Tag: Nantlle

  • In Nantlle

    In Nantlle

    These are torrid days.  On my way to the Mumbles shops this morning, on the shaded side of the road, I met an acquaintance walking with her stick and small dog.  She looked down at the dog, a pug with a facial expression of one with a long prison sentence still to run. ‘He’s as…

  • Snowdonia Slate Trail, day 3: Y Fron to Beddgelert

    Snowdonia Slate Trail, day 3: Y Fron to Beddgelert

    There’s no room for doubt. The Met Office’s app shows black clouds and two black raindrops, every hour from mid-morning to the end of the day.  Other weather apps say the same.  But we’re stoical, as we wait for the taxi to take us back to Y Fron for a twelve-miler to Beddgelert. The taxi’s…