Last Sunday saw us enjoy a typically varied day around Whiteford on Gower involving everything from migrant butterfly species to a military helicopter on manoeuvres from the nearby NATO summit. Even for this typically unpredictable stretch of coast that surely forms some sort of record yet it all kicked off Read more…
Lake Vyrnwy gives the impression of a place that is widely known but far less frequently visited. There can’t be many for instance who aren’t familiar with its classic landscape of thickly wooded hillsides and extravagant Victorian architecture, though I imagine most have never made the trek to witness that Read more…
Drive into Llangollen from the English border and it’s hard to miss the imposing ruins of Castell Dinas Bran. Sitting atop an outcrop of rock high above the Dee valley it’s widely regarded as one of the most spectacular sites in Britain and is a place that has always fascinated Read more…
A couple of weeks ago we dragged our tent out of hibernation and headed over to Pembrokeshire for a weekend of relaxation. Of course the word relaxation means different things to different people but for us it involved two days of walking and exploration. From our base on a small Read more…
Living directly beneath a prime Osprey migration route you’d think that we’d have been simply drowning in sightings of them by now. Instead all I seem to have managed are a couple of very distant possibles from the north Gower coastline and a quite impressive list of near misses. Some Read more…
Less than a week after returning from North Wales it was time to head off once more on Friday for a long weekend in the Cotswolds. Regular readers will no doubt note that this is a location that neither has a coastline nor mountains, an unusual departure from our destinations Read more…
Last time we camped in North Wales our tent was obliterated by near hurricane force winds, and that was the middle of summer! Needless to say we were slightly wary about pitching up this time around so instead chose to stay in a small cottage roughly halfway down the Conwy Read more…
When the weather in North Wales turns it really turns, hence Friday dawned drab, damp and extremely windy. Given the conditions it was clear that there would be no last hurrah for us amongst Snowdonia’s peaks so instead we headed north to the RSPB reserve at Conwy. I first came Read more…
The Aberglaslyn Pass has always offered walkers a dramatic mix of scenery and wildlife and even though the recent revival of the Welsh Highland Railway has rendered the old tunnels off limits, an alternative riverside path more than compensates. Back on Wednesday we set off from Beddgelert to tackle a Read more…
In the next week I reach the grand old age of thirty and for almost that entire span I had never seen the view from Snowdon’s summit. It’s not far want of trying either as whether it be by train or on foot I’ve made the pilgrimage skywards on numerous Read more…