If you love eating fish or enjoy coastal activities there’s a feast in store at Pembrokeshire Fish Week with over 250 fishy events between 22nd and 30th June 2013…
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Bags, Tags and Gasmasks as Evacuees appear in Laugharne
Final year students have created an engaging piece of site-specific theatre, Bags, Tags and Gasmasks, which takes place at the Tin Shed Experience museum in Laugharne…
Going underground with Contrary Life: Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of our journey underground. Join us as we continue with caves, caverns and mines full of history and intrigue…
Theatre and history combine at the Tin Shed Experience this May
Living historians that recreate the Essex Yeomanry and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry from the Great War period will be setting up camp in the museum gardens of the Tin Shed Experience…
Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage
This week’s curiosity is a grotto in Wales and not the variety where you might find Santa. The Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage is an ornamental grotto found in Pembrokeshire…
Rooms with a View at Tenby this month as film festival pops up
Pembrokeshire seaside resort, Tenby is hosting a pop-up film festival in March. The Rooms with a View festival is showing films in unusual and quirky venues…
Valentine’s Day and not a candle in sight
Every year Contrary Life likes to bring you some alternative ways to spend Valentine’s and this year is no exception. Below we bring you our pick of things to do on or around Valentine’s Day to avoid the age old flowers and candle-lit dinner combo…
The Chepstow Wassail & Mari Lwyd
The Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd is a very popular family friendly annual event of old traditions, strange customs, capers, and weird creatures which this year takes place on 19th January 2013…
Step back in time with the Victorian Festival
Step back in time to the 1800s with the Victorian Festival at Llandrindod Wells, 18th – 26th August 2012…
Choo choose to Race the Train this August
Race the Train is a brilliantly unique race where competitors run alongside the Talyllyn Railway, and literally race the train. This year’s event takes place on 18th August 2012…
A word in your ear
Beyond The Border is an international festival of storytelling featuring storytellers, musicians, poets, singers, writers and artists from around the globe…
From wife carrying to worm charming, the World Alternative Games has it all
The Welsh alternative to the London 2012 Olympic games is here as Llanwrtyd Wells hosts the World Alternative Games from 17th August – 2nd September 2012…
Welsh Open Stoneskimming Championships
Already a popular annual event on Easdale in Scotland, Stone Skimming has now made its way to Wales…
St David’s Food Festival and Cawl Cooking Championships
The St David’s Food and Craft Festival and Cawl Cooking Championship of the World and Elsewhere takes place in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire on 3rd & 4th March 2012…
Wacky wooing: something different for Valentine’s Day 2012
Contrary Life has compiled a list of 20 fun, interesting and exciting things to do on Valentine’s Day 2012…