Don’t buzzzzzz-off There’s no clearer sign of the beginning of the long warm, balmy summer months (we hope) than spotting a bright yellow and black little bumblebee buzzing around the pretty shrubs and flowers in the garden. Bumblebees are one of the quintessential signs of summer, but they’ve been hitting the headlines recently because their…

Are you feeling hot, hot, hot? Last summer was a scorcher wasn’t it? Here at the Oakeley Arms we remember the long, hot summer days, the balmy nights, the bustling beer garden and the jolly customers, all too happy to be basking in the sunshine with a pint of lovely cool ale in hand. Surely…

Rock Photography Exhibition opens in Conwy We have been known to let our rock hair down and grab an air guitar on a Saturday night here at the Oakeley Arms Hotel Bar in Snowdonia, and if you’re a fan of all things rock’n’roll too then you’re going to love a new exhibition that has come…

Fool for a day….. Pinch, punch, first of the month, so the old saying goes. But the 1st of April is a particularly funny start to the month because it is April Fools Day. Here at the Oakeley Arms Hotel in Snowdonia, we love a good practical joke or two so it got us to thinking…

Valuable Paintings A few weeks ago we wrote about a missing lottery ticket that could hold the key to a secret fortune, just waiting to be collected. Well it seems that there are hidden treasures popping up all over Wales. In a small cottage in Welshpool, not far from us here at the Oakeley Arms,…

Dare to bare for Cancer Research One of the biggest news stories this week is how a trend on the social networking site Facebook went viral and has raised over £2 million for the Cancer Research UK charity with the No Make-Up Selfie campaign. And, like a lot of people across the country it has…

Life’s a Welsh Farm Last year we featured an blog post about an incredible Tweeting Farmer who not only had overcome incredibly difficult winter conditions whilst trying to survive one of the harshest winters in living memory, but had also captured the public’s imagination with his frank, honest and often witty take on life as a…

Battle of the Celts So, the time has come around again. Tomorrow will be Wales’ very last match of the 2014 RBS 6 Nations Championships, against fellow Celtic team Scotland. Here at the Oakeley Arms we’ll be sad, as always, to see the end of the championship. It’s a great time of year for us…

Winning Ticket mystery “Who wants to be a millionaire? Weeeeeee do!!” News reached us here at the Oakeley Arms this week that just a stone’s throw from the hotel, over in Conwy county there’s a great lottery mystery going on. Apparently a Euro Millions lottery ticket worth over £1 million has been unclaimed since the end…

Old Rivals The RBS 6 Nations Rugby Championship is well under way, and the Welsh team seem to be holding their own at last after a somewhat shaky start. Their victory against France a few weeks ago means that their bid to keep hold of the 6 Nations trophy is back on track. And the…