Over the last few years there have been many reasons not to travel overseas. Our post-pandemic, climate-aware, cost-of-living-crisis times have caused many of us to explore more widely the UK and all it has to offer.
They have also brought about great change in the travel writing and outdoor writing industries.
Which is why I chose to write the below submission for the 2022 National Geographic Travel Writing competition on the topic of Wales rather than anywhere further flung.
I didn’t win any prizes.
But I did enjoy the writing challenge. And the opportunity to celebrate a beautiful country I can visit on an adventure by train, in my campervan.
Or just by walking across a bridge. Continue reading “Around the world in eight Wales days”