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Travelling through North Wales reveals a landscape where industrial heritage, from the slate quarries of Snowdonia to the coal mines of Wrexham, sits alongside centuries of rural tradition. The area e

A tasting menu, a gourmet pub dinner and a fresh-from-the farm lunch – Lorna Maybery’s foray into Wales finds great food and splendid scenery at the edge of Eryri National Park

The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

1 BLUESTONE, PEMBROKESHIRE, WALES Nestled in 202 hectares of hills and woodland in the UK’s only coastal national park, this resort has much to recommend it, whether you want a quiet couple’s spa retr

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

Our astronomical adventure in the hills of mid-Wales starts on an unlucky note. The autumnal sunshine of earlier has been swept away by a persistent drizzle rolling across the valleys and hilltops of