Located in the Bardsey Sound, two miles off the tip of the Llyn Peninsula, Bardsey Island is home to many rare plants and plenty of sea birds such as gannets and razorbills, but the most famous inhabitants are Manx shearwaters, with a breeding colony of 10,000 to 16,000 on the island. Atlantic grey seals can…
Based in a heritage building in the heart of New Quay, overlooking the beautiful beach and harbour, the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre is the focus for marine research along the coast of south-west Wales. The popular visitor centre works in conjunction with Dolphin Survey Boat Trips to collect data on the bottlenose dolphins of…
Set in the beautiful Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales, the Silver Mountain Experience takes visitors on an atmospheric journey back to the 18th century when silver was mined in them there hills. During the boom of the 1860s the whole of north Cardiganshire resembled the Klondike, attracting speculators and adventurers from across the globe, but…
Devil’s Bridge Falls in the Rheidol Gorge is a major attraction about 12 miles outside Aberystwyth, where the River Mynach drops 300ft to meet the River Rheidol. The unique falls attract thousands of visitors each year and even inspired William Wordsworth’s “Torrent at the Devil’s Bridge”. For a small charge, you can follow a pathway…
Located in the historic former Cambrian Mills in the Teifi Valley, the National Wool Museum charts the history of weaving in Wales, once the most important industry in the country. During the late 1800s and early part of the next century, the woollen industry sustained the Welsh rural community and Cambrian Mills was built on…
If dragons were real, then Wales is where they’d be most at home. The only country in the world to have a dragon displayed on its national flag, Wales is a land of Celtic myth and legend. Part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, Wales is bordered by England to the…
It might come as a surprise to many people in the United Kingdom but South Korea’s Yeongyang Firefly Eco Park, Australia’s Warrumbungle National Park, the Grand Canyon National Park in the United States and Wales’ Elan Valley Estate have a vast amount in common… with all having been granted Dark Sky status due to their…
New York goes berserk for beer next month when the city plays host to the 11th Annual New York City Beer Week. The 10-day affair runs from Friday, 23 February, to Sunday, 4 March, and includes 150 events in all five city boroughs and at 100 different NYC beer destinations. Some of the events taking…
What an egg-stremely interesting idea… creating a giant golden egg as the symbol of the transformation of a town on the move to escape the threat of destruction. The golden ovoid is a sauna, Solar Egg, created by Swedish “co-operative economic association” Riksbyggen and artistic duo Mats Birgert and Lars Bergstrom and installed in Sweden’s…
The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, celebrates the 10th anniversary of its topping out ceremony today, just over nine years since it first opened to the public on 4 January 2010. Soaring over the city at an impressive 828 metres, the towering structure is a marvel of not only engineering but also…
