White House 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>

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 ...

OK, here we go again, sat in Lyn's office trying to sort everything out. This year's trip has proved even more complicated to arrange, especially as we're flying out of Gatwick and back into Heathrow. We never like to do things the easy way! Also the dollar hasn ...

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 ...

... it. Traditionally the Welsh aren't very happy aboutthis dam as it doesn't supply them any water - instead the water is sent toBirmingham. However, as it flows pretty much as a river to get there it is animpressive engineering feat.<br><br>We then went to our stop for the night which was out in the middle of nowherein a funky hostel with a big welcome to mexico sign out the front. It waspretty funky and the owner cooked us mexican food for dinner which was reallynice.<br><br>

... stay was at Llandeilo so took us by Carreg Cennan castle, an evocative castle ruin perched spectacularly atop a crag overlooking the Towy valley. Beneath the castle are subterranean tunnels that you can explore. Torches can be hired from the visitor centre.<br><br>On to Llandeilo. We booked into the Cawdor, an old coaching inn, and left my precious steed in the back of the ...

... Swansea is a real nice little place, mostly built in the 50s onwards because it was flattened in the war. Seeing a beach again was lovely, it did feel quite similar to NZ. I was soooo excited when we went out to dinner at Mumbles with some of Nik's friends and I could read the menu! Made a nice change to the last 2 months of guessing and hoping for the best. The next day Nik took me on one of his Welsh 'walks' in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula. The views were spectacular but ...

... comes fro,m this and of a phoenix rising. There was brighton and the football and the pubs and nige and chrissie and dave and rachel and there was amy and laurie and all and there was a sense of finished. then there was the trip home to teaching in tulum then there was the acceptance of who i am now and a general liking of this person moving on up