The annual Barry Island New Year’s Day Dip attracted more people this year thanks to an explosion of glorious weather. Our new year of 2019 dawned with a rare and unexpected purity, unobscured sunshine rising from the horizon and embalming everything gold. It had been solid grey for several days before, and fellow dog-walkers in […]
The Vale of Glamorgan coastline is a spectacular stretch of south Wales. A short distance from any large city, it’s a place of relative seclusion. You’re more likely to seek it out than stumble upon it. And as a destination for tourists or daytrippers, it might still come second to the more obvious allure of the […]
A-roads turn to B-roads, grow narrower and more remote, yet somehow continue to unspool on and on. It’s easy to think you might have taken a wrong turning somewhere. You sense the coast must be near but there can’t possibly be a castle, a college, an Arts Centre, at the end of all these roads. […]