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Wales Coast Path, day 6: Penarth from Barry

December 14, 2013 2 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 6: Penarth from Barry

At Bridgend we change to the miniature Platform 1A, gateway to all true adventures on the Vale of Glamorgan line.  It’s cold and the fog is thick.  The train creeps across the Porthkerry viaduct, unseeing and unseen. We leave at Barry – Barry Central to be precise, since like all respectable towns Barry has several […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 7: Barry from Rhoose

November 22, 2013 0 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 7: Barry from Rhoose

It’s a dry and sunny morning after torrential rain in Swansea.  C and I are drawn back irresistibly to the famous ‘Rhoose Point Transport Interchange Car Park’, this time with H as our companion, for a gentle amble east to Barry. Suburbia is the theme of the first section of this stretch of the coastal […]

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