of the Wales Coastal Path so when we reached here last year it was with some sense of achievement. Now we can concentrate on attempting the rest of the path. We started walking towards Llanon on a chilly and blustery August bank holiday weekend after a week…
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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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Summer House Point to Barry
I am nothing if not consistent. Consistently late with posting, that is. Autumn is closing and winter is approaching fast, and the dark short days we have in the UK provide an opportunity to look back. Not too far back, mind, only September, to a short walk Aunty I took along the coast between the…
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Come into the garden Maud – Welsh 100 No 54
The National Botanic Garden opened to visitors back in the year 2000. Aunty and I have visited here a couple of times now over the years and the gardens have developed a great deal in that time. Based on a Regency country house and garden there are new, old and unusual sights wherever you look.…
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Llandovery or Llanymddyfri
For a recent series of adventures that saw us tie off another two items on the Welsh 100 list we stayed just outside Llandovery, or Llanymddyfri, in the old county of Carmarthenshire. It is an area we not explored much, having bypassed it by going further west to the coast. But that changed this weekend…
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Water in the sky – Pontcysyllte Aqeduct. Welsh 100 – No 28
After the previous day the morning dawned bright with blue skies. Finally some sun on a Bank Holiday Weekend. The original plan was to try and get into a barge trip and float/sail/navigate across the Pontcysyllte Aquaduct. What do you do in a barge? Navigate I suppose, as there are no sails. You do float…
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Bronze Age Miners – Great Orme.
We are still on the Great Orme at Llandudno, but this time we travelled back almost 4000 years to the Bronze Age copper mine near the summit. This isn’t on the Welsh 100 list but we think it should be. In 1986 the local council approved a scheme to landscape the derelict site full of…
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The oldest cinema in Wales – 100 Things to do in Wales Number 15
Last weekend we went to the pictures. Not very noteworthy you may say, but there you would be wrong. This trip was to Wales’ oldest cinema in Brynmawr. It has shown films since 1911, and unlike so many other small independent picture theatres it is still drawing the crowds. It is now named after the…
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Sugarloafs and not a calorie consumed
The weather at the weekend shouted out that Aunty and me had to go out and climb a hill. The weather was that good. Not far from us is a great little hill called The Sugarloaf. Why? Well it apparently looks like a sugarloaf. Though very few people today have ever seen a sugarloaf, let…
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