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It’s time to go through some fun Christmas traditions in Wales. In the days before Christmas, it was always customary to decorate your house with mistletoe and holly throughout Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. Mistletoe was supposed to protect the family from evil, while holly was considered to be a symbol of eternal life. Mistletoe was regarded as the sacred plant of the ancient druids and is now used to decorate...

All aboard! Your Christmas grotto ride awaits. Here in West Wales, we have some fantastic railways that take you across the charming countryside.

Join us at the most wonderful time of the year. It’s time for a Christmas shopping experience like no other in West Wales. Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire at Christmas time is a magical time to visit. The castle’s state rooms are decorated with greenery from their garden with a beautiful Christmas tree. It’s time for Christmas at Picton Castle.

Enjoy a wonderful day at Bwlch Nant yr Arian, up in the Cambrian Mountains to see the Red Kites being fed. This is a great day out for the family at any time of year. It is a beautiful area, riddled with paths for walkers and trails for cyclists, along with adventure play areas for the children. It’s time to enjoy kite flying.

The sun has returned so it’s time to get the trunks out and brave the water. With the warm weather shining down on us we get excited for the blue skies and charming wildlife that comes to Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. Whilst we look forward to bottlenose dolphins and puffins, it makes us think of the unusual wildlife in West Wales throughout the years.

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.