Cardigan River and Food Festival

In its 26th year, Cardigan's food festival still sets up right on the Teifi — a marquee of local food stalls, a live music stage, cookery demos, and RNLI and paddleboard displays out on the water for anyone who fancies a look between courses.

It's a proper community event rather than a ticketed spectacle: cheap in, kids free, and small enough to bump into people you know — or make some new ones — over a plate of Welsh produce.