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Wales Coast Path, day 65: Llanengan to Aberdaron

July 11, 2016 1 Comment
Wales Coast Path, day 65: Llanengan to Aberdaron

Same journey, same start point, but we’re now down to three, C, H and me, for our last day in southern Llŷn.  Llanengan seems a bit busier than yesterday, though it’s a quieter place than it was when lead was mined here (a chimney still stands above the village).  We walk down to Porth Neigwl, […]

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Wales Coast Path, day 64: Abersoch from Llanengan

July 11, 2016 0 Comments
Wales Coast Path, day 64: Abersoch from Llanengan

M has arrived from Yorkshire to join the three of us for today’s almost-circular clifftop walk.  We start with the same introduction as yesterday, train to Pwllheli (same affable guard), and the Berwyn bus towards Abersoch (same wild career along single track roads).  But this time we get off early, in the small village of […]

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Zennor in light

September 19, 2013 2 Comments
Zennor in light

Penwith is as far west as you can go in England.  At the toe of Cornwall, it’s a region that looks and feels Atlantic.  Its place-names are mostly Celtic.  Prehistoric remains lie scattered across its open granite landscape. Three nights we spent recently in Penwith give me the chance to taste the South West Coastal […]

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