Bringing fish and seafood from the quay via auctions and wholesalers in curved rows of warehouses through to the end-buyers, it is the last echo of a Tokyo whose loss the governor seems to mourn.

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By the time I reached cave-walled Cwmtydu Beach, I was tuckered out and retired via bus to New Quay, a town four miles away with plentiful harbourside restaurants, such as Traeth, which serves up regionally-sourced duck.

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