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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 21st 2023

We had a pretty busy agenda for today. Yesterday afternoon and at dinner we all searched for a place for Chuck to buy new shoes for the walk. The soles and heels of both shoes started coming off at the end of yesterday's walk. I contacted our taxi transfer service about taking us to Tenby to a sporting goods store called Millets. Michael called to confirm that he could take Chuck and I on this round trip to Tenby. When we got back to Pembroke he would take the five of us to see St Govans Hermit Hut on the coast at the eastern edge of Castlemartin firing range. The trip to Tenby was successful. Chuck has a new pair of boots. St Govans was an interesting stone hut. He lived about 630 to 640. The ... read more
Chuck and new shoes
Ready to walk down to St Govans hut
Some history of the Hermitage

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 20th 2023

Thursday 20 July 2023, Pembrokeshire Coastal Path - Angle to Pembroke day 6 of our walk. Alltrails app: 5 hours 12 minutes walking. 12 miles, 1004 feet elevation gain We started walking 0.68 miles before joining the navigation track leaving Angle. At 0930 started. Finished about 1500 Garmin forerunner 25: 5 hours 12 minutes walking. 11.96 miles. 1046 feet elevation gain. After breakfast at the Coach House Hotel we were able to walk across main street to the co-op store for lunch items At 0900 Michael was here to shuttle us back to Angle for our start today. He originally left us at West Angle but we had passed this yesterday so he dropped us off on the east side of Angle where we found the trail marker to start our hike. This stage is mostly ... read more
Along the morning path beside the bay
Jo coming through the wheat field to the gate
Barley field with Jo on the Path

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 19th 2023

Wednesday 19 July 2023, Pembrokeshire Coastal Path (PCP) from Freshwater West beach to Angle Bay. Day 5 Alltrails app: 5 hours 31 minutes walking, 8.87 miles, 810 feet elevation gain Started walking about 0945. Picked up be Michael about 1530 Garmin forerunner 25: 5 hours 32 minutes, 9.09 miles, 686 feet elevation gain. After another great breakfast at Porclew House, we bid farewell and paid for our lunches. Michael, our taxi shuttle service driver, was right on schedule for 0900 transfer to Freshwater West and the start of the days hike to Angle Bay. What looks like an artesian spring was bubbling around some rocks at the high point on the beach. Leaving the beach we started the first of about seven relatively steep up and down features of today's trail. The views of the sea ... read more
 Deb and Gary walk past the artesian spring at Freshwater West
Hikers ahead on the trail starting up from the beach
Freshwater West beach - about 1 mile long

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 18th 2023

Tuesday 18 July 2023. Day 4 of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. Alltrails app: 3 hours 12 minutes 7.47 miles. 348 feet elevation gain Started walking about 0945. Got to freshwater west about 1250. Garmin forerunner 25: 3 hours 14 minutes walking. 7.51 miles. 270 feet elevation gain. Our shuttle taxi driver for our pickups and drop offs has been great. He picked up the four of us at just past 0900. Deb elected to not go out in the rain and enjoy this lovely B&B, Yes, it is raining steadily. Forecast was for about 0.2 inches to fall at 0.01 to 0.03 inches per hour most of the day. Our call about the Castlemartin firing range indicated closed but was mostly unintelligible to us. So we searched for and found a website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/castlemartin-firing-notice--2/castlemartin-firing-notice-july-2023 This website clearly ... read more
Unloading to start the day
Flowers on drive near the start at Bosherston
Bosherston

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke March 25th 2019

We are reaching the end of our first shake down trip of 2019. It has been a funny old trip as we have come to get to grips with living in Gabby again. No longer does it feel strange and items are now to hand. Unlike a week ago when I struggled to find anything. Could we live in her full time? Debateable. She is smaller than Suzy and we would be likely to fall over each other particularly in inclement weather. In the summer with an awning would be a different kettle of fish altogether. Being abroad would too. We love her seats. The Captains seat swivel. We love the table. Two things we lacked in Suzy. We love the made up beds. Such a luxury. Do I miss the oven or the microwave. Sometimes. ... read more
The Carew Cross
Carew Castle
The gatehouse

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke March 24th 2019

Gabby the motorhome looks like an agricultural vehicle. She has been driven down miles and miles of narrow lanes and been splattered with mud. She no longer looks gold coloured. The reason she looks like an agricultural vehicle is due to the mud we have driven through as we pulled in and out of passing places. She has rubbed herself on the hedgerows which crowded in on her. She is going to need a serious dose of cleaning when we get home. So why are we heading down all these narrow lanes. We are heading in the direction of Mill Bay. I doubt many find their way to Mill Bay. We read blogs from motorhomers who base their trips on a theme. They follow the mighty rivers of Europe from source to the sea. They follow ... read more
We didnt make it to the headland

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke March 22nd 2019

Gabby the motorhome is parked up on our plot at Kiln Park. First job to try the showers out. They do work eventually but at first the water is cold. It feels as cold as the weather we are experiencing. Gabby is hooked up to the electricity, the gas is working well but there is no WiFi on site. We have to walk down to the restaurant and terrace to get free WiFi. So we don't bother. We are parked up on a plot which sits on an area called Daffodil. Each road has its own name. The field next door Poppy. We have seagulls landing on the roof of our neighbours . They do struggle flying against the wind. Wobbling about we jokingly refer to this as the "s"eagull has landed in deference to the ... read more
Pembroke Castle
This is why we are here
What is there not to love about dark passages

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 21st 2018

We set off from Laugharne after a great breakfast at Brown’s. I had Eggs Benedict while Fletcher had smoked salmon scrambled eggs. Yummy. We said farewell to Jude and Milly and then Fletcher discovered he had left a wallet containing American dollars and other denominations of cash back in our hotel room in Swansea. So, it was on the road and a rapid commute to there. Fortunately, when we got back to The Grand Hotel, someone had found it and it was in their safe, Phew!!! We then set off to drive to St David’s. We had seen this on one of the Antiques Roadtrips programs and it looked fascinating. The road took us through Haverfordwest and on to the westernmost part of Wales. The scenery along the coast was striking and the drive was relatively ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke August 29th 2010

After leaving the USA we had a whistle-stop tour around the UK visiting all the family. It finished with a trip to West Wales where we met up with our friends from the South Wales Travelbugs. Our long weekend was curtailed somewhat by us getting a contract with the British Council in Tunis meaning we had to leave on the Sunday morning! On Friday afternoon we arrived at the National Trust Centre at Stackpole, Pembrokeshire. The sun was shining and we did our first of several walks out along the cliff tops. Once we got back it was time to get into our room and several of the group had arrived so it was time to catch up with old friends and make new ones. It was so good to see everyone again. Dinner was well ... read more
Stackpole Centre
8 Arch Bridge
Stackpole Fishponds

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Pembrokeshire » Pembroke July 3rd 2010

A: One in the front, one in the back. (Drew here, sorry for the delay) I had to wait a good twenty minutes before I could talk to a bank manager. All I needed to do was change my billing address, but everything’s a bit more involved here. The manager interviewing me noticed my current billing address. ‘So, you live in London then?’ ‘Not really, I was just staying there for a week’ ‘Ok’ … ‘lived there your whole life?’ she was concentrating so hard on the screen that she could only manage to slur this question out the side of her mouth. ‘No… I’ve never lived in London. I was born here in Hythe but moved to New Zealand when I was five. I’ve never been back before, so it’s quite nice visiting old family ... read more
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