Carwyn Jones takes questions from voters at a Labour-sponsored meeting in Gorseinon
Tomos Livingstone writes a guest blog on an outbreak of politicians going on tour to take their messages directly to the people.
With less than a year before the next assembly elections, it seems you're no-one in Cardiff Bay unless you've been on a tour of Wales.
The first minister starts a series of town hall meetings on Thursday night, taking questions from the public in Merthyr Tydfil.
That event's being run by the Welsh government - Carwyn Jones has already started a parallel process of Labour party meetings, gamely allowing cameras to film him last week being hectored by grumpy activists in Gorseinon.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has already completed a circuit of the country. Jane Hutt, the finance minister, has also racked up significant mileage on something called a "Budget Tour".
On Wednesday, Kirsty Williams only travelled a few hundred yards from the Senedd to the St David's Hotel in Cardiff Bay to give her views on the future direction of the Liberal Democrats. But fear not - it turns out it was the first speech in a series, presumably taking in all corners of the world.
It's easy to mock, of course. That's exactly what the leader of the Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, did on Tuesday in response to a question at a press conference on broadcasting policy.
If only, he complained, we hacks got around Wales to listen to politicians making speeches (such as his own last week in Aberystwyth), instead of "staying in Cardiff Bay in the Cardiff bubble, drinking champagne, or prosocco or prosecco, or whatever it is you journalists do here in Cardiff Bay".
As a criticism of one's professional calling it's hard to better, so I won't try.
But we will be doing what we can to update you on what the politicians are doing this summer as they take their messages to the voters.
Why not pop along if they're in your area? If you do, let us know what you think by tweeting @walespolitics.
Now, what's that chilling in the fridge?
