Canaston Wood

There was so much that I couldn’t cram into my blog last week about our trip to Pembrokeshire. Deciding what to include and what not to include was hard: everywhere we went (at least nearly…

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Four Go Mad in Pembrokeshire

About a year ago, I clicked a link in a marketing email from Holiday Cottages and ended up impulsively booking a week in Pembrokeshire. I didn’t know anything about Pembrokeshire other than the fact it’s…

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Chirk Castle

On our way back from Snowdonia in April we decided to stop off at Chirk Castle close to the Wales/England border. As National Trust members we definitely prefer to use the facilities at one of…

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The Art of Avoiding People: Penycloddiau & Moel Arthur

Don’t get me wrong: I like people. I’m just not a huge fan of going for a walk and being one person in a line of many people hauling themselves up a hill. You either…

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The Secret South of Snowdonia

This time last year, our trip to Assynt had just been postponed for five months due to the pandemic, and I was having a bit of a ‘holiday sulk’. To cheer myself up I rather…

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