Manobier and Tenby

 After a visit to Lou (during which we went up Pen-y-Fan) I went West via a visit to dour Camarthen, to a small site at Jameston. There was a little village with a great pub, and a bus you could take all along the coast on a day rover ticket.

I took the bus in to Tenby, and visited the museum which had a letter from Darwin, information about the instigator of the equals symbol (Robert Recorde), the pyjamas of Dylan Thomas and collections of memorabilia from Roald Dahl, and Welsh lefty actor Kenneth Griffith. The art gallery had some Gwen John and Nicky Wire (Manics).

Then I bus-hopped to Manobier beach, had an ice-cream and saw an old neolithic tomb on the cliffside, called the King's Quoit Cromlech.

Finally I checked out Skrinkle Haven, which looked like a crusty's favourite spot - for a future visit.



I broke the journey up to meet Angela with a stop off at a fabulous valley-top view at Sugarloaf Viewpoint, and to the small town of Knighton (with a well-stocked organic foodshop).

Angelsey with Dad

On route to Ireland I had a night at a spectacular CL on Anglesey. I'd picked it because it was near the South Stack lighthouse that Dad had famously failed to find when leading a school geology field trip.

RSPB The Range

His ashes had been under my bed for two years, and the time had finally come to say farewell in a dignified manner. So I  chucked him off a cliff.

Evening brought a beautiful sunset, and the next morning I just had time to visit Ty Mawr Hut Circles, an ancient monument. Lovely wildflowers everywhere.