Into the Rainwoods

A travel story and video

Friends,

This week we’re travelling to the Celtic rainforest. Time to get wet and wild (and believe me it was wet!). I’ve been visiting the oak woods around the Elan Valley in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales, walking, wandering, perusing, photographing and videoing. It’s a strange, silent, beautiful place, one of the jewels of the Welsh landscape. Being February I was almost alone there, except for the obligatory sheep and the circling red kites, and a single farmer negotiating the rocks and mud with his sheep dog. The woods are dormant now, long into their winter sleep. So this is a first instalment, I’ll be writing about the place again in late Spring when the trees are in luminous leaf. And again in Autumn when everything turns gold. There’s a short video at the end of the post so you can get as close to the place as possible.

I hope you enjoy part one!

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