
WALES AWAY BLOG: The Menin Gate, Ypres (10/06/25)
A poignant stop off on the way home from Brussels. The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. I don’t always bother with a blog about the journey […]
A poignant stop off on the way home from Brussels. The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. I don’t always bother with a blog about the journey […]
Tales of spaceships, the Red Wall and an action-packed football match. Sometimes you wake up and have to judge which you need most: more sleep […]
Brussels by bus – day one. The beauty of Wales Away is travelling to interesting new places. But this is the third time in ten […]
Celebrating fifteen years of Spirit of 58 in London – with a little bit of help from Alternative Wales. As the needle clicked into the […]
This weekend marks forty years since the Battle of the Beanfield. On 1st June 1985 the police used ‘all mean necessary’ to prevent the traditional […]
A day of pairing drinks with music. We started the day by nipping over the road from the hotel for a Greggs, the breakfast of […]
First full day. Comedy, grammar lessons and walking through walls. And booze. Lots of booze. The day started with a healthy(ish) nosh up in the […]
A weekend in Laugharne. In March. It must be The Laugharne Weekend. Our feet hadn’t really touched the ground. Less than twelve hours after getting […]
Final day of trip, meeting local musicians and some reflections on Macedonia. Today we finally get to do what we had hoped to do on […]
Burning the candle at both ends: a jam-packed day including lakes, picnics and football. And beers It’s a funny old game. If your team scores […]
An emotional day in Skopje, for several very different reasons I wake up to cancel the 9:30 walking tour. Partly because of the rain, partly […]
First Wales Away trip of a new campaign, the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The first away trip of a campaign should be a […]
A reflection on 100 records, providing a taste of some of the eclectic sounds that have come out of Wales. Think Wales is about male […]
Latest issue (#16) of Alternative Wales, a zine dedicated to all things Welsh football. Alternative Wales is a professional-looking A5 zine that covers all aspects […]
Le Pub, in Newport, has been confirmed as the fifth UK venue to become a ‘Community Owned Venue’, with a little bit of help from […]
Rainyday Rainbow are doing their bit to help the staff of the ill-fated Moon Club in Cardiff by releasing a video recorded live in the […]
An action-packed day featuring hot air balloons, ancient cities beneath the ground and magic carpets. It’s a baron land that has changed hands for centuries […]
Today is the big day. Game Day. Turkey v Wales Day. We have only been here two nights but it feels like a week. I […]
A day doing bugger all in a city with bugger all to do. We are up at the crack of noon and ready to rock. […]
An unusually short trip for us, we are heading out to Turkey embeded with Wonky Sheep, the official FAW travel partner. We normally prefer to […]
We’re in Dubrovnik. Best we do some Dubrovnik stuff. We have learnt that if you do everything you want to do on ‘holiday’, you will […]
Today we went on another trip. Apparently in Dubrovnik, but it certainly didn’t feel like it. The Elaphite islands A slightly more civilised start time […]
Today we are up early, with passports in hand: we are going on a trip into Bosnia and Herzegovina The lyric, ‘Cheap Holiday in Someone […]
We had big plans for today. They were all put on hold when we couldn’t be arsed to get out of bed. We wandered down […]
Finally made it into Dubrovnik Old Town today for a proper mwch around. The public transport system appears to be efficient and punctual. We have […]
Today we did pretty much nothing at all, but I’m not going to let that stop me writing a blog. The lack of sleep over […]
I hate the phrase ‘Bucket List’, it casually accepts that you’re going to ‘kick the bucket’. But Dubrovnik has been top of my list of […]
Last full day in Iceland and we have saved the best for last. The legendary Golden Circle Tour. We always like to have at least […]
Match Day. The reason we are in this wonderful country. Spoiler alert. We drew 2:2. It’s weird, coming back from two nil down always feels […]
We might have to wait till tomorrow to watch Wales, but today we got to see Whales. The Red Wall are well and truly filling […]
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