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We like to ride our bicycles…
One of our highlights of 2012 was our bike ride through Wales from Holyhead to Cardiff. Despite choosing possibly the wettest week of the wettest summer on record to cycle 300 miles, we loved every minute. Well, maybe there were a few challenging moments like Sarah’s...
JOHN & SARAH TAKE ON THE DRAGON
We have decided that it’s time to explore the length and breadth of our little country called Wales. The best way in our opinion to do this is by bike. So on the 26th June Sarah and I will leave Graig Wen in the capable hands of our team and set off from Holyhead in...
Snowdonia’s Answer to Willy Wonka
We are lucky to have an award-winning artisan chocolatier living nearby in Llan Ffestiniog. Cathryn Cariad works out of her Victorian farmhouse kitchen overlooking the Moelwyn mountains. She conjures up all sorts of delicious and daring flavour combinations from...
Route 8 and rail
Yesterday was one of those days that according to forecasts should have been wet and wild and turned out to be full of sunshine and smiles. Anyhow we decided that a day on the bikes was in order. After cooking breakfasts for guests we hit the road, the...
ROMAN STEPS WALK
It's always a pleasure to venture up the long narrow road to Cwm Bychan then walk up the Roman Steps. We followed a new route today but, as ever in the wild Rhinog mountain range, saw very few people. There were great balls of frogspawn in some of the puddles, just...
SUPPLIER OF THE MONTH: Ynysgyffylog Barn Farm
When we moved to Graig Wen in September 2007, we didn't know a soul round here. Now we have the pleasure of working and playing with all kinds of local people who we can count on through thick and thin. You just never know when you're going to need a tray of eggs,...