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Walking Offa's Dyke - Hay-on-Wye to Llangollen

Follow my walk from Hay-on-Wye to Llangollen through the borderlands of England and Wales - a landscape between two worlds. Along the way, I’ll share photographs, field notes, my watercolours and my take on the places I encounter.

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