#Dyfi Biosphere

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Cycle and walking improvements in Aberystwyth Town and Penparcau

“Cycle and walking improvements recently completed in Aberystwyth Town and Penparcau. Ceredigion County Council has recently completed path upgrade works in Penparcau, and the installation of enhanced cycle parking provision in the Town Centre, following an additional award of £138,000 from the Welsh Government’s Local Transport Fund. ​Ceredigion County Council has recently completed path upgrade works in Penparcau, and the installation of enhanced cycle parking provision in the Town Centre, following an additional award of £138,000 from the Welsh Government’s Local Transport Fund.The path from Fifth Avenue linking with the Rheidol Cycle Trail has been widened and resurfaced along with new railings fitted on St Brieuc bridge, bringing it up to Welsh Government Design Standards for shared use by cyclists and pedestrians. The entrance to the Fifth Avenue allotments is now segregated for motorists, and the lighting along the route has also been upgraded making it safer for people using the path.The path through Penparcau Park has also been widened and resurfaced providing an improved cycle and pedestrian link to Llwyn yr Eos Primary School.  New lighting has been installed on the path, along with new scooter and cycle racks for children using the play area....” For the full story see the link below. http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/English/Resident/News/Pages/Cycle-and-walking-improvements-recently-completed-in-Aberystwyth-Town-and-Penparcau.aspx

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Snowcapped hills, breathless blue skies and it's early February. It's all part and parcel of a unique @unesco biosphere. Why wouldn't you? Ready for More? . . . . . . . #biosphere #vistwales #visitcymru #dyfi #estuary #blueskies #unesco

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Visitor Experience Assistant - Reserve, USA

Would you like to work at one of RSPB Cymru's flagship reserves? Visitors come to our stunning Ynys-hir nature reserve in their droves every year to enjoy the vistas, wildlife and walks on offer. Are you passionate about delivering the highest standards, a great communicator able to engage and inspire people, and motivated by achieving targets? Would you like to become part of a high performing team? Are you flexible and self motivated, and have a desire to succeed? We welcome over 15,000 visitors and up to 1200 school children each year, have a busy Visitor Centre and run a programme of exciting events, carrying out important conservation work on our lowland wet grasslands, woodlands and other habitats such as peat bog and saltmarsh. Ynys-hir sits in the Dyfi estuary part of the only UNESCO designated Biosphere reserve in Wales. We have a vacancy for a seasonal, part time Visitor Experience Assistant to work alongside the Visitor Experience Manager and wider face to face team to support and deliver our visitor experience vision. We are looking for someone with energy, enthusiasm and imagination to ensure that the reserve offers our visitors exceptional, inspiring and safe experiences and to help deliver the daily face-to-face welcome and engagement with visitors. Together you will take a lead in identifying opportunities for income generation within visitor experience, and play a critical role in the delivery of the reserve membership recruitment target. The Post holder will be required to work every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, occasional evenings and Saturdays, some flexibility is desirable. Driving licence desirable as is the ability to speak Welsh. Please note the role profile for this position is a standard role profile and does not necessarily represent the all the work to be undertaken at Ynys-hir. When writing your application please detail how your skills match the role as described above.

Salary starting at

£16,010 to £16,252 per annum

Hours & contract information

Hours: Part time, 22.5 hours per week Contract: Fixed Term - 6 months

Closing date: 8 March 2020 Interview date: 20 March 2020

source https://usjobsfinder.com/en/visitor-experience-assistant/1054

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Gin made in Unesco World Biosphere Reserve scoops three global awards

Gin made in Unesco World Biosphere Reserve scoops three global awards

A Mid Wales distillery won three medals at the 2020 World Gin Awards.

The Dyfi Distillery in Corris, near Machynlleth, won the trophy for Best Welsh Dry Gin with its Dyfi Original, while Pollination Gin scooped a gold medal and Hibernation Gin was awarded a silver.

“We’re delighted,” said Danny Cameron, who co-founded the distillery at Corris Craft Centre more than four years ago with his…

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The Best Of The Collection Is Displayed In The Three-story-tall Gin Towerwith Carved Wooden Columns And Glass Shelvingthat Serves As The Centerpiece Of The Room.

Atlas, housed in what locals affectionately call the Batman Building, due to its similarities to Gotham Citys Wayne Tower, bills itself as having the worlds largest collection of gin. Its owner, Vicky Hwang, thinks that after a two-year renovation,the7,400 square foot Art Deco space will be able to rival Rafflesthanks toanextensive menu of1,011 bottlesand counting. Jason Williams, the bar's gin master, is dwarfed by the three-story gin tower. Photographer: Franz Navarrete/Bloomberg The drinks menuat Atlas iscurrently a work in progress butalready stretches to 60 pages, and thats without tasting notes. (The barhopes it will be finished in May.) Inside, you can findKi No Bi Kyoto Dry Gin, produced at Japans first dedicated gin distillery in the south of Kyoto using Japanese botanicals such as sansho leaf, kinome sprout and yuzu peel. If you prefer more of a dry style, go for theForest Dry Gin Quersus,a classic Belgian gin aged in a former Montrachet white wine barrel that imparts notes of pear, lavender and baking spice. Jason Williams, Atlass master of gin, describes the collection as oneofthe worlds largest, most diverse and thoughtfully curated physical collections of quality gins. They includePollination Gin, which is made at the Dyfi Distillery in mid-Walesusingbotanicals foraged from the Unesco-recognized Dygi Biosphere Reserve. Another, called Gin La Republica - Andina, isa Bolivian gin distilled at 4,000 meters above sea level that uses Andean ingredients such as ulupica, huacataya, quirquina and khoa. A bartender prepares a drink at Atlas. Photographer: Franz Navarrete/Bloomberg One factor common to all the bottles in the collection is strength.Every one is at least 40% ABV, according to Williams. Gin is better when its stronger. You get those botanicals like perfume. The best of the collection is displayed in the three-story-tall gin towerwith carved wooden columns and glass shelvingthat serves as the centerpiece of the room. In the venues previous incarnation, the tower was a wine refrigerator. When a customer selected a bottle from the upper reaches, a wine angel bartender would don a pair of wings before being whisked to the top with a pulley system, where she would pluck it from its shelf. At the time, it was incredible. Twelve years later, it was a bit gimmicky, said Hwang. With a Little Help From Our Friends Bertha's Revenge, Sipsmith and Four Pillars. Just a fraction of the extensive gin collection at Atlas. Photographer: Franz Navarrete/Bloomberg Getting your hands on more than 1,000 of the worlds most distinctive gins isnt easy. After drawing up an extensive inventory of the worlds best bottles, the tough part was sourcing them. While many distillers were happy to submit a bottle for the collection, others were harder to come by, so Atlas came up with a novel solutionemploy a barren of gin mules (yes, the collective noun for mules is barren), friends and family around the globe, to bring them into the country. Whenever someone was coming to Singapore, if there was a bottle we needed, we would let them know, and they would buy the bottle and mule it back for us, Hwang said. We had all these gin mules all over the world. Sitting Comfortably Vicky Hwang sits at the Atlas bar after two years of renovations. Photographer: Franz Navarrete/Bloomberg While sourcing the bars plush furnishings, Hwang flew to Spain so she could sit on a chair and and personally test whether its stuffing was comfortable enough for guests. She jokingly describes herself as a nightmare client for design firm Hassell, who worked with Hwang throughout the refurbishment.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-25/secrets-of-the-world-s-biggest-gin-collection-atlas-bar-singapore

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 A LEGENDARY NIGHT AT  THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES

 The legends hidden within the  collections of The National Library of Wales are coming to life! On Saturday  4th March, rogues and heroes, saints and sinners will awake!

 In this, Wales’ Year of Legends,  Ceredigion and Dyfi Biosphere Destination Partnerships are working to bring  the region’s stories to a new and broader audience. As part of this activity,  they have developed a new App with Bangor based digital company, Locly  (www.locly.com) to bring Ceredigion’s legendary landscape to life, delivering  stories, legend based games, activities and information to visitors as they  roam the region with their smartphones. This new app, which works with GPS  and iBeacon technology to locate the user and push content to their devices,  encourages visitors to engage more deeply with the culture of the region and  explore the places and spaces associated with the legends contained on the  app.

 See more at:  https://www.llgc.org.uk/en/information-for/press-and-media/press-releases/2017-press-releases/a-legendary-night-at-the-national-library-of-wales/