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Byddai’n daith gerdded o gwmpas Cymru o tua mil o filltiroedd, taith a fyddai’n dangos Cymru i mi o safbwynt hollol newydd, yn edrych ar y tu mewn o'r tu allan, taith na fyddai gan y rhan fwyaf na’r amser na’r awydd i roi cynnig arni, taith y gwyddwn i, po fwyaf roeddwn i'n ceisio ei hanwybyddu, y byddai’n rhaid i mi roi cynnig arni.
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5 May 2012, the date of the official opening of the Wales Coast Path was also the day that a tiny seed was planted somewhere in the back of my mind, a seed that over the subsequent 15 months slowly germinated and gradually changed from being just a frivolous idea to becoming a naive but definite commitment to walk not only the path but Offa’s Dyke as well. It would be a walk around Wales of 1000 miles or so; a walk that would allow me to see Wales from a completely new perspective, from the outside looking in; a walk that relatively few would find the time or the inclination to try; a walk that the more I tried to ignore became something I knew I had to try. Retirement from the Welsh Government at the end of August 2013 meant that the time for excuses and further procrastination was over. It was time to ‘just do it’. If nothing else it would give me a couple of months to gorge myself on the beauty, uniqueness and idiosyncrasies of Wales before moving on to other, yet to be determined, avenues and interests.
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