Menter fachwen walks in May

FRIDAY 19 MAY 2.00pm
PENTIR MAP WALK: FAENOL WOODS, THE MAUSOLEUM AND ROBERT STEPHENSON’S WORKSHOPS
(3½ miles)
START: PREMIER INN, PARC MENAI, TREBORTH
NOT TOO DIFFICULT A WALK BUT BRING WALKING SHOES. THERE WILL BE NO PARKING FOR US AT THE ‘PREMIER INN’ SO COME IN GOOD TIME TO FIND SOME SPACES NEARBY IN THE BUSINESS PARK……

WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 10.00am
ROMAN SEASON: THE SEGONTIUM WALK (1½ miles)
WITH MARTIN DAVIES , ‘ARDAL – LOCAL HISTORY’
START: SEGONTIUM MUSEUM, CAERNARFON
RELATIVELY EASY AND A LOT OF THE WALK ON TARMAC BUT DESPITE THAT NO DOUBT THAT MARTIN WILL CONJURE UP A MUDDY PATCH FROM SOMEWHERE!!!!!

TUESDAY 31 MAY 2.00pm
A WALK AROUND THE OUTSKIRTS OF LLANRUG (3 miles)
START: BRYNREFAIL SCHOOL, LLANRUG
BRING YOUR WALKING SHOES AS THERE WILL BE A FEW PUBLIC FOOTPATHS. A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING IN THIS FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR….



TALKS AND COURSES

SATURDAY 27 MAY 10.00am-4.00pm
YEAR OF LEGENDS 2017: THE ‘TYLWYTH TEG’
AT MENTER FACHWEN’S SHOP / WALK AND DISCOVER CENTRE, HIGH STREET, LLANBERIS
WITH GWYN EDWARDS AND GARETH ROBERTS
THEORIES, STORIES AND A WALK
BRING YOUR FOOD, WALKING SHOES AND AN OPEN MIND
OUR AREA IS FULL OF LEGENDS, INCLUDING A GREAT MANY ABOUT THE ‘TYLWYTH TEG’. BUT WHERE DID THESE STORIES ORIGINATE FROM? AND WHY?


TUESDAY 30 MAY 7.00pm
LOCAL HISTORY (PART 2): FROM ROMANS TO THE MEDIEVAL TIMES
(PART OF OUR ‘ROMAN SEASON’)
A TALK BY MARTIN DAVIES, ‘ARDAL – LOCAL HISTORY’
AT THE MENTER FACHWEN WALK AND DISCOVER CENTRE, HIGH STREET, LLANBERIS
AT LAST, PART TWO OF MARTIN’S ENTERTAINING JOURNEY THROUGH OUR LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGY. DON’T WORRY IF YOU MISSED PART 1 IN THE AUTUMN, YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO ATTEND. ADMISSION WILL BE DONATIONS TO MENTER FACHWEN ONLY BUT REMEMBER TO BOOK BEFORE HAND IF YOU CAN AS IT WAS FULL THE LAST TIME. IT’LL BE A GREAT NIGHT.

Gareth