Practical Caravan

OUR FAMILY TIME

Did you know that?

The Cambrian Mountains are in an area known as the green desert of Wales, so called because of its lack of roads and towns

Sitting quietly in the early evening sun watching my grandchildren run free, their infectious laughter filling the air, my son Marcus and his wife Kim chatting next to me, I was reminded that this is what family time is all about. Part of me was saddened to think we had been deprived of this over the past year, although that feeling was far outweighed by the sheer pleasure of seeing most of the family together again.

Despite being born and raised a stone’s throw from the beautiful Cambrian Mountains in mid-Wales, it had been some years since I last went back to explore old stomping grounds, or indeed seek out new adventures in a region that holds a

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