The clocks have gone back, the air is getting colder and the nights are beginning to roll in. Many of us are thinking about Halloween! Trick or treating (who doesn’t love crazy kids on a sugar rush?!), fancy dress, pumpkin carving… all great fun Halloween activities. A lot of these we have inherited from our American cousins, which got me thinking… what did my Welsh ancestors do to celebrate Halloween? This is what I found out! In Wales, Nos Calan Gaeaf is the eve of the firs

Abercych - the First Branch of the Mabinogi* In the first branch of the Mabinogi, two great lords, Pwyll of Dyfed & Arwan of Annwn, (also known as Lord of the "Otherworld") meet whilst out hunting in a secluded wooded valley called Glyn Cuch in Abercych. This village is located on the far side of the Ffynone Woods & Top of the Woods campsite. It is here at Abercych, at the meeting of 2 rivers** the two lords cut a deal over a stag hunt. The deal was to swap places & rule eac