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Aberystwyth is so bracing

THE ridge, like a great whaleback, rises ahead of me. It’s softly green and swelling, a sharp contrast to the black, jagged cliffs below. Simply being by the sea is intoxicating: I’m revelling in the distant crash of the waves and heady scent of sea air.

It’s a gloomy morning after a few days of scintillating weather and my brain memory is still filled with

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