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15 Mai 2026, diwrnod hanesyddol yn hanes etholaethol Cymru. Diflannodd, bron, y Blaid Lafur a’r Torïaid o’r sin wleidyddol. Cododd Reform o ddim i fod yn wrthblaid swyddogol. Daeth Plaid Cymru i rym, gan mlynedd ar ôl ei sefydlu. Toc…
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Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 8: Capel Curig to Bethesda
On the map today’s walk looks straightforward. The Trail leaves Capel Curig and moves east and then north to Bethesda, its final destination. Surely there should be no navigational problems this time? The worst we should face will be spots…
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Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 7: Penmachno to Capel Curig
If yesterday was Mountain Day, today is the Day of the Three Rivers, Afon Machno, Afon Conwy and Afon Llugwy. And because the Trail, on the whole, follows the course of the rivers, the going promises to be much less…
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Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 6: Llan Ffestiniog to Penmachno
M has left us for Cardiff, so we’re now reduced to a trio. Our taxi turns up on time today, and takes us back to Llan Ffestiniog. We leave the village and drop down through fields to make for the…
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Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 5: Tanygrisiau to Llan Ffestiniog
In my crueller moments I like to think that Dr Richard Beeching is still suffering in purgatory for his destruction of the Welsh railway system. He left it in such a state that you can’t travel by rail between the…
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Meinciau coffa
Os ewch chi am dro ar hyd Llwybr yr Arfordir tua’r Mwmbwls o’r gorllewin, oni bai eich bod chi wedi codi yn y bore bach, dych chi’n rhwym o gwrdd â llawer o bobl – cerddwyr (hamddenol a phellter hir),…
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Port Talbot, the novel: Jon Doyle’s ‘Communion’
Port Talbot has waited a long time for the novel it deserves. Now it has one: Communion, the first long work of fiction by Jon Doyle, who was brought up in the town, and still lives there. If you know…
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Whistler in Venice: etchings
By 1879 James McNeill Whistler was 45 years old and in a bad way. He’d won his libel case against John Ruskin’s accusation that he’d ‘flung a pot of paint into the public’s face’, but was awarded only a farthing…
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Geoff Dyer grows up
Geoff Dyer is one of those authors who never writes the same book twice. He’s produced around twenty of them so far, on a kaleidoscopic range of subjects, including the history of photography, India, Soviet film, the First World War,…
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St Illtud’s Walk, day 8: Afan Argoed to Margam
It’s taken four bus rides, via Swansea, Port Talbot and Pontrhydyfen, but by ten o’clock I’ve reached the visitor centre at Afan Argoed, where C. and I ended Day 7 in July 2024. I can’t really explain why it’s taken…