Carmarthenshire

New Year traditions in Wales are very popular. Every country has its own traditions that they like to stick to, especially when it comes to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and Wales is not shy of showing off its own custom practices.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many Welsh wedding customs have disappeared throughout the years, but some have evolved and are still in use today. Here in Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, we like to try to keep these customs alive, so take a leap into Wales: with 5 Welsh wedding customs.

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!