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Many people will have seen old photographs and postcards of ladies using the bathing machines at Brighton and Margate. What is less well known is that Wales was also at the vanguard of this fashion, not only in North Wales resorts such as Llandudno and Rhyl, but also...

St Teilo’s Church at St Fagan’s Museum on the day that one of the Cardiff Churches holds its annual Plygain Carol Service. Plygain is a traditional Welsh language church service held in midwinter in which individuals, duets, trios, families and choral groups come...

Visitors to Caerphilly Castle will read an information notice in the north garderobe on the first floor of of the Inner East Gatehouse stating that the waste produced would empty into the moat. As the lower exit is over 2 metres from the moat, this would have been...

Following the requisite Act of Parliament, the Rhymney Railway (RR) company was incorporated on 14th July 1854 with the intention of transporting iron and coal from the Rhymney Valley to the docks at Cardiff and Newport. It was supported by the Trustees of the Bute...

While staying in my second home at St Suliac, my daily walk often takes me over the Mont Garot, at 73m the highest peak in the area. My walk takes me past a small local vineyard, the Clos Garot, situated on the south side of the hill, protected by the trees above and...

One of the reasons my apprenticeship is taking so long is that, just before starting my course as a Green Badge Guide for SE Wales, I bought a second home in France. My wife is from St Malo in Brittany and her parents, both now in their 80s, live in St Servan, one of...

Caerphilly has been twinned with Lannion, a town in the Cote d'Armor area of Brittany, since 1991. The major event in the Twinning calendar is a biennial visit by our Breton friends, with a party of Caerphilly residents visiting Lannion on the alternate year. July...

I play squash twice a week with Colin. This July was his 66th birthday and his wife Linda's birthday followed in August. She had treated him to a guided visit to Bristol Waterfront led by a guide dressed as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which he enjoyed immensely. He had...

Blaenafon Alongside my training to be a tourist guide, I also volunteer with Cadw - the arm of Welsh Government that looks after historic monuments. One of the benefits of this is that we have regular training days where we are shown around the various Cadw owned...

Sunday 23rd June Huge anxiety today. Sean, one of the more experienced guides from our Green Badge course, passed a job over, guiding a group of English speaking tourists around Castell Coch. As I have been volunteering there for 3 months, I felt I had more than...