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Swansea
... decided it was time for new shoes. Around an hour and a half after entering the store (and after a lot of humming and hah-ing) he bought a new pair, funnily enough a close replica of the pair with holes!! For dinner we went for tea at Dylan Thomas' favourite pub - the "No Sign Wine Bar". Jono decided he would like to try "Brains Beer" and after a few sips concluded it wasn't his favourite drink...at all! I am glad I stuck to orange ...
London (Heathrow) - Swansea
... that much for the tickets to begin with! To chew through time we went into the cafe in the lobby and had a coffee. We got chatting to a nice English lady who had the same idea of passing time while waiting as well. We had a lovely soup for lunch in the cafe before heading to the bus. Practically as soon as the bus started we had both fallen asleep and the next thing we knew we were in ...
The beaches and cliffs of Gower
... to see the remains of the shipwreck Helvetia – turns out we were there on November 1, the very day it sank 125 years earlier.
One of the women, whom I’d met on the Thames Path walk last April, had kindly picked me up at the Swansea train station on arrival and drove me on departure day to the Cardiff station. That helped me avoid long bus connections. Thanks, Allison!
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Not a good start...
Traditionally, a travel blog wouldn't start before the start of the trip. That, however, is a rule I feel the need to break. Along with, as it turns out, one of my digits.
Suffering from a severe surf drought and fancying a final warm up before our great Portuguese adventure, my surfing buddies and I embarked on a familiar trip to Rest Bay, our local surf spot. Awakening to a glorious early morning sunrise, we were in high spirits. ...
Lynton
We spent our first three days at Lynton on the north Devon coast across the Bristol Channel from Wales. Lynton was developed at the top of the hill as a resort town in the 1800's and has a number of great coastal walks. Lynmouth is the town below at sea ...