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WALKS FROM THE DOORSTEP
One of the lovely things about Graig Wen and The Slate Shed B & B is that there are lots of walks you can do from here without having to use a car at all. As long as you can manage the steep track from our site to the Mawddach Estuary and back, then there are many...
A WARM WELSH WELCOME ON A COLD DAY
Today we were privileged to to visit the former home of Hedd Wyn, a famous Welsh poet. Hedd Wyn grew up on a hill farm called Yr Ysgwrn near Trawsfynydd, about 20 minutes drive from Graig Wen. Like many young men from the village, Hedd Wyn volunteered to fight in...
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 rises...
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...
JOHN & SARAH TAKE ON THE DRAGON
We have decided that it’s time to explore the length and breadth of our little country called Wales. The best way in our opinion to do this is by bike. So on the 26th June Sarah and I will leave Graig Wen in the capable hands of our team and set off from Holyhead in...
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...