August 13, 2004 SOUTH WALES
After several suggestions from our “friends in the know”, we headed out this morning for South Wales...a little seaside village and resort area called Rhosili. The drive there was uneventful, no round about turn arounds, no honks...nothing out of the ordinary except the toll to cross the bridge from England into Wales. We were warned well ahead of time of the impending toll collection, but not the cost of crossing until it was too late to do anything else. Figures, doesn't it? To cross cost 8 pounds (mulitply this by $1.85). From what we could see so far, it was not worth the cost of fuel, toll or time...but we kept on.
As we got close to the little village, the road narrowed and the coastline improved immensely from the basic industrial portion of South Wales that we traversed to here.
Finally at the seaside village, a walk out onto the cliff-side moors was breathtaking and well worth the voyage to get there. Green pastures with grazing sheep, and free range sheep nestled into the sunny spots along the cliffs. We had never seen a sheep “bowing“ or kneeling on its front legs before, but we saw several of them here. The beach was beautiful with the white crested waves crashing shoreside. The were a few bathers, many surfers and some just wading in the surf. A bit too cold for my tastes..and the breeze was invigorating. We had a bite to eat at one of the sea side shacks, expensive, not very tasty, but the beachy atmosphere was great.
We headed for home, much in need of a good nights sleep. We made it back about 5 hours later. Seems we embarked on a diversion that was one of those that we'd rather not experienced mostly because we were too tired to enjoy it.
We decided to take the weekend off and stay close to the cottage because the last few days would be kept full of driving and walking to take in all the sights we could.
Still to see are the Exemoor Coastline on the northern part of the penninsula and the southern penninsula city of Poole.
Digital camera malfunction, so the pictures from here had to be developed before posting. But when they are posted a link for them will be included in the posting.
Please stay safe and remember that you are always on our minds.
As we got close to the little village, the road narrowed and the coastline improved immensely from the basic industrial portion of South Wales that we traversed to here.
Finally at the seaside village, a walk out onto the cliff-side moors was breathtaking and well worth the voyage to get there. Green pastures with grazing sheep, and free range sheep nestled into the sunny spots along the cliffs. We had never seen a sheep “bowing“ or kneeling on its front legs before, but we saw several of them here. The beach was beautiful with the white crested waves crashing shoreside. The were a few bathers, many surfers and some just wading in the surf. A bit too cold for my tastes..and the breeze was invigorating. We had a bite to eat at one of the sea side shacks, expensive, not very tasty, but the beachy atmosphere was great.
We headed for home, much in need of a good nights sleep. We made it back about 5 hours later. Seems we embarked on a diversion that was one of those that we'd rather not experienced mostly because we were too tired to enjoy it.
We decided to take the weekend off and stay close to the cottage because the last few days would be kept full of driving and walking to take in all the sights we could.
Still to see are the Exemoor Coastline on the northern part of the penninsula and the southern penninsula city of Poole.
Digital camera malfunction, so the pictures from here had to be developed before posting. But when they are posted a link for them will be included in the posting.
I am happy to report that the pictures of Rhosili (row c lee) are now available.
Please stay safe and remember that you are always on our minds.
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