COAST WITH THE MOST!
THE island of Anglesey featured in the first episode of a new ITV series looking at the “best walks with a view” in the UK last Friday.
Expert walker and presenter Julia Bradbury has spent years wandering Britain’s countryside discovering some of its most beautiful and spectacular landscapes.
In this series of Best Walks With a View, she chooses her favourite, most accessible family treks in search of the perfect walk with a view which anyone can do in a lovely morning or afternoon ramble.
Heading out beside the Menai Strait overlooking Snowdonia, Julia’s coastal walk uncovers the birth place of Land Rover and ends on the romantic Llanddwyn Island, home to St Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers, and a lighthouse cove with stunning sea views.
Teetering on the North Wales Coast, Julia traces the coastal waters of the Strait, helping to save lobsters and meeting local mussel and oyster pickers, getting to taste them in a sunset beach picnic at the climax of her walk.
On route, Julia then seeks out the lost prototype of the first ever Land Rover which locals believe maybe buried in the Anglesey sand dunes, where its inventor Maurice Wilks first put it through trials almost 70 years ago.
After a paddle in the sea, she discovers why Prince William and Kate have a soft spot for the romantic Llanddwyn Island in a setting so spectacular that it reminds Julia of New Zealand’s South Island.
“In Anglesey we did a coastal walk that I know a lot of people love, and there’s good food there, so it would be a favourite for that reason,” she said.
Each programme features walks under 10 miles, taking the viewer up and down dales, fell sides and mountains, along valleys and coastal paths, across rivers and streams, and through fields and woodland.