The cigarettes we rolled with my left hand and his right, since the other two were clipped inside a length of steel pipe.

Much worse things happen in the world, of course, but there is a reason why bright lights and sleep deprivation are often used as an element of torture.

The 160-mile (260km) route, which follows a meandering course through central Wales, connects Aberconwy in the north with Carmarthen in the west. I loved his wry style and the way his walk account was interspersed with realisitc observations and compelling information. I was wearing a red Welsh rugby hat at the time, and it was instructive too how much anti-Welsh abuse was thrown at us as we lay there, silent – and surprising how, finally, the onslaught lapsed when we addressed the police in Welsh. For if he can show us how Wales is faring in these environmental end times, then we might just be able to scale it up until we arrive at a proper reckoning of the damage inflicted around the world. But others, such as Sarn Helen, still lie peaceful and half-hidden in the Welsh landscape, their 2,000-year-old stones accessible on foot or by mountain bike.

You can be walking past a cluster of yews that are older than Christ, turn a corner and find yourself in a standoff with a herd of alpacas. km) ride to Swansea, which should give you plenty of time to enjoy a celebratory meal by Swansea Bay and arrange any onward travel. From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative non-fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on the nation’s past, present and future. We felt protest might bring about change, and to an extent it has – it has brought the conversation much more mainstream, it’s brought the 2050 target, it has changed the narrative and it continues to change the narrative, and you have to draw some strength from that.In Ceredigion part of a B-road at Bronant is Roman, and six miles south is a long stretch through the hamlet of Stag's Head.