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  • Cysur mawr, yn y cyfnod hwn o boen a galar, yw ymweld â Glenys yn ei thŷ yn y Mwmbwls â’i olwg digymar dros Fae Abertawe.  Dyma ni’n dau’n cerdded lawr ’na amser coffi.  Rownd bloc y teras, tu heibio…

  • Most visitors to Syracuse stick to Ortygia, the tear-shaped island that was the original site of the Greek colony, and Neapolis, with its large Greek theatre and sculptured caves.  The Basilica di Santa Lucia is slightly off the beaten track,…

  • 1   Man on a mountain Caspar David Friedrich painted the work usually called The wanderer above the sea of fog in 1818.  Though it found little fame at the time, it’s long been seen as the quintessence of German Romanticism…

  • There can’t be many more walks more extreme than the one described by Rory Stewart in his book The places in between.  He takes us with him on a journey he made, entirely on foot, across the central regions of…

  • Pentref bach iawn yw Colfa (Colva), rhyw saith milltir i’r gogledd o Glaerwen (Clyro), cartref Francis Kilvert. Dim rhagor, a dweud y gwir, na hen eglwys, sy’n dyddio o’r drydedd ganrif ar ddeg, a ffermdy, oedd yn arfer bod yn…

  • It’s before seven o’clock in the morning, but it has the look of a dark day to come.  I glance out of my bedroom window overlooking the ruins of Llanthony Priory.  I can’t see the top of the Hatterrall Ridge…

  • I’ve had Ffordd y Bannau, the Beacons Way, in my sights for years.  I bought the guide written by John Sansom, the deviser of the Way, and Arwel Michael, but it lay on the shelf unused for a decade or…

  • One of my favourite paintings by Edgar Degas is Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando.  As well as being one of his boldest – it’s probably one of the most audacious compositions ever painted in the nineteenth century –…

  • The jaunty oil sketch may look charming, but it conceals an ugly story.  It was painted by a well-known Cardiff artist, Thomas Henry Thomas, after a visit he and three friends from the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society made to Grassholm (Gwales)…

  • The old Athenian playwrights were expected to follow their three tragedies for the festival of Dionysus with a lighter ‘satyr’ play.  The idea, it seems, was to take the edge off the horrors and traumas of the earlier dramas.  Kathleen…

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