TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE
Our travel correspondent Simon Calder is making the most of the UK
in August by taking on a challenge a day, and hopes that you might
follow. Today: from central Cardiff to Holyhead – the pretty and
interesting way by hitchiking on the back roads in a race against Wales’
longest train journey
Yesterday was a good one for getting lifts in top-end cars (Simon Calder)
Caravans: yesterday, they tainted the sinuous beauty of the A470.
If you do not yet know this magnificent trunk road, it is the closest there is to a Pan-Wales Highway. The
A470 emerges from the congestion of Cardiff and the Valleys to challenge the contours of increasingly
muscular mountains, swerving and swooping as it links towns and villages blessed – or cursed – by the