Blogs from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Because we haven't had a holiday this year and our big one isn't coming up til the Autumn, back in July we spent 3 nights in a friends' caravan in the beautiful reort of Tenby, Pembrokeshire in South Wales. The weather prospects were rather dire so we took warm clothes, books, DVD's and no sunscreen. We would regret that last omission! The caravan is actually 5 miles from Tenby in the tiny village of Manorbiere. It's quiet, pretty and a lovely spot for oldies like us or families with young children. We drove straight there - almost all the way on the M4. To our delight the sun came out as we arrived in Tenby and from thereon it was warm (even hot!) apart from as we drove towards the caravan park and I commented on ... read more

Our love affair with Wales continues. I found a cottage with my usual thrift and speed - a week later we were off to the West with Eesvan and Ro, a doctor and a lawyer. They're not as bad as they sound. We picked said individuals up from Oxford and forged ahead. Things got amusing when the normally infallible Tomtom started to play up - having decided we felt peckish, we instructed the machine to find sustenance. It found us a rabbit. The blasted satnav decided that instead of taking us to the motorway services stop via, say, the motorway, it would indulge in a geographical flight of fancy and take us via the small backroads. On the backroads, I squashed a rabbit (they're pests here, be ye not squeamish). Thus the makers of Tomtom are ... read more

This weekend we decided to venture west and visit the beautiful Pembrokshire Coastal Path. Basically they have established a 186 mile walking trail in the South West corner of Wales which hugs the coast line all the way. Being the 9-5 slaves we now are, we ventured off on Friday night, Jason catching the train from Newport to Bridgend while Kirstyn frantically purchased an entire camping get-up for the weekend! We made it across to Freshwater East a little after 8 and suprisingly managed to erect our unseen tent in the dark without too much hassle. It was great to be back out camping again enjoying some basic camp food on our new, cheap imitation trangia, as well as a drop of beer and vino! The next morning after a hearty brekkie we walked down to ... read more

Well mum and dad turned up all ok and in one piece after a few days in bangkok before flying into London. I went to London, spent one night with them, then they hired a car and dad actually drove out of London to Bristol!!!! I think mum nearly chewed off all her nails, but we arrived with out actually taking any wrong turns!!! On the Friday we took off to Wales and to the B & B we were going to stay in for the long weekend over here which actually falls on Jule's birthday!! We were going to meet his mum and dad which I think all went very well. The B&B was quite a cute little place set on 20 acres, we actually took all three rooms, so we had it to ourselves. ... read more