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A distinctive feature of the West Wales countryside is the ‘clawdd’. Translated it means hedge, dyke or embankment. Although the term really refers to our ‘stone hedges’ – stone-faced earth banks built as stockproof boundaries to fields or to divide land. Patterns of stonework vary from area to area depending on local styles and the availability and type of stone. The most common Welsh style has rows of vertically set stones with the...

What could be better than walking to a West Wales beach on a fine and sunny Sunday?  Not much! – but if the walk includes foraging for lunch under the watchful eye of an experienced guide and heading back to the woods to cook over a campfire then that really is a special Sunday out.

Hooray the sun is shining! Time to head to Poppit Sands in Pembrokeshire and breathe in that glorious sea air! Those more adventurous took to the sea for a paddle in their kayaks. There is nothing we love more on a sunny day than paddling at Poppit.

Colby Woodland Garden, South Pembrokeshire, is an 8 acre, National Trust garden set in a secluded valley with lots of lovely walks through meadows and woodland, leading down to the sandy beach at Amroth. The perfect woodland walk to the beach.

Explore Llanelli on a brilliantly sunny spring day. Carmarthenshire is much overlooked – generally, people head for Pembrokeshire, however, Carmarthenshire also has a huge amount to offer the visitor. There are spectacular coastal paths, tracks and beaches – not to mention a great shopping centre at Trostre Park. A little retail therapy before lunch, work up an appetite etc! It’s time for some leisure & lunch at Llanelli.

If you would like a spectacular yet not too strenuous circular walk, follow our path from the village of Moylegrove. The centre comprises a tumble of traditional painted cottages, grey stone chapels and two stone river bridges. Moylegrove is set in a most picturesque location on the Pembrokeshire coast, 6 miles south of Cardigan.

St David’s Day (1st March) is nearly upon us. It’s time to make some celebratory Welsh Cakes (pice bach, cacen gri, pice ar y maen). Traditionally Welsh Cakes were cooked on a bakestone or cast iron griddle and are sometimes referred to as ‘bakestones’. The bakestone or planc was heated on the open fire and used as a cooking surface.

How to say ‘I love you’ on St Valentine’s Day in Welsh is ‘dwi’n dy garu di’. If that seems a bit tricky, why not gift a unique and romantic Welsh Love Spoon instead? The hand-carved Celtic Love Spoon has a heart to symbolise love and Celtic knot work representing two lives intertwined.

What a wonderful day out we had on a crisp and sunny morning in January when we went to the Food Fair at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales in Carmarthenshire There is always something exciting to see and do here, whatever the time of year, in beautiful West Wales!

We like nothing better than a walk in beautiful West Wales. Take a drive through the Pembrokeshire countryside to enjoy a gentle circular walk by the Daugleddau estuary. Enjoy a lazy Lawrenny afternoon with us.