The Worms Head Hotel Swansea

Back at the St. Brides Spa Hotel in Saundersfoot.<br>Unfortunately, winter doesn't make this the best place to stay. It's dark when you are at the hotel, so you don't get the views. And the spa doesn't stay open late enough in the winter. At least I will get to enjoy it over the weekend.<br>And the walk along the coast - kind of scary in the dark. But you do get to see a bunch of stars and parts of the Milky Way because there isn't much light pollution out here.<br>

A pretty well preserved castle. <br><br>One of the main towers was closed for some work, so I didn't get to climb everything. And the other tower is reserved for bats.<br><br>Did have an interesting little chapel.<br><br>Good views of the castle across the water.<br>

Ok, this is just a quick check that all is running smoothly with the blog, as I've had some problems. Hopefully You're all now getting e mail updates when a new entry is posted. We've also retrieved the log in details for the travelpod account we created last year so that you can log in and make (nice!) comments. Well done ...

... exactly helped; how inconvenient! Anyway, everything is now booked; flights, cat into cattery, rental car to airport, Gatwick hotel, car hire in the US, 4 US hotels, 2 US houses, 1 US condo, and rental car from airport. Now I have to think about packing.......<br>

We woke up in our swanky hotel room the day after our fantastic wedding. We had spent two days celebrating with all of our closest freinds and family. It had been an emotional roller coaster of a weekend (for me anyway) and we were both exhausted... Today was going to be excruciatingly long and hung over!... <br>Simons only job during the preparation was to organise the honeymoon and keep the destination a secret ...

Booked with Clyne Farms to go horse-back riding on the beach. But first we had to get our skills evaluated because when the horses see the wide open expanse of beach, they want to gallop. I was all for this. But it wasn't meant to be apparently. I've never ridden an English saddle before and it's been years since I've ridden a horse. Same with Jacqui. So the instructor said she ...

So on the last day we headed back to London. We drove past Port Talbot (but didn't stop) but was still interesting to me as you could see the outline of the steelworks and I sat there and guess what was what (yes I am a very sad person)<br> <br> We stopped at Caerphilly which has the 2nd largest castle in the UK (Winsor is the largest) - it even had a moat. This was pretty cool as it was actually a nice ...

... I was a bit nervous about that as it would cost £2500 to replace the bike. <br><br>We wandered around town, had a pint at the Castle Hotel, another at the White Horse then grabbed a table for dinner at the Angel, which proved to be a good choice. I had butternut squash soup and a blue rump steak while Sarah had huge, tasty prawns and a swordfish steak with excellent chips.<br>

... walking got a bit hairy as the cliffs got steeper. At one point Nik is still walking along like he is on flat pavement and I'm muddling my way through the rocks and holes and then I accidentally look down and get totally freaked out cling to the hillside and inch backwards very, very slowly. Then on the different route Nik picked (instead of going around the cliff we back track and go over it!) I fall flat on my face after being scared by some cows, he really can't take me anywhere ...

After a long drive down to Swansea we met up with Emma, Chris and Nicki for a few jars on the Friday night in Swansea, escorted home by Terry Terry Terry taxi man. Full of bacon butties we left Emma's (cheers!) on Saturday morning and headed off, a little delicate, in the pouring rain to the "valleys". Checked in to the B&B and had a steak sandwich on the go, whilst trying to fit in to our costumes. And as if by magic, driving up to the castle the sun came out and the rain stopped ...