On Sunday, I ran my third Hospitality vs 10K – an idea started by Tani Hasa and the team at award-winning cocktail bar Lab 22, back in 2024.
His premise is simple: bring Cardiff’s hospitality community together to train for and run the Cardiff 10K, while supporting wellbeing, building connections across the industry and raising money for a local charity.
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Set just outside Narberth town, surrounded by meadows, ponds, woodland, mature gardens and views towards the Preseli Hills, The Grove has built a reputation as one of Wales’ most luxurious country house hotels. But what makes it interesting is not simply that it offers 5* luxury in Pembrokeshire. It is that the luxury feels inseparable from the place itself.
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Abergavenny Food Festival is back for 2026, highlighting local chefs, artisan food stalls, and the issues shaping our food system today. After almost a decade of attending, writing about, working on (and even once appearing at!) the festival, I feel excited about it again. Roll on September!
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Málaga has everything I tend to look for in a city break: sunshine, sea, ridiculously good food, local wine, plenty to explore on foot and enough going on that travelling alone should really be no big deal.
I spent a few days there before catching the train onwards to Seville, balancing work and sightseeing with rooftop-pool time, a dramatic hike and, naturally, a lot of eating and drinking.
Here’s everywhere I’d genuinely recommend from my trip.
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