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Wales Coast Path, day 13: Swansea to Mumbles

September 10, 2018 5 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 13: Swansea to Mumbles

This may be Day 13 in the geographical series, but chronologically it’s number 95 – Sunday 9 September 2018, and the very last stage of our Wales Coast Path journey.  We‘ve left our ‘home stretch’, one of the flattest in the whole course of the Path, till last.   It’s a route – along the track […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 79: Church Bay from Valley

July 28, 2018 2 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 79: Church Bay from Valley

Just the two of us today, to finish our circuit of Anglesey.  We get up early, plant one car at Church Bay and drive the other to Valley.  No cloud and drizzle this morning, just a balmy breeze and powerful sunshine.  For once I can’t avoid wearing my socially disastrous reversible sun hat.  There’s no […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 78: Cemaes from Church Bay

July 28, 2018 0 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 78: Cemaes from Church Bay

The driver of the Lewis-y-Llan 62 bus to Holyhead needs nerves of steel.  She takes the three of us at a good pace on the main road from Cemaes as far as Llanrhuddiad, and then turns off to Rhyd-wyn, down a long single track road with no passing places.  Meeting another vehicle would be difficult.  […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 77: Porth Amlwch to Cemaes

July 28, 2018 0 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 77: Porth Amlwch to Cemaes

Have we made a mistake?  After a month of the driest, hottest weather since the summer of 1976, C and I chosen today to start our final, three-day campaign of the Wales Coast Path, from Porth Amlwch to Valley, on a less than tropical day.  It’s dark, drizzly and clouds are so low that Cadair […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 86: Newborough to Brynsiencyn

May 31, 2018 1 Comment
Wales Coast Path, day 86: Newborough to Brynsiencyn

It’s our last day, and a chance to fill a missing link, between Newborough and Brynsiencyn, the furthest point west we managed last year.  We leave the car in the Llyn Rhos Ddu car park south of Newborough.  In its centre is a metal sculpture by Ann Catrin Evans of several ‘gafrod’ or bunches of […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 81: Trearddur Bay to Four Mile Bridge

May 31, 2018 1 Comment
Wales Coast Path, day 81: Trearddur Bay to Four Mile Bridge

After Holy Island north, today three of us are tackling Holy Island south – a much shorter and less strenuous trek.  It’s a cooler and cloudier day.  We start from Trearddur Bay.  Just as it took half an hour to get into Trearddur from the north, it takes half an hour to leave it walking […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 80: Valley to Trearddur Bay

May 30, 2018 3 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 80: Valley to Trearddur Bay

Just the two of us today.  Valley to Trearddur Bay direct is no more than three miles.  Valley to Trearddur Bay via Holyhead Mountain, taking in a circuit of the northern half of Holy Island, is sixteen miles, and that’s our route.  We’re lucky to have a day of continuous sun, from start to finish. […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 85: Malltraeth from Newborough

May 30, 2018 1 Comment
Wales Coast Path, day 85: Malltraeth from Newborough

In Sgwâr Bodorgan in the centre of Aberffraw we’re waiting for Gwynfor.  After twenty minutes we’re still waiting.  We’re on the point of giving up and taking two cars when a bus turns up – the original vehicle had broken down – and we’re bowling along the road south. Today we have a second guest, […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 82: Valley to Rhosneigr

May 29, 2018 1 Comment
Wales Coast Path, day 82: Valley to Rhosneigr

It’s still and warm as we deliver C to the railway station at Rhosneigr for the absurdly long train journey back to Swansea (including an enforced bus journey between Cwmbran and Newport).  Someone has scratched the words ‘… is shit’ as a predicate to the platform sign for Arriva Trains Wales, the unlamented rail franchise […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 83: Rhosneigr to Aberffraw

May 29, 2018 0 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 83: Rhosneigr to Aberffraw

Rhosneigr is a bloated seaside village, with some forgettable seafront houses, but once past them we’re walking south into the morning wind on a long, dune-edged beach, Traeth Llydan.  The sun has gone today and the distant mountains are reduced to grey silhouettes. A wind surfer races across the water of the bay.  Reaching its […]

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