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    <title>Qualla: Trearddur</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Trearddur Bay Sailing Club has more than a thousand members and opens for one month a year. August. The rest of the year the clubhouse sits boarded up above a half-empty beach, the dinghies pulled up under their covers, the slipway empty. Then, suddenly, the second week of August: the boats appear, the bunting goes up, the regatta calendar fills, and a small Welsh seaside village briefly becomes one of the busiest sailing centres on the Irish Sea. By September it is all gone again. The pattern - intense seasonal activity followed by quiet - has shaped Trearddur for over a century. The lifeboat crew, the hotelkeepers, the surf schools, the chip shops, the golf club: nearly everyone's calendar is keyed to the same few weeks. The cliffs and the cove will be here in February. The people will not.]]></description>
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      <title>Trearddur: The Settlement of Iarddur</title>
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      <title>Trearddur: Around the Village</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Above the beach, Trearddur is small enough to walk around in twenty minutes. Two hotels overlook the water: the Trearddur Bay Hotel, large and white, and the smaller Beach Motel. There is one general shop, a garage, a play area, a football pitch where Trearddur Bay FC's four seni...]]></description>
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