Ice stops play

When artists on the Crafted Space weekend made a water -powered xylophone in our stream at Graig Wen it wasn’t really expected to last more than a few weeks. That was a couple of summers ago and there it still is. It does take a bit of a beating as the stream...

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...

WATCH THE BIRDIES

          Thanks to Mr and Mrs Oliver of LLandudno for these pictures taken from the breakfast table here at The Slate Shed. Our guests often remark on the variety of colourful birds they enjoy watching over breakfast. A greater spotted...

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...