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It seems summer forgot to visit the UK again this year, and autumn is already upon us.
Not to worry, there are still plenty of things happening across the border in Wales to fill your weekends with.

New Coastal Path – from the Teifi to the Dyfi.
The newly completed Ceredigion Coast Path follows a 60 miles / 96 km route between the Teifi and Dyfi estuaries, it links coastal towns and villages along the spectacular scenery of the Cardigan Bay coastline. Where you will discover a rich coastline including the dune system at Ynyslas, storm beaches, sandy bays and high cliffs. The route is broken down into sections so you can tick them off a weekend at a time or all in one go over a week. Four sections have been designated as Heritage Coast whilst two areas within Cardigan Bay are Marine Special Areas of Conservation because of their importance for wildlife.
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New Old Long Distance Path - Nearly ten years in the planning and thousands in the making, the 61m/99km-long Wat’s Dyke Way, which runs through pastoral countryside close to the Welsh border between Llanymynech in Powys and Holywell in Flintshire, is now open, waymarked and a guidebook to the trail has been published. There are conflicting opinions about when the earthwork was built, but it could have been the 5th or 6th Century, pre-dating the other local long distance path Offa's Dyke. Which ever side of the debate you are on there is still great walking to be had on the various public footpaths, bridleways and quiet country lanes that make up the trail between Llanymynech, near Welshpool, and Greenfield near Holywell.
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We’ve got a new mountain.
Yes, you read that right. We’ve got a new mountain. Having been recently upgraded from hill status, Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia is now officially a mountain. A group of three men armed with hi-tech satellite positioning systems walked the ‘hill’ for a few hours collecting data and upon further research found that Mynydd Graig Goch, at 609.75m, was slightly above the 2,000ft minimum for a mountain. Ordnance Survey have agreed to update their online maps straight away but said the printed versions may take a bit longer. Either way it takes the total number of mountains in Wales up to 190, which means there’s now one more to tick off that list.

With all these new things in Wales and some old favourites too, you might need a hand picking something to do this weekend, so check out www.visitwales.co.uk/autumn for more ideas and information.