Just spotted this #StDavidsDay #PostboxKnits #PostboxTopper in Southsea featuring a rather fine dragon and daffodils 🐉 #PostboxSaturday
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Thousands parade through county town in St David’s celebration
Organised by the Pembrokeshire Language Forum and Pembrokeshire County Council, the annual parade has proved to be popular with schools and residents alike.
Led by the enthusiastic sounds of Samba Doc, the parade started from the top of town and children marched down High Street before looping through the town centre and ending at Picton Playing Fields, for an open-air jamboree.
Haverfordwest St David’s Day Parade(Image: Pembrokeshire Council)Haverfordwest St David’s Day Parade
(Image: Pembrokeshire Council)
Council Leader Cllr Jon Harvey said: “This was a wonderful event and it was fantastic to see schools from across Pembrokeshire taking part.”
Catrin Phillips, Welsh Language Development Officer, said: “A heartfelt thank you to the schools, organisations, volunteers, and everyone else who help make this yearly event such a success – it’s wonderful to see so many people coming together to celebrate our language and culture!”
(Lead image: Pembrokeshire Council)
#Haverfordwest #Parade #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCouncil #StDavidSDay
Can’t believe I missed wishing all my Welsh friends a happy #StDavidsDay 🏴 Went for a walk along the canal today and these reminded me! Greetings from across the Irish Sea! #Cymru #Wales
An excellent #StDavidsDay walk yesterday on the #WalesCoastPath to see St Tudwal's lighthouse. On an island off the Llŷn Peninsula, it was built in 1877 and is still working, now with an LED light. The island was once owned by Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of the nearby Portmeirion Italianate village, and is currently owned by TV adventurer Bear Grylls.
Visit Wales launch new girl-gang breaks to celebrate St Non’s Day
With ‘girl gang’ breaks on the rise, Visit Wales has launched four new female-focussed itineraries with a focus on wellbeing, adventure and meaningful multi-generational get-togethers to mark St Non’s Day for the first time.
Non, the mother of Wales’ patron Saint David, is honoured on March 2nd, a day after Wales’ national day, St David’s Day, which is dedicated to her son.
Female group travel has become a key travel trend for 2025. Visit Wales data shows the hashtag #GirlTrip has been viewed more than 7m times on TikTok in the last 120 days. On Pinterest, “Girls Trip” has seen a 20% year on year increase and 38% increase in mentions across social platforms – as well as spawning millions of the ‘when the girls trip leaves the group chat’ memes.
The four new itineraries can be explored on Visit Wales’ website and feature a host of activities from jumping in seaweed baths and steaming beachfront barrel saunas in the stunning coastal landscapes of north Wales, to sampling freshly foraged seafood in Pembrokeshire restaurants, dancing in a silent disco at the national museum in the Welsh capital or indulging in a book club break in Hay on Wye. The itineraries are part of Visit Wales’ wider campaign inviting people to ‘feel the hwyl’- a deep state of joy that comes from being totally immersed in the moment.
Star of BBC smash hit TV series The Traitors, 24-year-old Elen Wyn, a translator and opera singer from north Wales, says Wales is the perfect place for a girls trip and she would be delighted to host Traitors villain Charlotte, who adopted a Welsh accent throughout the series to soften her ruthless tactics.
Elen said: “Charlotte told me she’s more familiar with south than north Wales, so I would want to take her up there, to Llanddwyn Beach, which is beautiful and Mynydd Parys is strange but unique. I think Charlotte could do with chilling out a bit, so we would head to the beach and mountains.
“I’m in touch with Livi, Minah and Leanne and I’d love them to see the real Wales too. I would take them all to Barry Island – there were lots of Gavin and Stacey fans in the castle, so they would enjoy that.
“Charlotte tried to avoid me in the castle, because she was worried I would spot her accent and become suspicious, so I think we’ve got lots of catching up to do to get to know each other properly.”
Since moving to Cardiff to study three years ago, Elen’s ‘genod,’ or girls, in north Wales make much more effort to come together for a catch up.
“I’m definitely the organiser!” says Elen. “Wales is perfect for a girls’ trip because there are so many places to relax like going for a walk round Roath Park Lake while Cardiff’s St Mary Street is great for partying. My younger sister Beca and I love trying one of the many, many great restaurants here. I love the balance between being mindful and doing something totally exhilarating like swimming in the sea at Church Bay in Cemlyn or climbing Pen y Fan.
“I take mindfulness very seriously – for the mind, mental health and for the body. It makes you feel so good. I love chilling on the balcony after a day in the spa at Voco St David’s – the views over Cardiff Bay are something else. Beca and I are booked into the spa at Dylan Coastal Resort next month and I can’t wait for the trip to Laugharne, after a friend recommended we try it.
“I have lots of groups of female friends who enjoy different types of breaks and being the middle of three sisters, we love getting away together or going for a hike in the gorgeous north Wales mountains or along the coast and beaches.
“I’m familiar with most parts of Wales, because of my competing in Eisteddfods since I was little. From caravanning with the family at Eisteddfodau to winning for my solo last year, I have so many Eisteddfod highlights.”
While St David’s Day is full of ‘hwyl’ in Wales, fewer people may have heard of the significance of the day afterwards; St Non’s Day.
St Non’s ruined medieval chapel lies on a spectacular and remote part of the Wales Coast Path in North Pembrokeshire, where she is said to have given birth to St David. Labour pains caused her to grip a stone so hard that her fingerprints were left on it, splitting it in two.
Sian Kilcoyne, co-author of best-selling book Welsh Women on This Day said:
“While the story of St Non is that of a nun living in the 5th Century, the issues surrounding her are still highly pertinent to women and girls in 2025.
“A visit or retreat to St Non’s chapel and well in Pembrokeshire has long been seen as an opportunity for healing, self-reflection, wellness and connection with nature. Opening that idea out to new audiences of women around the world and to more locations across Wales is a wonderful opportunity to continue to reclaim and celebrate Non’s story on this day, centuries later.”
One uniquely Welsh venue embodying the modern-day trend for women travelling in groups and looking for modern day wellness and connection is The Dreaming, a wellbeing retreat nestled in the heart of the Elan Valley in Wales, brought to life by Welsh singer-songwriter, Charlotte Church.
Starting life as a 15th-Century monastery, and later owned by another iconic Welsh woman, Laura Ashley, who ran her global interior design business from the house, The Dreaming site now offers day retreats that allow guests to slow down and reconnect with the nature of the area, which includes waterfalls, ancient forests and an international Dark Sky reserve for stargazing: to overnight stays providing longer opportunities for guests to heal and reconnect with themselves in the bohemian-luxury surroundings of the estate.
Specific packages on offer at The Dreaming include a Mother Daughter Retreat; a Queer Retreat and a Muslim Women Retreat.
Female focussed group events in Wales are also building in popularity, with the world’s largest female-only ultra-marathon, She Ultra, set to take place in the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales in April and attracting a record 1,800 entrants from around the world.
Organiser Huw Williams said many women would be travelling with groups of friends to attend and see the event, which raises money for women’s cancer charities, as more than a just a race.
He said: “The majority of the women are walkers and hikers and then you’ve got about 20 per cent who are runners. Women are coming from all over the UK, Italy, Portugal, Poland, France, Greece and America. It is going to be such a great weekend for the women and the local community.”
The four new itineraries can be explored on the Visit Wales website Girls’ weekend getaway in Wales | Visit Wales
I went to a #StDavidsDay event today. Theres never been one in my city at this scale before, but my experience at the Celtic Festival that used to happen here taught me to have low expectations. Despite that, I was still borderline offended. The performer was a local singer wearing a kilt 🚫 and singing Irish folk songs. 🚫 Like… wtf. That’s like hosting a Canada Day celebration with everyone dressed like Texan cowboys while playing American folk songs.
Nid #ShoutyBlokesWithGuitars neithiwr - yn lle, ar gyfer #DyddGŵylDewi, cerddoriaeth werin Gymraeg gyda #MariMathias (gyda chefnogaeth o’r ofnadwy #Samana).
No #ShoutyBlokesWithGuitars last night - instead, for #StDavidsDay, some Welsh-language folk music with #MariMathias (supported by the execrable #Samana).
1. März, in Wales Gedenktag bzw. Nationalfeiertag, der St. David's Day.
Denen, welchen er bekannt ist, ist er üblicherweise wegen seinem Mitwirken beim Widerstand gegen die Angelsachsen bekannt (6. Jahrhundert). Als ich paar Jahre in Wales arbeitete, da haben mich aber eher etwas andere Aspekte interessiert. Wie z.B. die Klosterregeln, wo tagsüber körperlich gearbeitet wurde, und Abends dann eher intellektuell.
On St. David's Day, be sure to check for leeks.
Happy St David’s Day #Bloomscrolling #StDavidsDay
the guy is waving leeks like he's making war at an emporium
it's St David's Day and some know and others don't know that the daffodil is a stoned leek
I bring him a pebble hoping he gets the transformation
He blinks at the grit..
"Son the gold flower is St Pedr of Wales and Cornwall"
'S e #DiCatairne agus Latha Naomh Daibhidh a th' ann an diugh. Seo cat càirdeil ris an do thachair mi ann an Lùchairt Easbaig ann am Baile Naoimh Dhaibhidh (2022).
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus do charaidean anns a' Chuimrigh!
#StDavidsDay #StDavids #Cymru #Caturday #MastoCait #CatsOfMastodon #DyddGwylDewi #CatsOfFediverse #HistoryCats
Hwyl fawr ar Ddydd Gwl Dewi!
Happy #StDavidsDay
Just been for a delicious Welsh lunch of Cawl 🏴 at Seren Cafe And Restaurant Rhos On Sea delicious, freshly cooked and locally sourced food and warm welcome as always #StDavidsDay and admiring the beautiful daffodils down the road whilst waiting for the bus to Llandudno.
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Happy St David's Day to all across My Country of #Cymru 🏴 and near and far, family and friends. Have a great day celebrating St David and our great and beautiful Country and it's language and culture 🏴
Just been for a delicious Welsh lunch of Cawl 🏴 at Seren Cafe And Restaurant Rhos On Sea delicious, freshly cooked and locally sourced food and warm welcome as always #StDavidsDay and admiring the beautiful daffodils down the road whilst waiting for the bus to Llandudno.
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Happy St David's Day to all across My Country of #Cymru 🏴 and near and far, family and friends. Have a great day celebrating St David and our great and beautiful Country and it's language and culture 🏴
Our Welsh wizard. 🪄
Happy #StDavidsDay! 🏴
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