Sat Nav Blues
4 August 2007
For the 80% of you out there who don’t live in the countryside. Let me explain. The Cych Valley where I live in west Wales is quiet, very quiet. We are 5 miles from the nearest town - Newcastle Emlyn (official population 1,000) and 3 miles from the nearest ‘A’ road - that’s one where the traffic can flow continuously both ways with no single track element. We’re 15 miles from the nearest Tesco (no loss there) and 75 miles from the nearest IKEA! (thank the Lord).
The Cych Valley is part of the Teifi Valley catchment and it flows into the River Teifi at Abercych. It is one of only 85 EU designated “Special Areas of Conservation” (Formerly SSSI) in Wales. All manner of scarce swimmy and hairy things live here because it’s wet and quiet.
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