Listeners' Walks: Blaenau Ffestiniog
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this series of Ramblings, Clare Balding is walking with people or in places recommended by listeners. Eryl Davies wrote to the programme suggesting a walk in the hills of North Wales with her father, Tegid. He lives near Blaenau Ffestiniog and loves to explore the area every day, usually alone with his dog Twm. Not that unusual except that Tegid has no sight and relies on his memory and his canine companion to find the way. He has always loved walking and when he can, likes to share his passion with the rest of the family. Today he's joined by Eryl and his sixteen year old grandson, Llewellyn.
Their route can be found on OS Outdoor Leisure map 18
Producer: Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:52.4 | It's the most glorious day and have come to the middle of Wales to Blinog-Vestinioch. |
| 0:56.0 | All around looking high above us are the slate cliffs. |
| 1:00.0 | And there's a feeling of fragility really to the landscape |
| 1:03.0 | because I'm slightly worried that things will start slipping down. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, it's been a massive, massively quarried area. |
| 1:09.0 | There are streams running down as well. The heather |
| 1:11.5 | just starting to come out and really giving it this beautiful purple lilac indigo tinge. |
| 1:18.7 | This is part of a series about listeners walks and we have a letter from Errol Davis about your |
| 1:24.9 | father. That's right. He's got a lot of stories to tell and he knows the area very well. |
| 1:31.0 | He's been walking here for about 20 years or more. And Tom, who's a border collie, is with |
| 1:38.4 | Teggid in front of us. So why is this area special for your dad? Well, he was born in Potheli, which is on the Thin Peninsula, about 30 miles from here, |
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