Manorbier and Shrewsbury

I went to visit Lou in Bridgend, then had a lovely few days in Pembrokshire, see Wales.

Back over the border, I met Angela at Shrewsbury during a tremendously hot weekend.

The folk festival was on, so we saw quite a few dancers dotted around the town.

We spent a day at Ironbridge, really interesting and a nice lunch. I also bought a dress!

Finally, to the oven that was a roman town ruin of Wroxeter. Fascinating stuff but we were baking, so headed home later that day to find some cool.

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).