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MEIRIONNYDD Ramblers are starting a new type of walk in the New Year to provide more opportunities to go out and enjoy the fresh air, our glorious countryside and a good chat.

The walks will be every Wednesday at 9.45am and finishing before lunch – a short, leisurely walk.

These walks are in addition to the programme of walks of varying length and difficulty and will still be rambles along unmade paths through fields and woods, over the occasional stream and stile. There will be some ascent and descent, but they plan to be walking for less than two hours and some walks will conveniently finish near a café for a coffee or lunch.

They hope these walks will be attractive to people who find long walks too much, to people who have had an illness and want to get back into rambling, to people who can only fit a short walk into their busy life and to people who would like to start walking without trying to “climb a mountain” on their first day.

Generally, they will be meeting for the walks at fixed points around Meirionnydd, but for the first walk, on 3 January 2018, they will be meeting at the Visitor Centre at Coed y Brenin (just off the A470).

As well as being the first of this new style of walk, this walk is one of three Meirionnydd rambles that are part of Ramblers Cymru’s Festival of Winter Walks.

This is a festival of walks supported by The People’s Postcode Lottery to help encourage people to take up walking as a form of exercise, as a social event and as an opportunity to be out in the countryside.

For these Meirionnydd rambles, they particularly welcome people who haven’t walked with them before, or people who haven’t walked as a leisure activity before.

As well as walking, they talk a lot, and like to mix with everyone who is in the group that day, so give them a try – join them for some exercise in the fresh air, and some good chat and good views.

Full details can be found on our website http://www.meirionnyddramblers.org.uk or just turn up at Coed y Brenin on 3 January.

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