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Keith & Kathryn Selfe - Preserving Anglesey 2 Glyn Davies - Photo Artist, 4 Brian & Fiona Thomas - MooBaaOinc 6 David Jenkins - Copper Mountain, 8 David Edwards - Ebb and Flow 10 Gerwyn Morgan - Plas Rhianfa 12 Alison Lea-Wilson - Halen Môn 14 Margaret Wood - Anglesey Rocks and Geo Môn 16 Kathy James & Ken Croft - Nature Bites 18 Kristoffer Hughes - Pagan Druid 20 Map of Anglesey 22 Anglesey Activities 24

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www.visitanglesey.co.uk Keith & kathryn Selfe

Keith & Kathryn Selfe - Preserving Anglesey

Anglesey is described as the “Mother of ”, dogs and a gargantuan pig. Talk about the “Môn Mam Cymru” in Welsh. It has always been a Good Life”! rich and diversified agricultural area providing, in days gone by, a vast array of staple crops to the more Then came the inspired decision. Kathryn began rugged areas of North Wales. Just take a look making jams and preservatives, using Keith’s palate at the ancient grain and flour mills dotted around the as quality control! He wasn’t too keen on the sweet countryside and it will give you an indication of the stuff but when Kathryn turned to producing literally, island’s productivity. breathtaking chutneys, Keith was in his element. So too were judges at prestige True Taste Awards, with But when Keith and Kathryn Selfe moved to Anglesey a Two Gold Star Awards for her Kiwi Jam, and a one with their family they had diversification and star award for Keith’s favourite – the aptly named productivity ideas of their own as to what this island Lucifer Chilli Chutney. To give you some idea of could produce. They established Carreglefn Nursery. how competitive these Guild of Fine Foods events are, it took 350 experts 34 days to blind taste 7,481 Kathryn is a qualified chef, and Keith, having been a products from 1600 companies – and Lucifer policeman for thirty years, including protection duty beat them all. And the awards from True Taste of the Queen Mother, had always been a very keen of Wales and Anglesey’s Tourism ceremonies gardener with “green fingers”. have kept coming.

“Our part of Anglesey, Carreglefn, near Amlwch, “Anglesey has certainly inspired us”, says Keith.“ has a balmy, Gulf Stream climate. It also has great Our children are Welsh speaking, it is a fantastic, safe seaweed with nutrients, and salt is always in the air”, place to be, and the nursery is ripe for expansion.” says Keith. “Things grow here when they shouldn’t. Already on the wish list is converting the garage into It is quite incredible.” a commercial kitchen, marketing their produce to local hotels, and hopefully a supermarket chain. Even more incredible was their decision to invest what they had in growing tropical plants and www.visitanglesey.co.uk produce - kiwi fruit, oranges, spices and bananas - in unheated sheltered poly tunnels, dominating a garden already well populated with ducks, birds, fish, 3

www.visitanglesey.co.uk Glyn Davies

Glyn Davies - Photo Artist, Menai Bridge

Prime Minister David Cameron’s wedding gift to appealing. Depending on how I feel, I know where William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of to roam.” Cambridge, were two books of Anglesey landscape photographs taken and published by Menai Bridge He prefers the western side of Anglesey where the photo artist Glyn Davies. It was an inspired choice, coast faces the Atlantic weather storm fronts, since the royal couple were already the island’s most providing turbulent clashes between land and sea, high profile residents. and the resulting wind sculptured sand dunes and patterns, bluffs, estuaries and changing light patterns. Glyn couldn’t believe it at first, thinking that the The unpredictable fusions of land and sea are wedding gift request was for someone working characteristic of his work. at Number10. Glyn, raised in Cornwall, is however protective about The irony is that Prince William, as a Sea King the whole of Anglesey, and as a keen conservationist helicopter pilot flying in and out of RAF Valley, would has locked horns with those who dare seek to have an entirely different perspective of the Anglesey change the island’s landscapes. coastal terrain, than seen by Glyn Davies through his camera lenses. He shares his visual experiences in print as well. His web site hosts a multitude of images, accompanied “The west coast of Anglesey offers me everything by a detailed blog, capturing in words his as a photographer, because no day is the same”, experiences, the moments, and the sense of says Glyn. “It is constantly changed by light, sea, excitement in producing powerful images of wind, weather and cloud formations. I will always Anglesey’s daily changing Landscape. look or go searching for somewhere which matches my mood on a particular day, and since Anglesey www.visitanglesey.co.uk does present such a variation of landscapes in a relatively small area, I am rarely disappointed. You can look at Bangor and the mountains of Snowdonia, and they could be obscured by black and grey rain clouds, but somewhere on Anglesey there will be a different light and climate. The contrast and variation in landscape and weather is extraordinary and 5 MooBaaOinc

www.visitanglesey.co.uk MooBaaOinc

Brian & Fiona Thomas - MooBaaOinc

Just in case you are wondering. The “Moo” police looking for illegal immigrants allegedly housed represents beef, the “Baa” is lamb and you decide underneath the restaurant floor. “We did find what the “Oinc” means. massive underground holes under the floor when we first came here. It was quite a shock, and so our Collectively, they represent the home grown produce project was a mighty construction challenge”, available in a recently opened farm produce shop, admits Brian. café and restaurant in . There were unused, unsafe lofts above the café, The shop was the brainchild of farmer Brian Thomas but in Brian's imagination it was the ideal space for and his wife Fiona. Brian has done his time on a restaurant . Another, even larger reconstruction farmers' protest lines against Irish beef imports, challenge … but Brian is nothing if not defiant. the low prices paid by supermarkets and meaner All he needed now, was someone to cook! milk prices. He endured the Foot and Mouth crisis in 2001, but he is a passionate man, and a champion of A young backpacker was looking to return home Welsh Black cattle, which he breeds with Welsh Lamb to Anglesey with his young family. And as a now at his two Llannerch-y-Medd farms. celebrated Michelin champion, and a Gordon Ramsey scholarship winning chef, Aled Williams, “The specialist butchers on the island gradually formerly of everywhere - Sydney, New York, Ynyshir closed down against supermarket competition”, Hall Machynlleth - was inspired by the Brian and says Brian. “That led to “Farmers' Markets” all over the Fiona dream of not only bringing the “Farm to Town” island, but they were one day affairs and didn’t really in the shop, but their ambition of bringing “Farm to work or pay the way. Farm Shops came along, with Fork” in a restaurant. permanent premises, so that at least you stood a chance of competing with the big stores. And, as There was room enough upstairs to house the I am a proud and defiant Anglesey man, if I could ambition and that was the birth of the Cennin (Welsh draw customers away from the big boys with better for leek) restaurant. Aled had been a long standing produce, then I was happy – very happy.” admirer of local produce. This was his inspiration, and the obvious benefits of helping local producers, and So “MooBaaOinc”, a butchery and local produce returning to his home patch. shop, was born in a Beaumaris shop premises that housed an Indian Restaurant, once raided by the www.visitanglesey.co.uk 7 Parys Mountain, Amlwch Mynydd Parys, Amlwch

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David Jenkins Copper Kingdom, Amlwch

David Jenkins is very much a mining archaeology extremely challenging working conditions. Max enthusiast, and there is nothing more he likes to Boyce’s colliery steel, pick and shovel had not yet do but travel from his Snowdonia home and spend been invented. hours in the shafts and tunnels of Amlwch’s Parys mountain. This is not born of inspiration, it is a By strategically and systematically digging a pattern passionate dedication for him, and fellow members of exploratory new shafts, one Rowland Pugh, of the Parys Underground Group. a miner, discovered copper ore for the owner, Sir Nicholas Bayley.. He was rewarded with a bottle of There is also nothing more he would like better whisky and a rent-free cottage for a year. That was than to invite you to share his zeal by visiting the the shrewdest investment in Anglesey history. mountain heritage trail and also the Copper Kingdom mining and maritime centres on the Porth Amlwch There are maps of the tunnels and workings, shafts quayside. The exhibition includes a state of the art and vents, which make the London Underground a touchscreen - kids will love it! simplistic navigational experience.

With some justification, they claim, that here, in But the relatively crude methods of extraction the sleepy postcard sea resort of Amlwch, a major workings did have an impact. It is now a savaged contribution was made to the beginning of the lunar landscape, a colossal, but exceptionally Industrial Revolution in Britain. "Not only that”, says colourful monument to an age gone by. It is already David, “we are looking at a heritage of 4,000 years of a favoured filming location. The unique devastated mining, 20km of passageways and 120 shafts – landscape has attracted the producers of Dr Who, and it serves as a great introduction to our industrial Mortal Kombat as well as many documentaries. heritage.” But does it have future beyond historical and “Amlwch town was a major conurbation before industrial fascination? With contemporary world Cardiff/Swansea, was an important copper prices rocketing there may well be a future busy sea port on the North Wales coast.” for mining copper and zinc at Parys Mountain. .

Copper mining on Anglesey dates back to the Bronze He smiles.This is just part of the copper magic Age, but efforts to find and then mine copper in the of Parys Mountain at Amlwch. 18th century were hampered by floods and www.visitanglesey.co.uk 9 Afon Menai

www.visitanglesey.co.uk David Edwards

David Edwards - Ebb and Flow

David Edwards is a successful novelist, sacrificing a century and their harsh and dismissive treatment of personal millionaire fortune and leaving his family the island’s people. It is a tale of corruption, cruelty, to becoming one. After leaving Cheshire, he found murder, feudal exploitation and suffering, leaving the Anglesey, and now lives in a caravan on the luxury reader is no doubt that David Edwards has adopted chalet park of Plas Coch, rubbing shoulders with Anglesey as his own. Premiership footballers, rugby league players and Cheshire weekend retreaters. “I find the tranquillity of Anglesey so appealing. People here have time for each other and that All his possessions fit into his car, not that he cares seems to be ingrained in the culture. There’s the for material matters these days. He is content with a lack of cars as well, and always something to dis- new family, and is building or converting a new home cover. It is a different place, almost a foreign place. at Brynsiencyn, overlooking the Menai Strait. A two hour drive from the big English cities, and you find yourself in a different country not county. A congenial and thoughtful conversationalist, he It is a joy to be here. brims with excitement when talking about Anglesey. To say that he has embraced the island would be an “And of course there is the . Visiting understatement. He has totally immersed himself in English friends are puzzled or unsettled by it, but I tell local historical date and events for his novel “Ebb and them the reason people are speaking in Welsh, is be- Flow.” He finds it inspiring to be living close to the cause they are Welsh!” Strait and the site where the Romans invaded Anglesey and slaughtered the defending Druids. So it comes and no surprise to hear that David Edwards is learning the language. His first novel, written under his pseudonym Jack George Edmonson, was a best seller. “The Sun www.visitanglesey.co.uk Sharer” was explicit in its examination and questioning of marriage, affairs, and material superficiality.

“Ebb and Flow” is also based on relationships, or rather the bitter rivalries between the wealthy English land owning barons of Anglesey in the eighteenth 11 Plas Rhianfa

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Gerwyn Morgan - Plas Rhianfa

Gerwyn Morgan commutes to his place of work on Little wonder that Gerwyn Morgan beams with pride Anglesey from his Swansea home. He is a relative as he roams through the 16 bedroom palatial main newcomer to the island and is in charge of Plas building. Rhianfa, Anglesey’s newest hotel. “It has been an achievement”, says Gerwyn, "and it Plas Rhianfa, on the Beaumaris road, has majestic will help make people aware of what Anglesey has to views of the Menai Strait with a quayside of its own, offer in addition to the immense beauty, which is a helicopter pad, four acres of gardens, but has also staggering. The core business at Plas Rhianfa will be regained a majesty of its own. exclusive use for weddings, anniversaries, and corpo- rate events. It was built for Sir John Hay Williams in 1849, and modelled on the Renaissance chateau of His wife manages another Clarenco property at Plas Chenonceau in the Loire Valley. He and his wife Cil-y-Bebyll in Pontardawe near Swansea. “We are spent ten years gradually creating a palace, with apart for most of the week, and that gives me a little no expense spared. time to wander around the island. It is deceptively big, and some of the natural amenities would It then entered a chequered period as a block of compare favourably with anywhere in the world. apartments and flats, until Beamaris architect Peter Bailey and his partner Vivienne Serene took on "Mind you I have had some peculiar moments. the challenge of restoring it to its former glory. I am not sure what people expect of Anglesey. Unfortunately ill- health interrupted the mission, I was asked by one couple if Anglesey had any and Plas Rhianfa was up for sale once again. supermarkets. “Yes”, I told them, “and we have Gas and Electricity as well!” Enter Mike Claire, the founder of retail furniture giant “Dreams”. Having sold his company he began a Would he move here? “Never say never”, comes the crusade with a new company Clarenco, of buying reply, "but Anglesey is definitely growing on me, and iconic and unique country properties, and turning though Plas Rhianfa is where I work, it does not feel them into prestige hotels. It wasn’t long before Plas anything like a work-place.” Rhianfa came on the radar, and the transformation and refurbishment, completed in just ten months www.visitanglesey.co.uk by local trades companies, is bewildering. 13 Anglesey Sea Salt Halen Môn

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Alison Lea-Wilson - Halen Môn

“I met David, my husband, when we were students at ideas, and whereas there was only one other Sea Bangor University.We decided to live on Anglesey Zoo in the UK when we started, there were 30 by the because, quite simply, we loved the area and, it has time we finished. We knew had to find something to be said, was slightly more affordable than the else in order to survive. mainland. Student days have not changed, and we were always short of money. So we started trading The answer was all around us. We boiled a saucepan as shellfish fish and game wholesalers from our of Anglesey sea water on the Aga, and salt crystals unrefrigerated Morris 1000 van, growing and taking began to appear. It was a defining moment. David oysters and winkles to Blackpool and bringing wet then won a Winston Churchill Memorial Scholarship, fish back. There were some pretty hairy moments, allowing him to travel and study salt making in Japan, especially if the van broke down. All our marketing New Zealand and French Polynesia. was done from a 'phone box down the road. On his return Halen Môn – Anglesey Sea Salt - with It did seem that all the people we met in our part David at the helm, was born. Five years ago, we of Anglesey were sea inspired, and that probably decided that we could no longer sustain the Zoo and fashioned our lives. A large building at Brynsiencyn the Salt business. We decided to sell the Zoo, which came on the market, and though I tried to hide my was a huge emotional wrench. pregnancy, a friendly bank manager did grant us a loan to buy the property. We didn’t have the foggiest Halen Môn is now distributed world wide. It is found idea what to do with it. So for a while it became an in restaurants and recipes everywhere, and acclaimed art, local crafts and pottery gallery. But we did have by chefs and catering gurus and leading shop chains. an aquarium outside and we began lobster farming, President Obama likes it too. which attracted interest. We bought some more tanks, which eventually developed into the Anglesey The sceptics and cynics have been silenced by our Sea Zoo. We hadn’t planned anything like that, we salt. Anglesey provided and inspired, and I cannot just fell into it. think of anywhere else I would rather be.”

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www.visitanglesey.co.uk Margaret Wood

Margaret Wood - Anglesey Rocks and Geology

You’d find it difficult to come across a more Geo Môn’s building is an interactive centre, full of enthusiastic Anglesey enthusiast than Margaret dinosaur puzzles, historical games, the shipwreck Wood at the Geo Môn centre in the port of Amlwch. stories of St Patrick, his cave and church, but the main thread is explaining the shape of our world. Breathlessly and breathtaking, she enthusiastically traces the geological and evolutionary volatile “The glorious Anglesey coastal path, all 125 miles beginnings of Anglesey, a journey through four of it, is invaluable to us, because people see so many eras and twelve geological periods. It may have different landscapes, formations, colours, rocks and happened a few hundred million years ago, but each one tells a story of Anglesey’s formation. There the residual rocks discovered on the island show are brilliant trails and tours to fascinate all ages,” says that the geological turbulent birth of Anglesey was Margaret. 60 degrees south of the Equator, and it is now 54 degrees north of it. Is that not amazing? She is especially proud of the Geo Clock outside the Old Watch Tower featuring all of Anglesey’s rocks It is a special tectonic island, born of eruptions, through the ages. seismic shifts of oceans, countries and continents. With a visual computer display of earth’s turbulent Margaret Wood had to retire from her official duties evolution at the Geo Môn watch tower being a as a geologist with the Countryside Council for fascination for visitors, especially school children. Wales. She wasn’t keen on the idea at all but this “We’ve done that at school”, they say, but visiting enthusiastic mother of four has since dedicated her here it all becomes reality with clarity. “I show them time to explaining how Anglesey was formed to all Scotland bashing Wales, and Wales bashing Scotland generations on the Amlwch quayside. in the great geological activity periods, and that does get them going”, says Margaret, who’s fascination It is a story worth telling and a story worth hearing. with this part of the world began during school holidays spent on Anglesey, picking up colourful www.visitanglesey.co.uk stones on the beaches.

Anglesey has the oldest fossils in the UK – from another period of course. “We have 800 million year old rocks embedded with bacteria”, she enthuses. 17 Ynys Lawd

www.visitanglesey.co.uk Kathy James & Ken Croft

Kathy James & Ken Croft - Nature Bites

South Stack on the north Western tip of Anglesey is visitor. Unbelievable! I also remember the gray cat something of a holy grail for ornithologists. So, for bird from the Scilly Isles here as well in 2001.” Ken Croft to be crowned the “Birdman of Anglesey” is some accolade, but thoroughly deserved. Ken writes the daily blog and the Nature Bites web-site is now attracting a loyal and healthy He and Kathy James have recently launched a following. company called “Nature Bites” which is largely an informative and daily on-line service for thousands of Like so many, Kathy used to come on holiday to people to find out what is going on in the reserve - Anglesey as a six year old, with her sea fishing father, which birds have landed, hatched, fed etc., - but they and has returned and settled. It is remarkable how also take groups of visitors to various parts of many have made the same journey after a childhood Anglesey to see what is going on there. holiday.

“No day is the same”, says Ken, “especially during “I saw a job with the RSPB on South Stack and was the migration seasons. fortunate enough to be able to “hop over the water” and be involved in something close to my main “I am not an artist or photographer, because that interest of conservation”, says Kathy, who moved would only get in the way of my binoculars", an to Anglesey from Nottingham. observing obsession which began in 1972 when he was watching Lee Trevino winning the Open Golf “South Stack is something of a holding post for Championship at Troon in Scotland. literally thousands of migrating birds”, says Ken, “ and the place is spectacular in its variety and “There were birds all over the Troon course, and I surprises. And let’s not forget the dolphins and didn’t know what they were and that triggered me porpoises – they too are regular visitors.” off, and I’ve not stopped learning since." For the Anglesey birdman, South Stack is a They have many exceptional days at South Stack, but spiritual home. Ken vividly remembers one. “It was June 3rd 2003, and I’d seen a Black Lark from Kazakhstan. I could www.visitanglesey.co.uk not believe it, it stayed for a week and 5,000 people came to South Stack to witness our unexpected 19 Holyhead Caergybi

www.visitanglesey.co.uk Kristoffer Hughes - Founder of the Anglesey Druidic Order

Kristoffer Hughes - Pagan Druid

Roam around Anglesey and you will notice signs “We walk on the same soil, and breathe the same air pointing to ancient burial chambers, tombs, sacred as the Druids did”, he says, “and when I look over to sites and standing stones – all revealing a past when Snowdonia, where I was born, that to me is a totally Anglesey was protected and controlled by the Druids. different place and another world. That little ribbon It is the ancestral home of British Druids. of water separates us”. When he leaves the island he is anxious to return. Anglesey is, perhaps, the oldest recorded place name in Britain. We have the Romans to thank for that, His books have been a massive success, but here since this is where the front line of Druidic Priests also lies an intriguing story. His publishers, Llewellyn and Priestesses fought and sacrificed their lives Worldwide, was established in 1901 by the late against the ruthless Roman armies of Julius Llewellyn George in Portland ,Oregon. As the name Caesar, with the savage and merciless battles suggests, Llewellyn George was a Welshman, born recorded by Tacitus. in Swansea, and the publishing house specialises in occult books. Kris Hughes became the first The Druids were the intellectual and spiritual class Welshman to publish with the American company. of the Celts. They were the mediators between the His latest book sold 30,000 copies world-wide. Gods and their people and Anglesey was the spiritual “Anglesey is a special and magical place”, he says, centre of the Druidic world. They were totally “it is in my blood”. connected to the land and its nature, and would defend Anglesey with their lives, and did. www.visitanglesey.co.uk

The Druids are a source of spiritual fascination and dedication to Druidic expert and writer Kristoffer Hughes who lives in , on Anglesey. He travels the world, lecturing, holding workshops, and explaining his love of Celtic heritage and culture.

Anglesey to Kristoffer, evokes the memories and tales of the ancient priesthood and the power and influence the Druids possessed. He hates leaving the island, because it is a special and magical place. 21 © Isle of Anglesey County Council

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Attractions Amlwch Copper Kingdom Amlwch LL68 9DB 01407 832255 Anglesey Circuit Bodorgan LL62 5LP 01407 811400 Anglesey Sea Zoo Brynsiencyn LL61 6TQ 01248 430411 Beaumaris LL58 8AP 01248 810361 Beaumaris Goal & Courthouse Beaumaris LL58 8PE 01248 724444 Cartio Môn Karting LL65 3PA 01407 741144 Foel Farm Park, Brynsiencyn LL61 6TQ 01248 430646 Country Park Holyhead 01407 760530 Holyhead Maritime Museum Holyhead LL65 1YD 01407 769745 James Pringle Weavers Llanfairpwll LL61 5UJ 01248 717171 Llynnon Mill Llanddeusani LL65 4AB 01407 730797 Marquess of Anglesey Column Llanfairpwll LL61 5NJ 01248 714393 Menai Heritage Menai Bridge LL59 5EA 01248 715046 Moelfre Seawatch Centre Moelfre LL72 8HY 01248 410277 Oriel Ynys Môn LL77 7TQ 01248 724444 Plas Newydd, National Trust Llanfairpwll LL61 6DQ 01248 714795 Pili Palas Menai Bridge LL59 5RP 01248 712474 Swtan Church Bay LL65 4ES 01407 730501 Tacla Taid Newborough LL61 6TN 01248 440344 Ucheldre Centre Holyhead LL65 1TE 01407 763361

Leisure Services Amlwch Leisure Centre Amlwch LL68 9PG 01407 830060 Beaumaris Leisure Centre Beaumaris LL56 8AL 01248 811200 David Hughes Leisure Centre Menai Bridge LL59 5SS 01248 715653 Holyhead Leisure Centre Holyhead LL65 2YE 01407 764111 Plas Arthur Leisure Centre Llangefni LL77 7QX 01248 722966 Llangefni Golf course/driving range Llangefni LL77 8YQ 01248 722193

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Experience the rich wildlife in the Wooded Valley of the recently enhanced Dingle/Nant y Pandy Local Nature Reserve or the new open Gallery at the Holyhead Breakwater Country Park that can be enjoyed by all.

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The project is funded through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. TAKE YOUR PICK..... The Isle of Anglesey is one of the Holiday Areas within Wales. Each area has its own Introducing Wales’s Holiday Areas distinct character.

Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Pembrokeshire – Britain’s Only Coastal National Park Vibrant Llandudno, the Victorian seaside gem with a history that goes back to the Bronze Age. World Rated by National Geographic magazine experts as the second best coastline in the world. With 186 Heritage Conwy with its rich maritime past. Waterfront adventure in Colwyn Bay.ear Y round breaks, miles of magnificent and varied coastline and over 50 beaches, there’s plenty of space for everyone. filled with family fun, good food, great walking, world-class theatre and a full calendar of exciting Choose between lively Tenby and Saundersfoot or peaceful St Davids and Newport. Perfect for events. All within easy reach of Snowdonia. outdoor activities or just relaxing. t : +44 (0)1492 577577 e : [email protected] t : 44 (0)844 888 5115 e : [email protected] w : visitllandudno.org.uk w : facebook.com/visitingllandudno w : visitpembrokeshire.com

Rhyl and Prestatyn Carmarthenshire – Carmarthen Bay Among the best recognised British seaside resorts. Fabulous award-winning beaches with a range of Stretching from Carmarthen Bay in the South to the Western Brecon Beacons in the North, discover family friendly attractions, events and activities. Walk the Offa’s Dyke path in Prestatyn. An hour’s drive Wales’ longest beaches, the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, the home of Merlin the magician from Merseyside and the West Midlands. plus Laugharne, Llandeilo, Carmarthen, Kidwelly, Pendine, Llandovery & the Teifi & Towy Valleys. t : +44 (0)1745 344515 / +44 (0)1745 355068 e : [email protected] Perfect fishing, cycling & walking. w : visitrhylandprestatyn.com t : +44 (0)1267 231557 e : [email protected] w : discovercarmarthenshire.com The North Wales Borderlands Short journey: very different place. Less than 20 minutes from , we’re just a short journey Swansea Bay - Mumbles, Gower, Afan and the Vale of Neath from the North West and the West Midlands. From the bustling shops and nightlife of Wrexham Unwind in the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, relax on award-winning beaches, and to the culinary delights of the Mold Food and Drink Festival to the world-famous Llangollen explore unspoilt countryside. Visit some of the UK’s best locations for walking, cycling, watersports International Eisteddfod. One hundred percent Wales on your doorstep! and golf, together with Swansea, Wales’ Waterfront City, home to Wales’ first Premier League t : +44 (0)1978 292015 e : [email protected] football team. w: www.northwalesborderlands.co.uk t : +44 (0)1792 468321 e : [email protected] w : visitswanseabay.com Snowdonia Mountains and Coast The outdoor adventure playground of North Wales that includes the The Valleys – Heart and Soul of Wales Snowdonia National Park, Lln Peninsula and Cambrian Coastline. A wide choice of quality A stunning landscape perfect for walking, cycling and many other outdoor activities. The Valleys has accommodation, attractions and activities – castles, narrow-gauge railways, golf, cycling, walking, a unique history, including a World Heritage Site, Wales’ largest Castle and Big Pit, the real coal mine award winning beaches, country parks, coastal path, World Heritage Site, Areas of Outstanding attraction. For a true Welsh experience, visit The Valleys, the heart and soul of Wales. Natural Beauty and Heritage Coast. t : +44 (0)29 2088 0011 e : [email protected] t : +44 (0)1341 281485 e : tourism@.gov.uk w : thevalleys.co.uk w : visitsnowdonia.info w : facebook.com/visitingsnowdonia w : twitter.com/visit_snowdonia w : visitsnowdonia.wordpress.com Cardiff, Capital of Wales The capital of Wales has unique attractions, top-class entertainment – and quality shopping with Mid Wales and the Brecon Beacons a difference. Cardiff Castle, the Millennium Stadium, National Museum Cardiff, the Wales Millennium Step into fabulous walking country right on your doorstep. Two National Trails and a National Park, Centre and brand new Doctor Who Experience combined with Cardiff Bay offer indoor and outdoor charming spa and market towns and outdoor pursuits in outstanding scenery. Home to Hay Literary entertainment for everyone. Festival and Brecon Jazz, events throughout the year make this a destina tion for all seasons. t : +44 (0)29 2087 3573 e : [email protected] t : +44 (0)1874 622485 e : [email protected] w : visitcardiff.com w : exploremidwales.com The Glamorgan Heritage Coast and Countryside Ceredigion – Cardigan Bay & the Cambrian Mountains The dramatic Heritage Coast and popular resorts of Barry Island and Porthcawl are fringed by lovely Some of the UK’s best coast and countryside to explore on foot or horseback, by bike or boat. Vale and Bridgend countryside and green hills. Discover the special character of an area steeped in Natural beauty from dolphins and red kites to waterfalls, woods and open moors. Enjoy good food, history – and it’s close to Cardiff, Wales’ cosmopolitan capital. traditional festivals and unique events as well as award winning beaches and resorts, including t : +44 (0)1446 704867 t: +44 (0)1656 786639 colourful Aberaeron harbour and Aberystwyth, the ‘cultural capital of Wales’. e : [email protected] e : [email protected] t : +44 (0)1970 612125 e : [email protected] w : visitthevale.com w : bridgendbites.com w :www.discoverceredigion.co.uk w: facebook: discoverceredigion

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For FREE copies of any THREE Holiday Area brochures please tick the appropriate boxes and send ACTIVITIES FOR ALL to:Visit Wales, Dept N01, PO Box 1, Cardiff CF24 2XN Wales is the UK’s activity capital. Find out more with the help of these FREE action-packed guides and take a look at the websites. Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Rhyl & Prestatyn Fishing The North Wales Borderlands With endless coastline and countless rivers and lakes it’s no wonder Wales is an angler’s paradise. Snowdonia Mountains & Coast/Eryri Mynyddoedd a Môr www.fishing.visitwales.com Mid Wales & the Brecon Beacons Ceredigion – Cardigan Bay and the Cambrian Mountains Golf Wales Pembrokeshire The secret’s out! More and more players are discovering and thoroughly enjoying Golf as it should Carmarthenshire – the Garden of Wales be’ in Wales. Swansea Bay, Mumbles, Gower, Afan & the Vale of Neath www.golfasitshouldbe.com The Valleys – Heart and Soul of Wales Cardiff For FREE copies of any of the activity guides please tick the appropriate boxes and send to: The Glamorgan Heritage Coast & Countryside Visit Wales, Dept PO1, PO Box 1, Cardiff CF24 2XN

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Llwybr Arfordir Cymru Wales Coast Path

Mae Llwybr Arfordir Cymru – sy’n 870 milltir o hyd – yn barod i’w archwilio. Gan ymestyn o’r ffin rhwng Cymru a Lloegr yng nghyffiniau CAERGYBI LLANDUDNO Caer yn y gogledd, i Gas-gwent yn y de, HOLYHEAD RHYL dyma’r llwybr arfordirol di-dor hiraf Y FFLINT drwy’r byd. FLINT CAER BANGOR Ar hyd y Llwybr mae yna olygfeydd godidog, o CHESTER CAERNARFON glogwyni uchel i draethau tywodlyd. Mae hefyd yn cynnig sawl awyrgylch gwahanol, o ddinasoedd mawr i borthladdoedd pysgota bychain. Bydd y Llwybr yw apelio at ymwelwyr a NEFYN thrigolion lleol fel ei gilydd, gan helpu pawb PORTHMADOG i fwynhau ffordd iachach o fyw trwy wneud mwy o ymarfer corff. Ei nod hefyd yw dod ABERSOCH HARLECH â manteision economaidd i ardaloedd arfordirol. ABERDARON ABERMAW BARMOUTH Caiff y gwaith o greu a gwella Llwybr Arfordir wCymru ei gydlynu gan y Cyngor ABERDYFI Cefn Gwlad a’i ariannu gan Lywodraeth ABERDOVEY Cymru, Cronfa Datblygu Rhanbarthol Ewrop ac awdurdodau lleol arfordirol. www.llwybrarfordircymru.gov.uk ABERYSTWYTH The 870 mile long Wales Coast Path is ready to be explored. Stretching from the Welsh border near Chester in the north to Chepstow in the south, it is ABERAERON the longest continuous coast path in the world. The Path offers spectacular scenery from soaring cliffs to sandy bays... ABERTEIFI and contrasting atmospheres CARDIGAN from big cities to tiny fishing ports. ABERGWAUN FISHGUARD The Path is designed to appeal to visitors TYˆ DDEWI and local people ST DAVID’S CARMARTHEN alike – helping everyone enjoy a PEMBROKE LLANELLI CAS-GWENT healthy lifestyle by ABERTAWE CHEPSTOW SWANSEA taking more exercise DINBYCH-Y-PYSGOD and bringing economic TENBY CASNEWYDD benefits to coastal areas. NEWPORT PORTHCAWL Work to create and improve the CAERDYDD Wales Coast Path is co-ordinated by CCW CARDIFF and funded by the Welsh Government, YNYS Y BARRI the European RegionalDevelopment Fund BARRY ISLAND and the coastal local authorities. www.walescoastpath.gov.uk Photographs © Crown copyright (2012) Visit Wales

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Dylunio/Design - Stephen Edwards & Stephen Jones, Adain Graffeg / Design Section, Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn / Isle of Anglesey County Council

Cefnogwyd gan/Endorsed by - Destination Anglesey Partnership (DAP)

Ysgrifen/Editorial - Martyn Williams, Cardiff

Ffotograffiaeth/Photography - © Glyn Davies / glyndavies.com, © Stuart Campbell © Visit Wales,BRAND (ERDF) Ireland Wales Programme, Isle of Anglesey County Council

Hawlfraint © Copyright 2013 Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn / Isle of Anglesey County Council

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