St Dwynwen’s Day to St Valentine’s Day, 2 for 1 DISCOUNT CARD offer

St Dwynwen Day is celebrated on 25 January.

We are offering 2 for the price of 1 on our 20% Discount Card from 25 January to 22 February. Pay for 1 Discount Card, £20, and you will be posted 2 cards. Share the love with the twelve little steam railways located across Wales,

From the top of Yr Wyddfa, the highest summit of Eryri (Snowdonia) to the Brecon Beacons National Park, with our Discount Card you can the beautiful Welsh narrow-gauge railways on a budget. And because we want you to explore everything Wales has to offer our Discount Card only become valid, for 12 months, from the date of their first use.

From the top of Yr Wyddfa, the highest summit of Eryri (Snowdonia) to the Brecon Beacons National Park, with our Discount Card you can the beautiful Welsh narrow-gauge railways on a budget. And because we want you to explore everything Wales has to offer our Discount Card only become valid, for 12 months, from the date of their first use.

The story of St Dwynwen

St Dwynwen, who is the Welsh patron saint of friendship and love, a bit like St Valentine is celebrated on 25 January. She founded a convent on the island of Llanddwyn (Dwynwen’s church), off Anglesey. It is lovely to walk along the beach at Newborough Warren to the remains of the thirteenth–sixteenth-century church at the site of her convent.

A well on Llanddwyn was dedicated to her following her death (about 460AD) and became a place of pilgrimage. You could ask the sacred fish or eel who lived in the well to predict your future. If the water of the well boils, it foretells love and good luck for the visitor.

It is said that Dwynwen, who lived during the fifth century, was the beautiful daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, the legendary King of Breconshire. She fell in love with Maelon Dafodrill but her father forbade them to marry. In anger, Maelon wronged Dwynwen and then left her.

In her distress, she begged God to help her forget Maelon. Dwynwen was visited by an angel who gave her a potion to give to Maelon. He was turned into a block of ice and the angel granted her three wishes.

Dwynwen’s first wish was to thaw Maelon, her second was that God would fulfil the hopes and dreams of all true lovers, and her third was that she would never marry. All her wishes were fulfilled and Dwynwen devoted herself to God for the rest of her life, preaching and establishing many Christian churches.

For travel inspiration check out the itineraries on our sister website Walers on Rails

A Historic Trail in North Wales
https://walesonrails.co.uk/itineraries/North-Wales-Historic-Circular

Pine Martens on the Vale of Rheidol
https://walesonrails.co.uk/itineraries/pinemartensonthevaleofrheidol

Slate, Scenery and Steam
https://walesonrails.co.uk/itineraries/Manchester-to-Porthmadog