Tag: afon Tywi

  • Deep in Carmarthenshire

    Deep in Carmarthenshire

    If you’re in love with green – I mean chlorophyll-saturated green, the lightest and deepest greens that nature can offer – there are fewer better places to find it than north-west Carmarthenshire.  To wander through the fields and woods on the hills either side of the Tywi valley and its tributaries is to soak your…

  • Y Garn Goch

    Y Garn Goch

    Bûm yna am y tro cyntaf rhywbryd tua diwedd y 1970au.  Cofiaf ddilyn y lôn gul, droellog o wastatir afon Tywi, i fyny’r rhiw o bentref Bethlehem, cyn parcio’r car ar droed y llwybr.  Cofiaf hefyd y waliau cerrig sychion yn amgylchynu’r ddau fryn, yn ddiamddiffyn i’r gwyntoedd o’r gorllewin – neu’n waeth, gwyntoedd dwyreiniol…

  • Wales Coast Path, day 22: Ferryside to Carmarthen

    Wales Coast Path, day 22: Ferryside to Carmarthen

    We join J. at Swansea station, on the two-carriage train to Carmarthen. A British Transport Police officer paces our carriage. Maybe coastal walkers, with their clumpy boots and aggressive waterproofs, rank only just below Cardiff City fans on the BTP Travelling Troublemakers Index. But we reach Ferryside, a request stop, without challenge. It’s a cool,…