a festival in a beautiful location, away from the hustle, cocooned the gentle air of a West Wales spring, caressed by the breeze from the coast. Imagine wellbeing for body, mind and soul – yoga in ...

Fired up by the revelation of running and the freedom that walking without backpacks were given, we felt newly galvanised as we continued to head north, our next leg Hay on Wye to Welshpool. While ...

Turning away from the coast that we both love so much to head inland up the land border between England and Wales presented something of a challenge. No longer by the sea, and with a change in the ...

Civilisation has brought many challenges to many people. For us, as we left the wilds of the Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire coastlines behind us, our challenge as walkers was to seek out the pat...

Diversifying is often the way small businesses survive, adapting to meet customer demand. In the case of Bruichladdich, the journey from whisky to gin began with the distillery’s commitment to make...

Even at the end of our first day out of Cardigan, when I might have jacked it all in – when we were dusty, sweaty and with my feet in tatters, we were struck by the kindness of strangers. The occup...

By the time we reached Freshwater East, it was crazy hot. To an extent we’d got used to the heat (if that is a possibility in West Wales) – certainly we had learned from the start of our journey an...

If you’d asked us 12 months ago where we thought we’d be in March 2019, the answer would have been pretty different to the adventure we’re about to embark on. Our plan centred around selling 3,000 ...

One of the really outstanding things that struck Alex when he spent a week at the Bruichladdich distillery was the commitment to the past, to make do and mend, while at the same time, taking an inn...

Gin. It hasn’t always been the drink of the moment, but recent years have seen it not just come back into favour, but positively strut into the drinks collections of every self-respecting bar, pub ...