Between the Trees
An award-winning micro-festival of indie-folk, science and nature set in coastal Candleston Woods, with intimate stages tucked between the trees by the sea.
A tiny, almost traffic-free estate village of thatched cottages beside the Ogmore, with no pub, shop or cafe of its own, but extraordinary natural and heritage assets on its doorstep that make it one of the most quietly spectacular village settings in South Wales.
Cottages, B&Bs and hotels near Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend.
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"A beribboned horse's skull on a pole arrives at the ancient Old House inn to challenge drinkers to a sung Welsh rhyming duel before being let in."
Llangynwyd Mari Lwyd
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A country show in the dunes and parkland of Merthyr Mawr with countryside pursuits, craft and local food just outside Bridgend."
Bridgend Country Show
"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."
Green Man
"The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells dresses entirely in period costume for a week each August, with residents, traders and visitors all adopting Victorian dress for street entertainment, performances, markets and a grand parade through a town whose architecture still looks exactly as it did when the railway brought Victorian society to drink the waters."
Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival
"The Llys Y Fran Young Farmers Club hosts a fireworks display beside the reservoir in a rural Pembrokeshire valley completely free of light pollution, making for an unusually vivid and atmospheric bonfire night sky."
Llys Y Fran Fireworks Display
"Llandeilo's free three-day pre-Christmas festival fills the independent shops, cafes and streets of this Carmarthenshire market town with food, crafts, live music and a festive lights switch-on every third weekend of November."
Llandeilo Festival of Senses (Llandeilo Christmas Weekend)
"Hosted by Widders Border Morris on the ancient border between England and Wales, this January gathering weaves together West Country apple wassailing, the Welsh Mari Lwyd hobby-horse tradition, Morris dancing, mumming, and a ceilidh into a single boisterous riverside procession through Chepstow town centre."
Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd
"Annual celebration of Wales's patron saint held in Britain's smallest city, combining a Cross Square market, community parade, cathedral concert and the Ras Dewi Sant road race."
St David's Day Festival