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- Not far from: Abergele, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Brymbo, Buckley, Colwyn Bay, Oswestry, Prestatyn
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Getting There
Cardiff is a good two-and-a-half hour drive from London, via the M4. Once in Wales, a car's a must if you want to do any exploring. Driving here, especially on minor roads, can be a real pleasure.
Cardiff Airport (www.cwlfly.co.uk) and Bristol Airport (www.bristolairport.co.uk) are the closest international links.
Train travel in Mid-Wales is scenic if not super-reliable: the Heart of Wales line (www.heart-of-wales.co.uk) runs daily between Llandrindod Wells and Llandovery. From Shrewsbury, trains run east to Machynlleth and Aberystwyth. Arriva Trains Wales (0845 606 1660; www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk) operates most services.
Local Knowledge
Country code for the UK: 44.
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin; The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce; Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas; Red Kite Country by Mike Reid and Colin Woolf.
Do go / Don't Go
It's all about the weather: seasonal serendipity will decide whether you enjoy a roaring fire or a beach barbecue, though a summer's day is always likely to be bracing rather than baking. Beaches fill up on summer bank holidays but remember, a crisp winter walk can be extra special when you've got the whole valley, beach or hillside to yourselves.
Try fish, fresh from river and ocean, local cheeses, leek soup, bara brith (a dried-fruit loaf), laver bread (made with seaweed), local lamb and black beef.
Outside Cardiff, you'll have to pre-book or find out if there's a decent local firm via your hotel.
As in the rest of the UK, a 12.5-15 per cent tip is expected in restaurants; sometimes it's included, sometimes not.
Pound sterling.
Bucket and spade. An audiobook of Under Milk Wood for the car. Umbrella, windcheater, woollies…
Worth Doing
Wales has a Museum of Modern Art on Heol Penrallt in Machynlleth (+44 (0)1654 703355; www.momawales.org.uk) with a bar, cinema and live music as well as permanent and temporary modern art exhibits. Aberystwyth Arts Centre, on the university campus (+44 (0)1970 623232), is the country's biggest, with exhibitions, festivals, comedy, cinema and music.
The Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia's Cadair Idris are well-known and well-frequented; when the high season comes, clued-up walkers decamp to the far less tramped slopes of the Rhinnogs, in south Snowdonia (accessible from Barmouth), or the acres of peaceful moorland in the Begwyns, north of Clyro (not far from Hay-on-Wye).
Running along the border with England and down to the Brecon Beacons, Offa's Dyke is 168 miles of mediaeval rampart and ditch that offers beautiful views.
Among the star turns at the Hay Festival (famously described by Bill Clinton as 'the Woodstock of the mind') are some excellent free events, including interviews with poets and authors. And browsing the dozens of bookshops in Hay costs nothing at any time of year.
May Hay Festival, in Hay-on-Wye (www.hayfestival.com), sees great writers and poets converge to talk, read, drink and argue in border country. July World Bog-snorkelling Championships, Llantyrwyd Wells (+44 (0)1591 610666). August Brecon Jazz Festival (www.breconjazzfestival.co.uk), an international affair attracting big-name performers. The Green Man festival (www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk) is a newly established and already much-loved folk music festival which has recently seen spectacular performances from Joanna Newsom and Bonnie Prince Billy. September Abergavenny Food Festival (www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com), which has been hailed as one of the best of its kind. November Mid-Wales Beer Festival (+44 (0)1591 610666). For more ideas, see our Welsh destination guides for Brecon Beacons, Cardigan Bay, Carmarthen Bay and Vale of Glamorgan, or check out our events guide, Smith 52.


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Like spices to a fine dish, accessories can change an outfit completely. The tone of a look changes from slick and minimal to glamorous grandeur from the switch of a necklace. Flavors intensified or pared down. The jewelry, bags, and play up the personality and fashion a whole new look.
For Fall 2012, that look is daring and bold. This upcoming season, the building blocks of fashion have been carved into new shapes, painted with brighter colors and embellished with the finest jewels. These are the standout must-have accessories for Fall.
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Fashion is all about contradictions. Can we even count how many times we've heard high-low, hard-soft, edgy-romantic, or pretty-ugly just in the last ten minutes? The last in that sequence of fashion buzz words is what Fall 2012 is focusing in on, of course led by the maestro of pretty-ugly, Miuccia Prada. The must have shoe for the adventurously awkward next season is the bulbous, misshapen clown foot silhouette. Models were seen clomping down the runway in these clunky brogues and heels at influential shows like Marc Jacobs, Comme des Garçons, Marni, and Miu Miu.
- Worn best with printed trousers or geeky socks, this new shoe shape is for the fashion risk taker. The flat platform wedge is back to school friendly.
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Clad in sheets of machined aluminium, the Zenbook UX31 is a visual treat. While paying homage to the silhouette of Apple's MacBook Air – it tapers from a curvaceous 21mm at its rear to barely a few millimetres thick at its front edge – Asus' latest manages to retain its own personality. Concentric circles spin across the dark silver lid, the clean, squared-off lines of the interior contrasting starkly with the aggressive exhaust detailing along the hinge.
It isn't perfect. Press your nose to the Asus and it's possible to catch the occasional glimpse of poorly milled metal, the odd area where the fit and finish aren't utterly exemplary. For a first attempt, however, there's no question that the Zenbook is stunning.
That curvaceous metal body leaves the Zenbook UX31 a little heavier than the likes of Toshiba's 1.09kg Portégé Z830, but not by much. At 1.40kg, the Asus is still light enough to almost disappear in a bag, and it's unyieldingly stout too. The rock-solid base and rigid lid make for a machine that feels every inch the match of Apple's 13in MacBook Air. When it comes to build quality, there's simply no other Windows laptop that has the measure of the Zenbook.
And under that glitzy surface beats the heart of a blazingly fast ultraportable. The Core i7 processor runs at a nominal 1.8GHz, turbo-boosting up to 2.9GHz as and when the extra speed is required, and is partnered with an equally nippy SSD. It's a potent combination, and enough to push the Asus in to pole position in our Real World Benchmarks, with a result of 0.62.
It all makes for a laptop that breezes through everyday tasks. A cold boot sees the Windows desktop appear in around 20 seconds, and thanks to Asus' Instant On technology, the Zenbook UX31 wakes from sleep in around two seconds. It's the perfect travelling companion, too, with 8hrs 53mins in our light-use battery test. The Asus isn't only fleet of foot, it keeps going once many of its rivals have skulked back to the mains socket.
It's hard not to be seduced by the Zenbook UX31's charms. The Bang & Olufsen-branded speakers conjure a reasonably crisp sound, while the display above stretches a spacious 1600 x 900 resolution across its 13.3 inches. With every other laptop here settling for a lower 1366 x 768, the Asus' extra pixels are welcome.
There are disappointments, however, and the display provides the first. It's blindingly bright – the maximum brightness of 506cd/m2 is exemplary – but the image quality is far from perfect. The high 7051k colour temperature leaves images with a blue tint, while the 204:1 contrast ratio leaves it struggling to reveal detail in darker scenes.
Back when we first reviewed the Zenbook UX31, we had a variety of complaints with the glass touchpad. Thankfully, though, the intervening months have seen the release of updated drivers that have solved many of the issues.
The glass surface feels just as smooth under the finger as it ever did, and the updated drivers have made a big difference in responsiveness, helping cursor movement feel more immediate, and leaving the touchpad a little less prone to the jitters. The three-fingered upward swipe to activate Flip 3D remains a little unreliable, though.
The Asus' keyboard is potentially more divisive. The Scrabble-tile keys are well proportioned with wide channels pooling between, and while there isn't much travel to each keystroke, the firm action initially makes for a luxurious-feeling keyboard. It isn't brilliant, though, feeling a little dead under the finger compared to the best, and with lighter keypresses often failing to register. This is a keyboard that requires a firm prod at every stroke.
The final niggle is the lack of backlighting. For those that would rather not find themselves floundering in the dark, it's a fairly crucial omission.
In terms of connectivity, there's an understandable shortage, but it's better than some other Ultrabooks. Asus has squeezed in a single USB 3 port on the right, and an SD card reader, headphone output and USB 2 port on the left. There's no room for full-sized video connections, but you do get mini-D-SUB and micro- HDMI sockets. Network connectivity is nothing to write home about, though, with single-band 802.11n and Bluetooth 4, but there is at least a USB Ethernet adapter provided.
Asus also provides a D-SUB adapter in the box – both squeezing into a natty little travel pouch – and the fashion-conscious will appreciate the matching padded sleeve for the laptop itself. The final touch is the power supply: Asus is one of the few manufacturers to adopt a dainty little wall-wart PSU.
There's no doubt this Asus Zenbook is a great laptop. It has the all-important wow factor, it's gorgeous to look at, powerful, beautifully built, and that gleaming high-resolution display puts most of its rivals in the shade. It isn't perfect, however, and if Dell had managed to settle on a price for its XPS 13, the UX31 would have been pushed into second place. As it stands, however, the Asus Zenbook UX31 is our Labs winner, however the pricetag seems a little steep when compared with what it is going for overseas.
This Review appeared in the April, 2012 issue of PC & Tech Authority Magazine
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