New Guide to Wales Published
This month sees the publication of a beautiful new guidebook to Wales.
About Wales by David Williams, a new guide to Wales from Welsh publishers Graffeg is published. It contains almost 200 pages and over 100 beautiful colour photos
Wales is a beautiful country, and I'm very fond of it. Each year my parents would take us off for our annual summer holidays in North Wales, to places like Rhyl, Prestatyn, Llandudno and Gronant. We'd make trips to explore Snowdonia, visit the castles at Conwy and Caernarvon, and go and see the Swallow Falls at Betws-y-Coed. More recently I've got to know Cardiff well, and the nearby Brecon Beacons. So I'm delighted to see a new guide to Wales, About Wales, which shows the country in all its glory.
About Wales is the latest in a series of handsome books produced by the Cardiff-based publishers, Graffeg. They've previously published books about Cardiff, the Welsh National Opera, Food in Wales and the Welsh landscape. The Graffeg books are distinguished by their impressive use of excellent colour photography, and by their choice of expert authors.
The author of About Wales is David Williams, who also wrote and took some of the photographs for Graffeg's Landscape Wales and About Cardiff books. He's a Welsh-speaking graduate of the University of Wales, so safe to say he knows his subject.
From my look through the book, he knows his way round a camera, too. They're the kind of colorful photos that really make you want to get out there and be joining in whatever's going on. You'll see what I mean as the excellent Graffeg website allows you to look inside the book and see ten sample spreads from it: click here.
About Wales lists over 250 things for people to do or to visit, along with accommodation and restaurant suggestions too. It's not cheap at £14.99 for a paperback, but it's large format (250mm x 200mm) and is more of a cross between coffee-table book and guidebook. My only worry is that it's such a good-looking and well-produced book, that you may not want to stick it in your backpack or throw it in your car like you would a regular guidebook. But that's a minor concern and Graffeg (it's the Welsh for Graphics, by the way) are to be congratulated on About Wales.
You can order About Wales online at the Graffeg website. Click here.
