Find your perfect pitch in the Vale of Glamorgan

Nicola Sumner-Smith from Llangynwyd is a seasoned camper and has recently mixed work with pleasure by launching a series of new coastal campsites in the Vale of Glamorgan through her work with Creative Rural Communities. In a bid to encourage more people to pitch… Continue reading

Castles in the Vale of Glamorgan

If you’re visiting the Vale of Glamorgan for the Eisteddfod next week, then make sure you step off the Maes and explore what the area has to offer. Boasting more than 25 castles there are amazing stories and sights waiting to be discovered.

We asked Cadw to pick out some you might not know:

Family fortunes

Do leeks in kayaks, marmite drawings on toast and 10 foot high cauliflower sheep offer a real Welsh alternative to the great British Food Festival?

The first Wales’ Alternative Food Festival (aka ‘Feastival’) was held in Bridgend last year and they set out from the start to challenge conventions and to do things differently with food. Of course there were the usual trimmings that you find at food festivals, but also a few extreme oddities, probably not for the purists.

Win your face on toast

Take home a piece of Welsh Heritage

Name: Sian Roberts
Company: Coginio – Taste of Wales Cookalong
Favourite Welsh Food: Warm Welsh cake, straight off the griddle

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