Welsh holidays - Alan
Alan Ashcroft
Created on October 2, 2024
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Alan Ashcroft
Holidays in West Wales
There are many different types of holiday you can havein West Wales from staying in hotels to caravans, and camping and all of them in very different types of enviroment from staying in very busy towns to very isolated places where you could be the only person there. You can visit very large and busy beaches to isolated ones where you are the only person there or you can walk up various hills like the Preselli Hills where you could spend all day without seeing another person or stay in places like Tenby, Saundersfoot and Newport that are very busy.
Holidays in West Wales
This is a view of Tenbywhere there various beaches and many Hotels and is usualy a very busy place. You can get a variety of hotels from reasonably priced to very expensive The beaches are very nice but again they are normaly very busy.
Holidays in West Wales
The Gwaun Valley
The Gwaun Valley is a pretty place just outside Fishguard and Newport. It is steeped in history and has many places of interest to visit such as the walk to the waterfalls and the main one in my mind is The Dyffryn Arms at Pontfaen.If you asked most of the people around there where the Dyffryn Arms was you would probably get a blank look as it is known around the world as Bessie's becauseof the formidable Bessie Davies who ran the place for over sixty years but sadly passed away three years ago.Like the rest of the valley it is lost in a time capsule. Another anomally about the Gwaun Valley is that they still follow the tradition of the pre-1752Julian calender and celebrate the New Year on the 13th January.
This is a photograph of the waterfall that you can reach ifyou drive to the middle of the valley where you will find a loop off the road where you can park your car and cross the bridge over the river and follow the path through the farm andfollow the path right up to the waterfallwhich is about a fifteen miniute walk.
The Gwaun Valley Continued. The Dyffryn Arms"Bessies"
The inside of the pub is one room and it dosen't have a bar as such but a hatch in the wall where the drinks are served direct from the barrel into a jug and then into a glass and there is only one type of beer sold there Bass. This pub is known all over the world and has been named pub of the year by CAMRA
Another place of interest is the village of Mynychlog Ddu in the Preselli hills where you can pick up a footpath that will take you to a quarry where the Bluestones in Stonehenge came from, the quarry is called Waun Mawn and is the result of an upsurge in the earths surface so that the stones are vertical. The stones were not taken
direct to Stonehenge but were from a circle in the Preselli hills erected about one thousand years before Stonehenge.
This is a photo of the original stone circle in the Preselli hills where the Bluestones originally came from.
The last recorded invasion of Britian was in 1797 by the French Navy. Acording to local legend there were very few soldiers in Fishguard at the time so a local lady whose name was Jemima Nicolas colected the local ladies dressed in the local dress of the time complete with their tall black hats and carrying pitchforks marched around and around a local hill and the French thought it was a very large contingent of soldiers so they decided to surender and came ashore at Goodwick and signed at the Royal Oak on Fishguard Square
Thank you for visiting my Genially page, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did working on it and hope it will encourage you to visit the beutiful area of West Wales