South Wales

Today we had grand intentions of going across south Wales to the Blue Lagoon and coming back via Pembrokeshire National Park.

When Google Maps advised a different route taking twice as long as planned due to an accident on the M4, we decided to stay local and what a great result that was for us. The Iron-man even that was centered in Tenby over the weekend created absolute mayhem traffic wise, but eventually we found a park right outside Boots Pharmacy, which we were trying to find.

Why is that so good?  Because Boots pharmacy used to be a wine merchant dwelling, and it was from here that Henry VII was smuggled from underground tunnels to the bay to escape to France, he then formed an army in France which came back and took back the throne, fathered Henry VIII who as we know started the Protestant Church of England church and ousted the Catholics from England, and the rest we say is history.

From here we took a walk through Tenby and its beaches, and the pictures do not do it justice.

We headed over the Saundersfoot a poor mans Tenby apparently, then to Pembroke for the Castle, where Henry VII was born.  That was awesome,  I climbed the Great Keep stairs, exactly 100 steps, then descended them, that was harrowing but I survived.  I'll be honest at one point I thought I would have to be carried out I was feeling ill at ease with the whole thing.

Next it was off to Barafundle Bay.  An awesome walk in the Welsh countryside, hard yakka for me, but the views and photography experience was brilliant, my photos do not do it justice.  It was pure storybook magic.

Back to the car for more countryside driving, which I have to say is awesome, even at low speeds with the road edging so close, you feel like you are going very fast, its awesome.  Gave a few brown pants moment to locals as they came across us at speed and they were cutting corners.  It was like a WRC experience in real life.  I'd love to do this on a motor bike, think Isle of Mann TT, and you get my drift.  (The roads a quite narrow and tree lined so it feels like a tunnel and sure enough Sean morphed into a rally driver.)

Then it was back to St Florence, the little village near our B&B. We feel like today we had a holiday from our holiday, it has been such a great day.


2019-09-16 - St Florence (Elm Grove) Early Morning
2019-09-16 - South Wales