“What the hell was that?!” “What?” “That!!!” Rachel’s never been one for creepy-crawlies, especially those that fly, even those that are as pretty as this moth that’s darting around the lamp behind the armchair, its shadow as skittish as a […]
Have you ever been committed enough to complete a challenge spanning a whole country? Tony Mair decided to catch a river trout from all 22 ‘counties’ in Wales; a mission that he eventually completed across several adventure filled seasons. Here […]
They’ve closed the bridge! By ‘they’ I mean, of course, the local council, and by ‘the bridge’, I don’t mean a bridge, or any bridge; I mean the bridge. It still surprises me how so many people, myself included, can […]
Rugby writer Huw S Thomas reports on the 15 Welsh sportsmen to have had statues erected in their memory Statues are in the news – and for the wrong reason. Sadly there is more discussion on their destruction rather than […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
