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  • Beacons Way, day 5: Storey Arms to Craig y Nos

    Beacons Way, day 5: Storey Arms to Craig y Nos

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    Another cloudless day, another trip on the TrawsCymru T6 bus from Swansea to Brecon, followed after a break by the T4 to Storey Arms.  This time I’m on the other side of the A470 from Pen y Fan.  I’ve always wanted to explore the unfashionable west slopes above Storey Arms, and now’s my chance.  My…

  • St Illtud’s Walk: day 6: Y Creunant to Resolfen

    St Illtud’s Walk: day 6: Y Creunant to Resolfen

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    Andrew Green
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    We’ve now erased the dark memory of Day 5, back in November, and today the daylight hours are reassuringly long.  So C and I feel up to tackling another inter-valley stage of the Walk, from Y Creunant to Resolfen.  We should have done this as the coda to the last stage, but exhaustion and fading…

  • Sarn Helen, end to end

    Sarn Helen, end to end

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    Andrew Green
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    Several stretches of Roman road in Wales are labelled ‘Sarn Helen’.  The one Tom Bullough sets out to walk, in a roughly straight line except for a lurch eastward to Brecon Gaer, is the road that leads from the fort at Nidum (Neath) to Canovium (Caerhun, near Conwy).  He has recorded his trip in a…