B&bs, Heritage and rowing with a stick

The holiday season gets underway but is the humble B&B enough for the perfect rural getaway? Apprentices needed to learn traditional building skills to maintain our heritage buildings and row, row, row your boat ...with a stick ?

Last updated: 17 April 2011

Country Focus - Sunday 17th April at 07.00am presented by Rachael Garside; repeated 5.30am Monday 18th April 2010

There's hardly a farm in Wales that hasn't gone into tourism even if it's just a Bed and Breakfast or holiday cottages. But is it enough to just offer simple accommodation? Kathryn Ellis, of Llwyndyrus Farm, near Pwllheli on the Lleyn Peninsula decided three years ago that the Llyn area in which they're situated was somewhat saturated with Bed and Breakfast and what was needed was a little "added value". So when Kit, as she is known and her husband, Evan converted the farm buildings - they opted to offer the luxuary experience of a spa.

Wales is blessed with a high number of heritage buildings but there's a significant shortage of traditional building skills needed to conserve them. A new scheme has been launched to run in Carmarthenshire; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion - with the help of a nearly £700,000 Heritage Fund - to train young people up in skills such as lime plastering, stone masonry, and joinery. For more information please contact Helena Burke at the Tywi Centre, Llandeilo on 01558 824271 or email hburke@sirgar.gov.uk

Apart from being islands, of somewhat different sizes, what's the connection between Anglesey and Greenland? Our community reporter Huw Jenkins dons his wetsuit and is treated to a trip down the estuary at Malltraeth, paddled along by Paul Griffiths using something called the Anglesey Stick...


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