after a nice breakfast at 6 oakfield street where we meet our co-guests as well (two americans, mother & daughter, on a two week tour of the UK), we are off via earls court underground to kew gardens! well, eventually … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2008
first class to london, a bohemian b&b, a distributed fridge, visiting victoria and albert
it’s 9:45, our taxi which was supposed to have picked us up at 9:30 is still not there, and our train is due to leave bangor station at 10:18, slowly but surely our adrenalin level is reaching new heights. our … Continue reading
a windy mountain pass, a fantastic vista, an underground walk
after yesterday’s fantastic day out on mount snowdon we are eager to see more of snowdonia. the recent snowdon special issue of country walking — which we brought with us — has a couple of rather scary walks (scrambles, exposed … Continue reading
mount snowdon!
good breakfast at 8:15 today, then we are off to catch the S1 sherpa bus from llanberis to pen-y-pass, the starting point for our ascend to the summit of snowdon! the weather forecast for today is fairly good and the … Continue reading
time-travelling…
after an early breakfast (7:30) we are picked up by tony’s taxi at 8:40 and are taken back to haverfordwest station. rather unexpected but welcome nevertheless there’s a newspaper stand open just inside the station, so i take the opportunity … Continue reading
shopping, culture, sunshine, cwtch
we get up late today, a rocking 30min later than the days before, and, after breakfast, flip the tourist-bit to the on position and make our way into the city of st davids1: fuelling stop at the local delicatessen (biscuits … Continue reading
a lighthouse, an old dachshund, a woollen mill, another fantastic day
the last leg of our pembrokeshire coast path walks today: again, we take the 9:10 strumble shuttle,1 this time from st davids to strumble head — a ride of over an hour! again, it’s the friendly bus driver we already … Continue reading
an overestimated walk, excellent long lunch, more fantastic coast!
having “finished” the southern parts of what we wanted to see of the pembrokeshire coast yesterday, we now turn north again and — due to a breakfast at the earliest possible time (8:00 am) — manage to catch the 9:10 … Continue reading
cliffs, beach, pebbles, unfriendly pub
we pick up where we left off yesterday and take the bus to solva. the coast path picks up on the other side of the harbour and soon starts to climb up again (we are clocking up quite some altitude … Continue reading
isle of ramsay from afar, on the beach, a beer at solva
day 2 of our pembrokeshire adventures. having figured out the shuttle bus to whitesands bay we can’t resist and take it again today — instead of turning north, though, we turn south to walk past the isle of ramsay, around … Continue reading
whitesands bay to porthgain, fantastic weather
after a really nice breakfast we don our walking kit (brought our alpine walking boots with us) and head into the village of st davids’s. at the tourist information centre (tic) we inquire after the shuttle bus between st david’s … Continue reading
glimpses of the sea, of rolling hills, of green tunnels…and of a didgeridoo
the train to haverfordwest takes us past little villages (stop on request only), through rolling hills, past the sea with fantastic colours and eventually into haverfordwest: a small station but (!) — as promised by our b&b landlord and landlady … Continue reading
