Wonders of Wales’ wild frontier

Cymru. Or Wales, in English. Its greenery, swift streams and rainy summits stole into my heart as a child. We went on caravan holidays to Cymru, like everyone else I knew from Shrewsbury, but Tywyn was just ‘the seaside’ till I heard local women there speaking Welsh. That ‘Wales’ was different sparked excitement that still makes me shiver. Cymru was where I yearned to be when living in England, the place I thought of when working overseas.

By 1998 I was living in Y Borth but teaching in Telford. It was the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) that brought me to the town of Machynlleth. CAT was a positive place,