Gower peninsula, Tenby and St Davids. - Sunday 13-8-23
The next day we said our goodbyes and headed off to Wales.
Joining the M5 at Weston-s-Mare, over the Severn Bridge and along the M4 we were on The Gower Penninsula
in about 3 hours. The weather was really sunny and warm, so we spent the afternoon on the beach at Oxwich Bay then moved on to our parkup for the night at The King Arthur Hotel.
The weather still sunny, we went to Rhossili in the morning and had breakfast overlooking the bay and a wander around to take in the view.
After lunch we headed further north, stopping at Llanelli beach for a coffee, then on to our pubstop at The Fox and Hounds near Camarthen.
This turned out to be quite convenient, as I had to work the next day, and their wifi reached the carpark so I didn't
have to hook up the laptop to my phone. Leaving at lunchtime, we took a short drive to Tenby, and after a little more work on the laptop, spent the rest of the afternoon on the beach.
Our stop for the night was a campsite, at Upper Porthclew Farm, at Freshwater East, which had great views over the bristol channel.
We spent the whole of the next day back in Tenby. Parking in Tenby can be a nightmare at the height of the season, especially on a nice sunny day if you don't arrive first thing in the morning, which we didn't. However, as luck would have it, parking at the leisure centre on the outskirts was mainly empty, and free, from where we took a bus into the centre. After exploring the town, we spent a few hours on the beach, then late in the afternoon drove up toward St Davids to our stop for the night, The Duke of Edinburgh Inn, right on the beach at St Brides bay.
Heading off to St Davids the next morning, we stopped at a small cafe in Solva on the way, and had some georgeous MamGu welshcakes. If you like a welshcake, these are a cut above the rest. I mentioned in the last blog entry that Wells was the smallest city in the United Jingdom, but actually it is St Davids. It is possible that Wells was at one time, because St Davids lost its city status in 1886, but regained it in 1994. It certainly has a beautiful cathedral though, not as ornate as Wells, but much more traditionally church shaped.
Leaving St Davids, we took the scenic route along the coast to Fishguard. Knowing Fishguard to be a ferry port to Ireland, I expected something
akin to Folkstone or Dover, but was pleasantly surprised to find it a quite unassuming small coastal town, with the Lower Town still retaining the
atmosphere of a small fishing village. We had a look around the shops and a coffee, then moved further north to our pubstop a little way up the coast,
at Pwllgwaelod beach overlooking Fishguard Bay, The Sailors Safety.
