Start with a walk in the woods near Newborough, courtesy of Llyn Parc Mawr Community Woodland Group. They live in and around Newborough and work together to create a sustainable woodland for wildlife and the community.

The group manages a community woodland of 59 acres/24 hectares. To find it, take the A4080 north from Newborough for a mile and park just off the main road. The woodland, surrounding the lake of Llyn Parc Mawr, is a lovely hidden haven for wildlife and gentle forest walks.

There’s a strong community spirit here. The group doesn’t just care for the woodland. Take a look at its website and you’ll see that it’s also involved events like fungi forays, moth walks, woodland themed events and community parties, together with social history projects based on the stories of the Newborough Forest and the people who lived and worked there.

Then it’s on to Holyhead via Aberffraw and the A4080/A55 Expressway.

Call into the town’s Maritime Museum beside picturesque Newry Beach for a look back to a seafaring past. Housed in a former lifeboat station, the oldest in Wales, the museum showcases salty tales of shipwrecks, pirates and gallant rescues by lifeboatmen who saved so many lives.

There’s also a collection of ‘Holyhead at War’ World War One and Two memorabilia, not forgetting the famous ‘Myfanwy the Mammoth’, the teeth and jawbone of a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth discovered by workmen in 1864 when building Holyhead Harbour.

From Holyhead, take the A5 inland to Valley for lunch.

Pick up the A5025 north to Llanfaethlu, turning left on the minor road in the village for Porth Swtan, otherwise known as Church Bay. Pretty though it is, on this particular tour you’re here to immerse yourself in times gone by at the Swtan Heritage Museum, housed in a cottage above the beach (there’s car parking close to the museum and beach).

It’s an atmospheric dwelling, with whitewashed walls, thatched roof, an earth floor and authentic collection of period artefacts which recreate life as lived in a remote rural Welsh community at the turn of the 20th century.

One last thing: be sure to check out the programme at Holyhead’s Ucheldre Centre, which stages everything from live music to theatrical and literary events. If anything takes your fancy return to Holyhead for an evening performance.