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2013 January
Posted on 28/01/13, filed under Days Out, Festivals, Wales | Comments Off

Discover some of Wales’s oral traditions as part of National Storytelling Week at 15 CADW sites across Wales. Wales is renowned worldwide for its literature and poetry, and you will be able to experience the best of Welsh tale spinning at these events held in… Continue reading
Posted on 23/01/13, filed under Arts and Literature, Castles, Days Out, Wales | Comments Off



Cadw is the Welsh Government’s historic environment service working for an accessible and well-protected historic environment for Wales.

Fact, fiction, fable or folk tale? We love a good story in Wales and boy do… Continue reading
Posted on 22/01/13, filed under Accommodation, Hotels, Snowdonia, Wales | Comments Off

The TripAdvisor 2013 Travellers Choice Awards has named the Lauriston Court Hotel in Llandudno the best hotel in the world for customer service. Placing Llandudno firmly on the map as a travel destination. The hotel, which has 11 double and family rooms at affordable prices, was also 6th in TripAdvisor’s… Continue reading
Posted on 21/01/13, filed under Accommodation, Activities, Days Out, Guest Blog, Wales | Comments Off


Author: Watson Thomas
Watson is a Cardiff-born freelance writer who has written for everyone from The Times and the Independent Traveller to the South Wales Echo and Western Mail. Career highlight: going in search of (and finding) the Northern Lights in Norway.

St… Continue reading
Posted on 14/01/13, filed under Holidays and Breaks, Visit Wales, Wales | Comments Off
The brand new Visit Wales TV adverts start showing on TV sets across the UK today, but you can view them here first on the Visit Wales blog.
Our new advert for 2013 shows real Welsh couples talking about their favourite places in Wales,
and features the following locations:
- West Highland Railway, Dinas
- Portmerion
- Man V Horse