Wales Wishlist: chocolate, honey, wine and wool

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Wonderful Wales, Welsh cakes and Welsh wines, harp music and Welsh male voice choirs. Romans and ruined castles.

If you want to escape, there's the Escape room, or the ferry across from Fishguard to Ireland in three hours.

BOOKS
Aardvark Books and Cafe, and for children, The BookBurrow.

CANDLES
Pembrokeshire Candle Centre

CASTLES
Castle Coch
Caerphilly Castle

CHOCOLATE
Wickedly Welsh Chocolate Factory

ESCAPE
60 minutes for your group to solve the puzzles in a room packed with puzzles and escape from the room.
Mansion of Mystery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire SA62 4AS.

HONEY
New Quay Honey Farm
Honey ice cream. Audio-visual. See honey bees safely behind glass.

ROMANS
Roman Museum, Caerleon
Roman Amphitheatre, Caerleon

SLATE
National slate museum.

TAPESTRY TELLING HISTORY OF THE LAST INVASION
Fishguard

VINEYARD
Restaurant and wine tasting of up to 20 wines for adults.
online shop. Vineyard and woodland walks. Family attractions too , including animal corner.
Cwm Deri Vineyard

WOOLEN MILL
Melin Tregwynt
National Wood Museum

Useful Websites
aardvark-books.com
cwm-deri.co.uk
mansionofmystery.com
melintregwynt.co.uk
museum.wales/wool
pembrokeshirecandles.co.uk
thehoneyfarm.co.uk
wickedlywelsh.co.uk

About The Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, lives in London, England, and Singapore. She teaches and trains giving speeches, creative writings, learning to speak and write good English and other languages.

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See The Latest Underground Station Designs : New Woodlands MRT Stations Opened

English: Taken on 11 January 2020 during TEL1 open house
Date	11 January 2020 (according to Exif data)
Source	Own work
Author	yenwei

The New Woodlands South MRT has a colourful mural. Three shades of green, and red, and a mosaic.

More fun than Woodlands North.



Here's where the line goes, up to the north.

Description	English: Thomson-East Coast Line map.
Source	Own work
Author	Seloloving

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Useful Websites
https://landtransportguru.net/woodlands-south-station/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomson-East_Coast_Line_Woodlands_South_station.jpg
https://traveltriangle.com/blog/places-to-visit-near-woodlands-bdp/
singaporeair.com
https://www.transitlink.com.sg/eservice/eguide/rail_info.php
https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/journey-with-art-on-the-thomson-east-coast-line?

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New MRT Maps For Singapore

From February 2020 you can find a new map showing two new stations Woodlands north and south stations.

Where From?
1 On the ledge in front of the window of the ticket office of most major MRT stations.
2 Online for your laptop.
3 Online for your phone

If you take one map between two of you and separate later, you can photograph the map so you both have it to hand.

New Design
The new design is less schematic and closer to the real directions and distances. I found it takes some getting used to. I like the way the North and South Woodlands are clearly north and south, and the West and East Tampines are clearly west and east.

Useful Websites
https://www.transitlink.com.sg/images/eguide/mrt_sys_map.htm
https://www.transitlink.com.sg/eservice/eguide/rail_info.php

About The Author
Angela Lansbury, 

Woodlands, Palm Trees and Temples in Singapore

Problem
Woodlands is in the far north of Singapore, almost over into Malaysia, miles from the airport and the shopping centre of Orchard Road. Why would I go there? How would I get there? Is it a downmarket place?

Answer
An Indian couple people who ended up in Woodlands because his job took him there told me they prefer Woodlands to the District One city centre. Instead of sky scrapers, they family enjoy space and greenery, a secluded garden city, within the bigger garden city of the city state.

Story
Years ago the American School moved from the centre of the city towards Woodlands, because the centre of the city was more of a security risk. At that time I thought that the more expensive and exclusive areas nearer the centre were better, and that people who claimed to like living out of town were either sports freaks or compensating for their lack of income and success and make the best of being on the outskirts of Singapore. Then I was more interested in shopping than cycling, bored by beaches and big open spaces.

Trees
However, the first time I took the train to Woodlands MRT station, I was uplifted by the avenues of palm trees leading to and from the station. It was a delight to walk between them, enjoying the sight of the sun sinking behind the trees.

I visited a complex of offices and found tucked away around the corner two adjacent temples.

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Temples
Two great temples, colourful, beautiful.

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