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Caerphilly Big Cheese Festival 2012: Your guide Welsh Countryside Month The Big Cheese Festival is an annual free fair held in the grounds of Caerphilly Castle and kicked off with the Big Cheese Race at 4pm on Friday, July 27. More than 80,000 visitors are expected for the weekend, which will then run from 11am until 9pm on Saturday and Sunday. …

Caerphilly Big Cheese Festival 2012: Relive the pick of the stories and pictures Welsh Countryside Month Caerphilly hosted its annual Big Cheese Festival across the weekend of July 27 – July 29 and 80,000 enjoyed the fun in the sun throughout the weekend. Attractions included the Big Cheese Race around Caerphilly Castle on Friday evening as well as re-enactments a giant …

National Eisteddfod of Wales 2012: Your guide to the Maes Welsh Countryside Month Planning a trip to the Maes this year? We have all the information you will need to get to the National Eisteddfod 2012, from Saturday, August 4, until Saturday, August 11. The finishing touches are being added to the site at Llandow Airfield in the Vale of …

Brecon Jazz Festival 2012: Friday, August 10 – Sunday August 12 Welsh Countryside Month The much-loved Brecon Jazz Festival will be headlined by Dionne Warwick, Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion and Roy Ayers. Also this year’s line-up combines top UK talent such as Gwilym Simcock, The Neil Cowley Trio, Claire Martin, Stan Tracey, Andy Sheppard, YolanDa Brown, Kit Downes and Soweto Kinch. …

National Eisteddfod of Wales 2012: Relive our coverage from the Maes – scroll down for pictures, articles and video Welsh Countryside Month We covered every angle of the National Eisteddfod 2012 from the maes in Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, with pictures, video and a daily live blog, as part of our Welsh Countryside Month celebrations. Take a look back through how we covered it …

Brecon Jazz Festival 2012: Friday, August 10 – Sunday August 12 Welsh Countryside Month Thousands of people descended on the market town of Brecon at the weekend for the annual jazz festival – an event some feared might not happen. This year’s event, which featured more than 22 concerts by artists ranging from Dionne Warwick to veteran jazz man Stan Tracey, …

Welsh Countryside Month The rain and mud didn’t stop revellers from descending on the 10th annual Green Man festival in Glanusk Park near the Brecon Beacons this year. Campers and music lovers arrived at the site Thursday to see an eclectic mix of folk, rock and electronic music, as well as top British comedy and literary talks, despite the rain. …

Welsh Countryside Month One of Wales’ premier food festivals – billed as the Glastonbury of the culinary world – opens on Saturday, September 15. The festival this year features more than 200 exhibitors from Wales, the Marches and further afield. There’s also a children’s food academy with drop-in workshops, a rolling programme of chef demonstrations and music and comedy at Abergavenny …

It’s the highwater mark in Wales’ gourmet calendar. When it comes to celebrating the tidal rush of great Welsh produce finding its way into some of the finest restaurants around, nowhere puts on a show quite like this charming market town. Walking through the streets is a Falstaffian tease for the senses or, depending on your viewpoint and waistline – …

Welsh Countryside Month A summer of countryside fun kicked off at the Royal Welsh Show in July and wound down in mid September when the Abergavenny Food Festival served up its final feast. On the way, we visited the 2012 National Eisteddfod, in the Vale of Glamorgan, the Caerphilly Big Cheese Festival and joined the hoards of music lovers at the Green Man Festival and Brecon …