Passionate about South Wales - the best pubs, restaurants, hotels and places to visit

We visited the British Drift Championships at Llandow Circuit yesterday. I was surprised to see that one of the top drivers is Shane Lynch of Boyzone fame. The photo shows Shane drifting around the first bend. Nice car! It’s a Skyline R33 GTS-T. The photo was taken by Kee. Have a look at his Flickr [...]

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Quite an interesting review of the Fairy Hill Hotel and Restaurant near Reynoldston on the Gower from late last year. It’s a couple of years since we last had a meal there and we thought the same, good but not mind-blowing. The restaurant has a huge reputation and I guess that it’s always hard to [...]

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As someone who comes from South Wales and has a few web-sites about South Wales it seems really strange why the BBC always refers to the area as “south Wales” – without the “s” capitalised. For an example look at this article. This is obviously a set policy for South Wales because they do it [...]

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The Bwlch is a 1600ft mountain just north of Nantymoel north of Bridgend. It’s quite a climb up even by car but the views are well worth it. This photo show the final climb up as the road zig-zags from Nantymoel. From the top you have great views down into Treorchy in the Rhondda valley. [...]

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This has to be one of my favourite shots of Cardiff Bay. I took it in October 2007 at about 9 in the morning. The Bay is amazingly smooth and the reflections are great. The St David’s Hotel is in the background. The wooden structures in the foreground are called dolphins and were used to [...]

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Siani is a South Wales based blogger with quite a different perspective on South Wales. She seems to do most of her travelling around the area using public transport which definitely makes her blog stand out. Her recent post on Kidwelly Castle and the farmhouse at St. Fagans makes me realise how lucky we are [...]

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A few days ago I met up with some old school friends from Cowbridge in the Bear Hotel in Cowbridge. I was early and had missed the earlier opportunity of a free meal in Cardiff so I decided to go for a bar meal while I waited for my friends. I decided to go for [...]

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I know from some of the other South Wales sites that I maintain, that people new to the area are often stuck for a good online map.  I’m really into Google Maps at the moment so I’ve set up a page with an embedded South Wales map to help you along!  You can find the [...]

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