The Great Outdoors

GARN FADRYN

“I will take leave of Lleyn with a cautionary tale, told me by a woman at Tudweiliog. ‘There was a Lancashire school teacher’, she said, used to come here for every holiday – Easter, Whit, and Summer. He came regular for thirty years. When he retired he could think of nothing better than to settle here, and build himself a cottage. But the first winter broke him – broke his heart and he died.’

‘What broke his heart?’ I asked.

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