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Pembrokeshire Fish Week 2013

There’s something fishy going on in Pembrokeshire

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…

Tin Shed Experience, 1940s museum in Laugharne, west Wales

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…

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

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…

Tin Shed Experience, 1940s museum in Laugharne, west Wales

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 Hermitage - Curiosity of the week - Contrary Life

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…

York’s Chocolate Story

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 Green Man at Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd

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…

Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival

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…

Race the Train, Tywyn

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…

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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…

World Bog Snorkelling Championships

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…

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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 & Craft Festival and Cawl Cooking Championship of the World

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…

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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…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

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A five-metre tall puppet travels through Crawley
Aura’s Odyssey with five-metre tall puppet visits Crawley

This week, see a five-metre tall puppet travel through Crawley in West Sussex. Puppet Aura will visit the town centre and parks, and ride on an open-top bus…

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