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If you want to walk along coastal paths, clamber up and down, for free, you have coastal paths galore to explore in all weathers.
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1 Portmeirion
The big attraction in Wales is Portmeirion, Italian style buildings in a tropical setting. The site was used as a film set for the TV series The Prisoner. There's a charge to enter. In high season it's quite crowded.
Portmeirion central piazza from Wikipedia photo by Chris Jones. Jones is a popular surname in Wales.
2 Fishguard
In the far north west is Fishguard, last stop on the train from Paddington, where at Fishguard-Goodwick you catch the ferry to Ireland. You can walk along the coastal paths, and downhill from Fishguard to the Lower Harbour, fresh sea air, and all for free. The bay was used as a setting for Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood filmed starring Welsh Richard Burton who stayed at the Fishguard Bay Hotel. The Bay was also in Moby Dick.
The main sound is the seagulls. In February the hotel is host to Writers Holiday, a weekend event which starts with a Welsh male voice choir and a harpist on the Friday night. They sing in English and Welsh.
If you are looking for tea and cakes, postcards and pictures and souvenirs, flowers in pots, labelled plants and chats to local people, what then?
Portmeirion
https://www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/
3 Dyffryn Fernant Garden
(Dyffryn means valley)
Plants for sale.
Indoor library with floor to ceiling shelves, drinks machine and honesty box.
I was intrigued by their leaflet in the rack at the Fishguard Bay hotel. It gave a guide to where to find plants and some of their history.
Bamboo, which you see in the courtyard, is a quick-growing plant and the symbol of long life in China.
Lily, also in the courtyard and front garden, is the symbol of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Meadowsweet is in the Bog Garden and Waun Fach.
Myrtle, in the Rickyard, is the symbol of new life and rebirth in Europe.
Also in the Rickyard is Holly, which the Romans used for saturnalia, celebrating the God Saturn in December, pre-dating Christmas, a jolly festival when masters and slaves swapped places for a day.
See reviews and photos in TripAdvisor.
4 Penlau Uchaf
Tea room on a hillside farm between Fishguard and Newport (East of Fishguard along the north coast) overlooking Gwaun valley. Farm shop sells lamb. Tea room serves Welsh cakes (like small round pancakes) and sponge cakes. Garden has herbs and flowers. You might hear people speaking in Welsh.
Penlau Uchaf, Gwaun Valley, Fishguard / Newport, SA65 9UA. Tel: +44 1348 881388.
http://www.visitpembrokeshire.com/explore-pembrokeshire/towns-and-villages/gwaun-valley/
From Fishguard you could take the bus down to St David's with its small cathedral. Buses are at long intervals and don't run every day.
Glossary
Welsh-English
dyffryn - valley
Fach - little, small
gärdn - garden
English - Welsh
garden - gärdn
little/ small - fach
valley - dyffryn
Dyffryn Fernant Garden
Christina@dyffrynfernanat.co.uk
www.dyffrynfernant.co.uk
Signed from A487 between Fishguard and Dinas SA65 9SP
Open from the end of March, 12-6 pm, 7 days a week.
£6 per adult in honesty box.
You can buy day tickets for Portmeirion on line, about £6-8.
WALES
https://www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/day-guests/
http://visitwales.com
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotels-g552012-Portmeirion_Gwynedd_North_Wales_Wales-Hotels.html
BRITAIN
https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/
Trains from Paddington, London, to Fishguard/Fishguard and Goodwick, Wales, on Great Western Railway:
gwr.com
writersholiday.net
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
If you want to walk along coastal paths, clamber up and down, for free, you have coastal paths galore to explore in all weathers.
Answers
1 Portmeirion
The big attraction in Wales is Portmeirion, Italian style buildings in a tropical setting. The site was used as a film set for the TV series The Prisoner. There's a charge to enter. In high season it's quite crowded.
Fishguard from the window of Fishguard Bay hotel. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
2 Fishguard
In the far north west is Fishguard, last stop on the train from Paddington, where at Fishguard-Goodwick you catch the ferry to Ireland. You can walk along the coastal paths, and downhill from Fishguard to the Lower Harbour, fresh sea air, and all for free. The bay was used as a setting for Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood filmed starring Welsh Richard Burton who stayed at the Fishguard Bay Hotel. The Bay was also in Moby Dick.
The main sound is the seagulls. In February the hotel is host to Writers Holiday, a weekend event which starts with a Welsh male voice choir and a harpist on the Friday night. They sing in English and Welsh.
Walks from Fishguard Bay hotel. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Path down to the Fishguard Fort. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Fishguard Fort. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
If you are looking for tea and cakes, postcards and pictures and souvenirs, flowers in pots, labelled plants and chats to local people, what then?
Portmeirion
https://www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/
3 Dyffryn Fernant Garden
(Dyffryn means valley)
Plants for sale.
Indoor library with floor to ceiling shelves, drinks machine and honesty box.
I was intrigued by their leaflet in the rack at the Fishguard Bay hotel. It gave a guide to where to find plants and some of their history.
Bamboo, which you see in the courtyard, is a quick-growing plant and the symbol of long life in China.
Lily, also in the courtyard and front garden, is the symbol of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Meadowsweet is in the Bog Garden and Waun Fach.
Myrtle, in the Rickyard, is the symbol of new life and rebirth in Europe.
Also in the Rickyard is Holly, which the Romans used for saturnalia, celebrating the God Saturn in December, pre-dating Christmas, a jolly festival when masters and slaves swapped places for a day.
See reviews and photos in TripAdvisor.
4 Penlau Uchaf
Tea room on a hillside farm between Fishguard and Newport (East of Fishguard along the north coast) overlooking Gwaun valley. Farm shop sells lamb. Tea room serves Welsh cakes (like small round pancakes) and sponge cakes. Garden has herbs and flowers. You might hear people speaking in Welsh.
Penlau Uchaf, Gwaun Valley, Fishguard / Newport, SA65 9UA. Tel: +44 1348 881388.
http://www.visitpembrokeshire.com/explore-pembrokeshire/towns-and-villages/gwaun-valley/
From Fishguard you could take the bus down to St David's with its small cathedral. Buses are at long intervals and don't run every day.
Glossary
Welsh-English
dyffryn - valley
Fach - little, small
gärdn - garden
English - Welsh
garden - gärdn
little/ small - fach
valley - dyffryn
Dyffryn Fernant Garden
Christina@dyffrynfernanat.co.uk
www.dyffrynfernant.co.uk
Signed from A487 between Fishguard and Dinas SA65 9SP
Open from the end of March, 12-6 pm, 7 days a week.
£6 per adult in honesty box.
You can buy day tickets for Portmeirion on line, about £6-8.
WALES
https://www.portmeirion-village.com/visit/day-guests/
http://visitwales.com
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotels-g552012-Portmeirion_Gwynedd_North_Wales_Wales-Hotels.html
BRITAIN
https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/
Trains from Paddington, London, to Fishguard/Fishguard and Goodwick, Wales, on Great Western Railway:
gwr.com
writersholiday.net
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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