WHEREVER one wanders around Aberystwyth, the peerless beauty of the National Library on its hillside setting above seems to...
All About St David’s – Pilgrims Still Progress To Pembrokeshire
, Things to Do, Heritage and History, South Wales, 0 PEMBROKESHIRE is a fascinating corner of south west Wales that has attracted travellers over many centuries. And the tiny...
NEWPORT has been inextricably linked with the sea and with shipping since medieval times, and the sometimes gritty façade...
PILGRIMS have trodden the path to the place known as the Lourdes of Wales for over 1,400 years. And...
Easy Living On Wales’ Canals: 2 (The North East)
, Things to Do, Canals and Waterways, Heritage and History, North Wales, 0 OF the myriad ways one can cross the border from England into Wales, few can surely be more romantic...
All About Nant Gwrtheyrn – Wales’ Valley of Mystery
, Things to Do, Culture, Heritage and History, North Wales, 1 THERE can be few places in Wales that exude an atmosphere of such utter serenity as Nant Gwrtheyrn ,...
Easy Living On Wales’ Canals: 1 (The South)
, Things to Do, Canals and Waterways, Heritage and History, 0 MOUNTAINS and canals would hardly be seen as going hand in hand, but one such waterway easing its way...
ALTHOUGH the vast majority of us have long lived in urban settlements, Wales still has this image of being...
COSMOPOLITAN Cardiff might have been Wales’ capital city only since as recently as 1955, but it sits right up...
IN THE SHADOW OF WALES’ MOST SPECTACULAR BRIDGE WALES has its fair share of iconic bridges; some simple stone...
WALES is noted as the country with the highest concentration of castles in the world, a symbol of its...
All About Amlwch – Wales’ Copper Capital Of The World
, Things to Do, Anglesey, Heritage and History, North Wales, 0 WALES’ northernmost town lies beyond the more touristy hot-spots on the Isle of Anglesey’s eastern coast, a gritty place...
FROM schmaltzy Hollywood classics such as John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley to real-life tragedies, Wales has been...
They’re Celts: Perfectly true, in that the Celts are recognised as being a people whose native tongue is or...
FORMER US president Bill Clinton, following a visit to the eclectic and energising Hay Festival in the enchanting border...
AN Eisteddfod? Isn’t that is all about druids in bed-sheets prancing about to harp music in a muddy field?...
THINK islands and your mind will drift away to sun-soaked paradises in the Caribbean, Greece or the south Pacific....
A bracing mountain walk and an eardrum-blasting kaleidoscope of aviation fuel and monstrously powerful engines jolting your senses might...
WHILE Wales’ heritage and narrow gauge railways get the lion’s share of visitors’ attention, the country also boasts an...
WALES has been indelibly linked in the imagination with trains ever since Oliver Postgate’s low-tech stop motion animation series...
