Three Towns Forum
Members' Lounge => Travel => Topic started by: Hugo on September 22, 2010, 03:34:18 pm
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Just come back from a holiday in Tenby, it was my first visit there but hopefully not my last. The dry warm weather obviously helped but the resort is beautiful with 3 clean sandy beaches.
North Shore
Harbour
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South Shore Tenby
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Lovely pics Hugo brings back happy memories of when we stayed at Kiln Park caravan site. Tenby is a super place.
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Just had a look at the video of Kiln Park and it looks great for a holiday Barbiroli. There's loads of good beaches in that area and some nice villages too. On our coach trip to St Davids we passed a lovely village called Solva but the coach didn't stop there. :( so we'll go there when we're next in Tenby
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My husband and the family (me excluded don`t like the water) went to Caldey Island from Tenby Harbour to see the Monastery they enjoyed the trip.
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We didn't get to Caldy Island as there were coach trips laid on for us but we'll do it next time. Instead we shopped at the Caldy Island produce shop in Tenby and bought some chocolate there.
One couple from our hotel visited the Island but as they had walking difficulty they never left the landing stage area and there was no method of transport for them which was a shame.
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I remember as a young boy going to Caldy Island and the boat landed by concrete boats (something to do with the war I think) I wonder if they are still there?
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I remember as a young boy going to Caldy Island and the boat landed by concrete boats (something to do with the war I think) I wonder if they are still there?
I think they were Army Landing Craft type things used to make emergency Piers/Jetties
dontheturner.
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When I go back to Tenby (hopefully next year) I will definitely go over to Caldey Island. It was only the lack of time that prevented me doing so this year.
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We used to go to Tenby when we were kids. Cauldy Island monks used to make the best ice cream but due to H and H they were no longer allowed to make it as we found out on our last trip a couple of years ago. Beautiful place though. about 10 of us rented a house on the harbour had an excellent time.
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Looks like we have a lot in common Hugo. I love Tenby as well.
This is a photo I took near the lifeboat station when I thought the birds overhead were going to attack me!
Enjoy your trip later in the year.
Dave R........"Never been to Tenby but it looks very pleasant judging by your photos"........
Get yourself down there and take your camera. Gorgeous place.
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With a car full of tents we set off to go to Cornwall but just beyond Buckingham it began to torrent down (against the rules that - verbalising nouns!) and dire weather warnings about the south west appeared rife on the wireless. So we turned off to head through the Cotswolds to west Wales, meaning to go to St Davids. Axle deep in floods we finally ended up in Tenby - never been there before and (tents impossible) manage to get a flatlet in one of those tall hotels overlooking the beach. We gratefully hid under the beds for shelter.
Next morning sported a brilliantly clear atmosphere with sunshine and scudding clouds - and when we looked out of the window, to our amazement, there were Napoleonic soldiers marching across the beach. On further inspection we found a film crew with Miriam Margolis and Gene from Life on Mars (forgotten his name) et al. We spend much of an incredible week in an incredible town watching the filming of scenes for the TV edition of Vanity Fair.
Serendipity. $thanx$ Tenby.
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Nice little tale, Micox. $good$
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Hollins is on holiday in Pembrokeshire with her mum. This is her first visit to this part of the world and she is 85 years old, very remiss of her!
We set off on Saturday. We are staying about 20 mins north of Tenby near a place called Narbeth. It is a pleasant thriving town with some good shops.
It is a 4 hour drive from my home in North Wales so we stopped on the way at Aberaeron. We had delicious fish and chips at the Harbourmaster Hotel. It is a very scenic place with a lovely harbour (see first two photos).
Unfortunately that is the last time we saw the sun.
Today we visited Tenby and as you can see in the third photo it was dull and cloudy, not the sunny scenes that Hugo was lucky to experience. Nevertheless it was a good day out.
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The colours of the Harbourmaster Hotel work very well.
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Yes, shame about the car although at least it was blue!
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You'll have a few surprises in the Tenby area, all nice. First, Tenby stays open until 10 p.m. every night---and I dont mean pubs, and clubs. I mean shops, attractions, horse rides --the lot. It always has done, the busineses dont think anything about it, they just think its natural. You will soon find out the differences between Narbeth and Tenby/Saundersfoot. Narbeth is in what is known as the "Welshry." Tenby is known as "little England beyond Wales." It is similar to Llandudno and say Llanrwst. Only a small distance but, amongst other things, the language used everywhere is different.
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Tenby is known as "little England beyond Wales."
I thought that was Rhyl West. ???
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A nice day out to St Davids today. The smallest city in Britain.
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You get about a bit don't you H? No offence meant obviously... :-[
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You get about a bit don't you H? No offence meant obviously... :-[
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You get about a bit don't you H? No offence meant obviously... :-[
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Don't let the grass grow under your feet!
It all started when I went for my first job interview. The man who was to become my boss said to me, "You won't mind travelling on your own abroad will you?"
I answered , "O'h no, no problem."
Little did he know that I had only ever been on a school coach trip to Holland before that day!
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Lovely photo of the Harbourmaster Hotel Hollins, we saw it on the coach going down to Tenby last year but unfortunately the coach didn't stop there. Lots of the houses and hotels in that area are also painted in bright colours and they look very effective.
We stayed at a hotel in Tenby that is near where your mother is in the photo and will be going back there very soon.
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Today, a walk from Colby woodland garden (National Trust) to Amroth and back.
Amroth is the start or the end (whichever way you chose to do it) of the Pembrokeshire coast path.
My husband and I are about halfway through it, back in October, all being well to do another section.
Lovely walking and much more unspoilt than Cornwall.
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The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is lovely. Some years ago a friend and I walked it in 12 days carrying camping equipment most of the way. We left the camping stuff with her parents for a couple of days while we Youth Hostelled as we were getting behind schedule. It was a great holiday but we didn't have much time to look at the towns we passed through, though at the end we did get the bus back to St. David's to visit the Cathedral.
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Well done Blodyn. 12 days is quite an achievement. We have been visiting for the last 3 years doing a bit each time......cheating!
Your wild flower photos are incredible. I have tried all sorts of settings on my camera to do close ups but they have all been a disaster so far.
Today's postcards are from Laugharne castle and the Boathouse which was the home of Dylan Thomas from 1949 to 1953.
Best wishes to anyone who might be looking in on my holiday snaps!
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Lovely photos Hollins, please keep them coming. Laugharne is on one of the excursions on my coach trip to Tenby soon so I'm looking forward to going there.
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Thanks for your interest Hugo. We are going back home tomorrow.
We thought Laugharne was a delighful place even though we had to look around it with our umbrellas up this morning.
I hope you have better weather when you are there and wish you a good holiday when you go.
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Doing the Coast Path in stages isn't cheating at all, Hollins. I'm sure you'll see a lot that we didn't have time for and I'll look forward to seeing your photos of the next stage.
Thank you for your nice comments about my flower photos - they don't all come out that well, so keep trying.
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We travelled down by coach to Tenby last Sunday and stayed at the Cliffe Norton Hotel which overlooks the North Beach and Harbour. It was a wet day on the Sunday but the rest of the week was fine and dry so it made the holiday more enjoyable. After a leisurely day in Tenby on the Monday, we had a boat trip to Caldy Island on Tuesday and really enjoyed our stay there. It was so tranquil and there is more to see and do that we expected. The boat trip was good and as it was low water we were transferred from the boat on to a peculiar looking vehicle and taken to the harbour wall to disembark.
It was a great experience and one I'd like to repeat in the future.
On Wednesday we travelled to Laugharne via Pendine Sands and spent some time in Laugharne looking at the Norman Castle and the boathouse where Dylan Thomas once lived. The trip carried on to Carmarthen for lunch and finally took us to Saundersfoot where we had a short time in this pleasant resort.
Our last day (Thursday) was spent in Tenby walking around this beautiful town and finishing the walk by having an afternoon tea in the lovely Hotel Gilbar that overlooks the South Beach and Caldy Island. It rained on the Friday but that didn't matter as we were on our way home after enjoying another stay at this lovely resort.
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Caldy Island
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Caldy Island
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Nice to see your holiday photos Hugo. I am glad you had better weather than we did.
I was interested especially in the ones of the island as I have never been there. Looks lovely, lucky you!
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I have tried all sorts of settings on my camera to do close ups but they have all been a disaster so far.
You just need to select the macro option on your camera, which looks like this:
(http://macro-photography-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/macroicon.jpg)
..and make sure that the camera is not too close to the flower etc, as it will not be able to focus onto it.
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If you go back to Tenby Hollins try and go over to Caldy Island as I'm sure that you will like it there. We also enjoyed our time in Laugharne and just wished that the coach would have stayed there a bit longer.
The car park by the small bridge had a notice on it saying not to park there an hour before and after high tide as the car park floods when it is high tide. Our timing was ok because the tide was low when we got there.
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Some brave/mad souls in a very wild and windy Tenby today. Hangover cure maybe?
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I am sponsoring a friend who was doing the sea dip in Amroth today, but the last I heard was that it was very wild, so I don't know if it went ahead! $walesflag$
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There was a charity swim in Saundersfoot that did take place today. Not sure if that was the same one though. Good luck to them as it was horrible weather.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/more-1000-swimmers-take-part-6459682 (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/more-1000-swimmers-take-part-6459682)
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Thanks for that Hollins. This would Have been a much smaller event. Each year they have a 'theme' last year was James Bond, the year before was Smurfs and this year was Minions ! I am still waiting to hear if it actually happened !
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Good luck to them as it was horrible weather.
If the air temperature is extremely cold, then swimming in the sea in New Year probably feels quite warm. Mind you, getting out's another story...
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Here are a few snaps of a walk we did on New Year's Day from Saundersfoot to Amroth and back. Super coastal scenery down there too.
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I'm pleased that you had a nice walk on New Year's Day, as long as you wear warm clothes it's always nice to get out on a nice Winter's day.
Our hotel in Tenby was near where you took those photos from and the sea did look rough. It made me wonder though what it must be like for those people who live in that converted Lifeboat house, I bet they would feel the force of that weather.
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Sorry, I made a mistake there. The sunny walk was Jan 2nd.
We walked past the lifeboat house on New Year's Day when the weather was quite different. The blinds were all down and it looked a very chilly scene there with the wind blowing strongly too.
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I saw a TV programme about the Lifeboat house being converted into someone's home and it was really interesting. It's quite unique but I don't know whether I'd like to live there as there's no privacy and that Winter weather too.
This is the photo of the hotel we stayed at when we visited Tenby and it isn't far from where you took your photos, The hotel is a bit quirky in the layout but the food was delicious
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Yes, I saw that programme too. I think it was Grand Designs.
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Hello and especially Hollins. Just been reading the Tenby thread (where I lived for the first five years of my life) but reading back a couple of years I read that you were asking advice on taking close up shots of flowers etc.
Now I doubt if it's any interest now but I have a brand new unused micro lens, I don't remember the make but it's better than camera manufacturers produce. It cost me from memory around £150 about five years ago. If you are interested let me know, but I won't be able to dig it out for around six weeks because I am away.
If you are wondering why I never used it, I bought it so that I could attach it to a 360 degree mirror device which showed a 360 degree reflection, and the camera and this lens took the shot of the mirror. £250 but technology has marched on so fast that nowadays I imagine it is more or less completely outdated.
The golf game along so the panoramas project just gathered dust. Mike
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Thank you for you kind thought but the problem of the close up photos was solved last May when I invested in a new camera. This one automatically adjusts itself to take close ups and I have been delighted with it.
Hope you are having a great time on your winter break and thanks again. Happy New Year!