Exploring Laugharne

We were back in Laugharne this week. It’s a place we’ve visited several times over the past year or so, but this time round you could sense excitement in the air as this small Carmarthenshire town on the Taf estuary … Continued

St David’s Day: castles, dolphins and an open mind

  It hasn’t yet been declared an official bank holiday, but St David’s Day remains one of the key dates on the Welsh calendar. It seems that David himself was a simple man, a vegetarian teetotaller whose most famous miracle … Continued

Public toilets in Wales… no longer very convenient

  As a wanderer who is often far from home when I feel the urge, I’ve been pondering what effect the forthcoming round of public sector cuts will have on public toilets. Sadly, when money is scarce (and let’s be … Continued

The art of stile

In my previous life as a local newspaper reporter (the South Wales Argus if anyone’s wondering), we’d spend the weeks leading up to Christmas frantically searching out stories that were not topical or time sensitive – articles or features that … Continued