Blogs from Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

Monday, 24 July 2023, Happy birthday Charity. Day 9 of the walk. Alltrails app: 3 hours 35 minutes walking. 8.41 miles. 1030 feet elevation gain. Today Gary's new Garmin watch and my alltrails app tracked the same data. Garmin forerunner 25. 3 hours 56 minutes walking. 8.36 miles. 751 elevation gain. This is our last day with our shuttle taxi driver Michael. I wrote a note and we all contributed to a nice gratuity for him. He sent a very sweet thank you text. At 0900 he picked us up for the 20 minute ride back to Dale where he had picked us up last night. We bid farewell to the Ty Hotel. It has been a nice stay. Meals a bit on the expensive side. Tonight Chuck and I are in the Clock House in ... read more

Saturday 22 July 2023, day 7 pembrokeshire coastal path from Pembroke to Milford Haven Alltrails app: 5 hours 44 minutes walking. 12.3 miles. 1010 feet elevation gain. No Garmin data. Gary has much newer Garmin and consistently measures greater distances and elevations. We left the Coach House Hotel a couple of minutes before 0800 and walked the half mile to the start of today's walk at the Pembroke Castle. It rises above us as we walk beside the millpond and cross to the other side. It was raining steadily and wind tended to whip the water into our faces. Rain pants felt very good. We walked mainly on secondary road from Pembroke to Pembroke Dock. This ended one part of the all trails navigation and I had to connect to the next. At a market we ... read more

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

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

Sunday, 16 July 2023. Walk from Tenby to Manobier Castle Beach All trails app: 8.73 miles, 830 elevation gain, 4 hours 41 minutes of walking. Started from Glenthorne Guest House at 0915 finished at 1430. Garmin forerunner 25: 8.71 miles, 895 feet elevation gain, 4 hours and 40 minutes walking. Housekeeping items before the walk included: estimating when we would finish this stage and call Tenby Taxi with the time to pick us up. We agreed on 1500 at the beach car park. We also attempted to call to learn if the MOD firing range was open for us to walk through. Got no answer so we assumed it was. After our breakfast, which began at 0830, we assemble in front to start our walk. We passed from north to south to the beach and started ... read more