Rhossili
Stepping off the bus, I watch the couple and their dog go along the Welsh Coastal Path. I can see that the dog has been here before. He whimpered excitedly as the bus rolled down the quiet road, long before […]
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?” These famous words were uttered by Henry Morton Stanley, on finding David Livingstone, on 10th November 1871. As far as posterity was concerned, Stanley became more famous for these four words than anything else in his […]
The Colour of Winter
Brambles wrack my jumper and berries shrivel and wither back into the old wooden wardrobe of deep autumn hedge. Brown trees become the uniform colour of winter and the northern grey blanket spreads its heavy silence over the last blush […]
Looking Forward by Paul Jasper
The beginning of a new year is traditionally a hopeful time and despite the current restrictions on our lives, there’s real hope that we now have a way forward. The necessary lockdowns have meant less opportunity for us all to […]
Food & Drink Moves on Even During Covid
COVID-19 made 2020 a pretty miserable year for most but Welsh Country wants to look forward to 2021 and beyond and celebrate those businesses that have not only survived 2020 but diversified and expanded. We look at six businesses across […]
Lady Alice Douglas Pennant
Capel Curig sits on the A5, the road from London to Holyhead, and is one of the gateways to Snowdonia, a place loved by walkers and climbers. Typically, we were not there for the mountains and the rocks; it was […]
Sarah Siddons ‘Queen of the Stage’
The last time I wrote for ‘Welsh Country’ I made a self-acknowledged mistake, one of those senior moments that we become accustomed to as we get a tad older in the incisor. The subject of my latest bio, Sarah Siddons, […]
The Winter Garden 2021
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their […]
A Small Glimmer of Hope for Salmon
Why not investigate your local river or stream, contact Affonydd Cymru? Will we ever be able to control invasive non native species? When the salmon season ended on the 17th October surprising results have come in from all over Wales […]
Nye Bevan – 1897 to 1960
When he passed away on 6th July 1960, there was ‘an outpouring of national mourning’. Over 40 years later, in 2004, he was voted top of the poll in a clarion call of 100 Welsh Heroes, his role in the […]
Pentre Ifan
Pentre Ifan is one of the most impressive prehistoric burial chambers in the whole of Wales and this walk, unusual for Pembrokeshire in that it’s totally landlocked, links a visit to the spectacular stones with a scenic clamber onto the […]
Elihu Yale
In the graveyard of the fine parish church of St Giles in Wrexham you will find the substantial tomb of Elihu Yale, who was buried here in 1721 and has a world-famous American university named after him. It is large […]