Along the Coast or Wales the third

Believe it or not, over night the weather had changed dramatically and when we opened our curtains we just saw blue sky and the most gorgeous Welsh landscape.

So we hurried to get ourselves sorted out and headed for breakfast, which was as great as the day before. The good thing about the traditional English breakfast (I prefer the Irish by the way) is that after you had it, you won't need any food till 5 in the afternoon, because you feel like a stuffed turkey! A selection of Cereals with fresh milk from the farm, followed by rashers, homemade saussages, tomatoes, fried egs and mushrooms - all with toast and coffee, tea and orange juice - just delicious!

We really enjoyed our two nights at the farm, because everybody was soo friendly and we felt at home there. By the way, our room was the right one on the first floor!

This day was dedicated to explore the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and as the weather remained dry and quite warm, it was the best day of our trip by far. We drove south towards Cardigan, where we had a look around the bussling town. I got really stressed there because of the traffic and nearly got into a heated argument with Vanessa (she was the one reading the road map that day). But we finally made our way to the ruins of an abbey in St. Dogeneal's. Walking around there gave me enough time to cool down and I had also time to play with my camera!

After a short stop at Fishguard harbour, we went straight into the Pembrokeshire National Park. It is unique in Britain as the only National Park that is predominantly coastal. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is one of Britain's smaller National Parks, covering approximately 240 square miles / 620 square km around the West Coast of Wales.

First we went inland to see the standing stones called Pentre Ifan. The weather was still great, but it was freezing!!!! The wind was soo strong and cold. So we did not spent too much time there and as it was in the middle of nowhere, the roads were not too good either and it took us quite some time to get back on the main road. We also encountered a huge herd of cows which delayed us even further!

We decided to take a short walk along the famous coastal path whiches stretches along the whole of southern Wales. The view and the landscape was breathtaking and the cliffs even though not as high as the cliffs of Moher quite spectacular. It was definitely one of the best things we did on our whole trip.

I really love Wales and it reminded me so much of Ireland which I really miss - just the colour of the grass is different, the Irish has a richer green, well more emerald as they say. After that we hardly wanted to leave the coast again, but our last stop for the day was supposed to be St. David's, one of the most lovely towns I have seen in the UK. It is quite small, but it is dominated by the archbishop's palace and the huge Cathedrale.

Unfortunately there was a concert that night and we were not able to have a look inside. We wandered along the streets and tried to find a fish and chips shop, but we could not really find one and decided to make our way to our B&B in Haverford West.

This B&B turned out to be more like hotel and it lacked all the charm of the farm. I did not really like it there (the landlord was really grumpy) and I missed the noise of our toilet (as they were not connected to some kind of sewage on the farm, they had a small "disposal unit" in each toilet!). But the shower was warm and that was all that counted that night. It was a pitty that Vanessa was too tired to have a walk around the town and so we stayed in that night and left straight after breakfast next morning to get to Cardiff as soon as possible.