In the southwest corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park, you can find the beautifully rugged area known as “Waterfall Country”. This is where many rivers run off the Beacons through…
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Wales
West Wales has an innate natural beauty with its dramatic coastline and some of the world’s best beaches. Inland, the countryside ranges from rich farmland and wooded valleys to wild moors…
Due to the continued travel restrictions many of us are rediscovering places closer to home and looking at them in a new light. We may not have fully appreciated the sheer…
There are a LOT of castles in Wales, there are actually over 600. Although, many of these are now nothing more than grassy mounds with a few protruding stones there are…
Tucked away in a secluded wooded landscape, but only three miles outside of Aberystwyth in Mid Wales is Nanteos Mansion, a grade 1 listed country house hotel.…
The Rhondda Valley was once one of the world’s most important coal mining region. 53 collieries dotted the blackened industrial landscape of the Rhondda valleys but post-war decline ensued and the…
Every year our little town in Porthcawl, South Wales (population 16,000) holds an annual Elvis Festival. This is now one of the biggest Elvis festivals in the world attracting over 35,000…
