It was in the news a couple of days ago that a new interactive app allows you to see what Beaumaris Castle would have looked like if the plans had been followed through and the castle completed.

It’s been ages since my last blog but I have a great reason, honestly.

Today is Pi day.

Come along to Bodnant Gardens on 1st March and help plant the thousands of snowdrops to make up fantastic displays in years to come.

Sea salt harvested and packed in Anglesey has now been granted protected status from the EU, so can count itself in the same league as Champagne and the likes of Newcastle brown ale and Melton Mowbray pies.

Every Thursday in January, the Bodnant Garden Centre, located next to the National Trust Bodnant Garden in the Conwy Valley, holds Meet The Crafters sessions.

In common with self-catering cottages throughout the land, many Wales Cottage Holidays properties are conversions of barns or farm outbuildings.

If you need another excuse to treat your loved one, don’t wait until February but come to Wales to celebrate Santes Dwynwen Day on 25 January 2014!

If you’ve time to get away to North Wales for some pre Christmas cheer, take the opportunity to seek out interesting food and gifts at Christmas and Winter Fairs in Snowdonia or across the Menai Strait on the Isle of Anglesey.

For your 2014 cottage holiday, take a look at Anglesey (Ynys Môn), just over the Menai Strait from Caernarfon and Bangor, and renowned for sandy beaches and quiet fishing villages.