Roam Wales

06/02/2025

How beautiful is this photo of Raglan Castle? It's a great angle with the distinctive peak of Pen-y-fâl / the Sugar Loaf silhouetted behind the sunset and the Skirrid / Ysgyryd Fawr just to the right of it.

Whilst there are mainly rural fields surrounding the castle nowadays, back in the 15th and 16th centuries there would have been extensive deer parkland, orchards, fish ponds and water gardens, offering visitors a contrast between the managed park and the rugged Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacon mountains in the distance. You can just about make out where part of the water gardens would have been in the wooded dip between the castle and the fields in this photo.

Thanks to for this photo. Raglan Castle is open all year round.

https://www.visitmonmouthshire.com/things-to-do/raglan-castle-cadw-p1502721

05/02/2025

Here's a map with a difference. Titled "Empty Wales", this map depicts hundreds of yellow squares - each one representing a 1 kilometre square.

The interesting part?

Each of these squares contain not a single building inside. As incredibly eerie as it is astounding!

26/11/2024

I’ve tried a few times to get a decent photo of Tenby but the sun has had other ideas every time. Here’s one I took at dawn last month.

29/10/2024

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09/07/2024

20/06/2024

03/03/2024

If you are a visitor to Wales you can’t avoid it. Driving around the nation you wouldn’t fail to notice the words ARAF painted on the tarmac. A brilliant post in a Welsh Facebook group explaining the meaning of Araf on Welsh roads to visitors to the country has gone viral on social media. The [....