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  • Canu clodydd Blaenau Ffestiniog

    Canu clodydd Blaenau Ffestiniog

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    Andrew Green
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    Byth ers imi hala cwpwl o ddiwrnodau cofiadwy yn y dref ychydig fisoedd yn ôl, wrth ddilyn Llwybr Llechi Eryri, prin fod Blaenau Ffestiniog wedi bod allan o’m hymwybyddiaeth.  Rheswm amlwg oedd cael gweld Effi o Blaena, un o’r ffilmiau Cymraeg mwyaf gafaelgar ers hydoedd, yn y sinema.  Addasiad yw e o’r ddrama fonolog adnabyddus…

  • Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 5: Tanygrisiau to Llan Ffestiniog

    Snowdonia Slate Walk, day 5: Tanygrisiau to Llan Ffestiniog

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    Andrew Green
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    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 country’s two main concentrations of population without a long diversion into England.  Despite that, C1…

  • A curious traveller in north Wales

    A curious traveller in north Wales

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    Andrew Green
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    There’s an excellent collaborative research project in train at the moment, led by Bangor University, called European travellers to Wales.  Its workers are busy unearthing accounts by tourists – writers and artists – from the Continent who visited Europe between 1750 and 2010.  At the same time another project, Curious travellers: Thomas Pennant and the…