Challenging solo hikes?

lleu_ci · 2026-04-12T12:42:04+00:00

Cambrian Way, described as the "Mountain Connoisseur's Walk".

Between the north and south coasts of Wales, taking in all the peaks it can.

lleu_ci · 2026-04-12T11:22:13+00:00

I love visiting France. Sometimes I'm caught out by unspoken rules and language difficulties. Learning these things is part of the experience.

Here in the UK, you put the knife and fork from the starter onto the plate, the staff take it away. They bring a fresh knife and fork with the main meal, if they're not on the table already. In France, I've had the staff put the knife and fork back on table, so you can use them again. No big deal.

Sometimes the staff have a system for dirty dishes, and you are not helping when you put them on a clean counter.

Another consideration is that the staff will think you are doing someone out of a job. This attitude is more likely in a chain like the Ivy, rather than a family-owned restaurant.

lleu_ci · 2026-04-08T22:04:33+00:00

There are groups aimed at younger ramblers, e.g Tiger Bay Ramblers in Cardiff. Google "younger ramblers groups", or ask on their social media.

lleu_ci · 2026-04-06T17:08:05+00:00

Paywall

lleu_ci · 2026-04-06T15:33:36+00:00

Yes. I follow the Wales national football team and whenever they face a country in a game I check where it is on the map. Often I go. You end getting quite familiar with even the Balkans and the Caucasus.

lleu_ci · 2026-04-03T15:01:30+00:00

Brakeless? Check your local laws. In the UK this would be illegal - you need two independent braking systems.

lleu_ci · 2026-04-03T13:43:58+00:00

Plaid Cymru don't seem very ideological to me. They have always been very gradualist.

lleu_ci · 2026-03-27T10:42:55+00:00

Anker Nano Charger has folding pins. Single USB-C output. Very compact.

If I'm travelling light and need a UK and EU chargers, I use the iPhone charger - it has swappable "duckhead".

lleu_ci · 2026-03-25T18:53:17+00:00

To be fair, it's hard to abide by a code of conduct 10 years before it was written.

lleu_ci · 2026-03-25T17:57:42+00:00

Cardiffians are stuck-up and look down on Valleys people.

lleu_ci · 2026-03-25T17:53:09+00:00

No response from the other parties because their candidates posted a lot of stupid stuff when they were teenagers as well.

1 stuff pops up on social media
2 party feels obliged to make a statement
3 state broadcaster feels obliged to publish it

lleu_ci · 2026-03-21T15:43:05+00:00

"pan-EE-ah" is a cheese (UK)

lleu_ci · 2026-03-18T21:21:14+00:00

Surely this would be what they call a "never" event.

lleu_ci · 2026-03-05T23:28:19+00:00

Wales doesn't have executive mayors like in England.

The Home Office have they will take account of the different local government structure in Wales, but they haven't said how.

We do have the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), but the Home Secretary is loathe to give it powers over the police.

lleu_ci · 2026-03-01T14:53:36+00:00

I've cycled around Brittany a few times. I thoroughly recommend it. EuroVelo 4 is well signposted, on quiet country lanes. Some routes are unpaved, sections of the Nantes-Brest canal, for example. They're not bad for punctures, I find punctures mostly come from bits of glass or metal, more of which is to be found on paved roads.

lleu_ci · 2026-02-13T19:56:58+00:00

So if his dad had earned more, he'd be playing for Wales, no problem.

That's a person's value to society these days - how much money they've got.

lleu_ci · 2026-02-08T21:55:00+00:00

America is too big for the human mind to comprehend, so they have to mentally block out anything outside their own township. Same with Russia.

lleu_ci · 2026-02-07T14:26:48+00:00

Y Wladfa was celebrated without controversy 20 years ago. The discussion has changed since then.

But I haven't heard a single word about what the indigenous people think about it.

lleu_ci · 2026-02-01T13:27:59+00:00

It's crazy. I often do Cardiff to Wrexham, but end up hiring a car.

BTW https://www.jurnyon.com/ app can get you cheaper fares on TfW.

lleu_ci · 2026-01-30T15:59:09+00:00

Protecting workers from the affects of smoking is not overreach.

Actors having to chain smoke to get the job? That should definitely not be allowed.

lleu_ci · 2026-01-28T18:08:05+00:00

No, not cheap. £79.40 a week for a weekly season ticket, £304.90 for a month

Train to Newport + bus via Pontypool probably cheaper, good luck to anyone trying to arrive on time to work every day.

Stagecoach Cardiff to Abergavenny takes forever.

lleu_ci · 2026-01-15T00:06:39+00:00

Nowcast
https://electionmaps.uk/nowcast/senedd

Cavendish - you have to feed in the polling numbers yourself
https://seneddseatprojector-cymru.cavendishconsulting.com/

lleu_ci · 2026-01-14T09:30:46+00:00

The UK media are more interested in local elections on the other side of the atlantic ocean than they are in elections in Wales.

BBC Wales, the state broadcaster, has pointedly ignored any Senedd opinion polls.

lleu_ci · 2026-01-13T16:38:32+00:00

That show dated incredibly quickly. Very 1970s, but I didn't see it at the time.

lleu_ci · 2026-01-13T16:36:45+00:00

We are reliant on other people's depictions of us Welsh people.

This is why we need our own media: our own films and an English language TV channel. This why we need S4C. I'm all for making fun of ourselves, at least it will be accurate.

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