Category: Wales
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St. Ann’s Head Lighthouse
Milford Haven has long been considered one of the best deep water harbours in the UK, and is today host to trawlers and oil tankers. However, the approach into Milford Haven can be tricky because there are two groups of reef almost mid channel. The greatest danger is Crow Rock and Toes which lays about…
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Mackrel at Little Haven – Welsh 100 #60
It was Aunty’s Birthday and what better way to celebrate than to have freshly caught local mackerel. The original Welsh 100 list suggest that we should be buying the mackerel from the local fishermen as they land their catch, but I’m not sure whether the compilers of the list have been to New Haven recently.…
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Freshwater West to Castlemartin
Need to be careful here because I don’t want this to become a big moan. This short walk was yet another filling in section, but it must be one of the most uninspiring short walks we’ve done so far. Now I’ve mentioned before trying to find a bus here in South Pembrokeshire on an Easter…
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Manorbier to Freshwater East – Emperors on the path
When we started planning this set of holiday walks we thought we could use the buses to get around enabling us to complete some longer stretches of the coast without too much faffing around. However, we didn’t really take into account that the summer timetables in Pembrokeshire wouldn’t come into force until May. Is it…
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Tenby to Skrinkle Haven
Easter Saturday and we’re braving the buses again., though without much confidence. We got to the bus stop early and sat watching the cyclist go past. It seems this is a popular cycle route. In the 25 minutes we sat on the bench 31 went west but only 5 going east. I’m not suggesting that…
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Saundersfoot to Tenby
Well spring has hit us with a bang. After weeks of cold easterly winds, temperatures dropping regularly to 1C over night the weather has changed. Instead of 6C during the day it’s now 20C – scorchio! We are now filling in some gaps along the Coastal Path in Pembrokeshire. So today was a shortish walk…
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Oxwich to Rhossili
Aunty and I have now completed a major section of the Coastal path this weekend after finishing off another missing bit between Oxwich Bay and Rhossili. This now means we have completed the Gwent, Glamorgan and Gower sections of the path. Our intention was to do this stretch all in one go, but the ‘best…
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North Gower Coast
Aunty and I are still plugging away at the Wales Coastal Path, and still filling in a few missing bits along the south coast. This time it’s third time lucky with our attempt to complete the North Gower Coast, the last two times were rained off. So as part of our first outing with the…
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Swansea to Briton Ferry – Wales Coastal Path
Another in-fill section of the Wales Coastal Path that needed to be completed. This time it was a short section from Swansea to Briton Ferry that essentially joined up with the walk we completed a few days ago between Baglan Burrows and Port Talbot. This section fo the path is certainly not the prettiest, nor…
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A Garage Worth £2 Million?
On our New Years walk from Baglan Burrows to Port Talbot Aunty and I made a brief detour to visit Tai Bach’s newest attraction. Just before Christmas the news was full of the story of a piece of street art that had appeared overnight on the sides of a concrete garage. Now this wasn’t just…
Travels With My Aunt 