Monday October 3rd

This morning we went to Pembroke Castle which was great fun, as there were more passages and corridors than I thought there would be!  I have no idea if we missed any rooms, but we certainly explored well.  I like these kind of castles because I like to explore and....well....get lost haha! :)

We then went to Lamphey Bishops Palace which was quite large and spacious.  The grass was wet and there was a drizzle in the air.  I was wearing my crocs for comfort but my socks – at the heels – were getting a bit wet on the grass.  I didn’t mind though, as I had more socks in the car (I hate having wet feet so I’m usually prepared!).  As the British do, we sat outside and had our lunch there haha!!  It wasn’t too bad, it wasn’t really that cold but it was getting damper and damper.  It was quite a nice place to sit and have our lunch but we were being very British and eating outside when the weather wasn’t at its best!  I guess all we were missing were ice-creams... :)

Last today we took a coastal walk along St Govan’s Head and visited St. Govan’s Chapel which was basically down the cliff!  It was a cute little building and when we walked through to the other side, we came to a very rocky coastline where we saw the waves crashing.  We stumbled upon a couple of people having their lunch on the cliff there and as they went another couple came down which we thought may have been rock-climbers, although we didn’t see them do anything except probably have some lunch.  Must be a good lunch spot then!

We headed off to walk along part of the Head.  The whole area is in an MOD artillery range so is sometimes closed off to walkers but today it was all open.  We didn’t see any cows which the signs told us about, so we imagined them all coloured camouflage instead of being black and white, and wearing berets.  There was plenty of evidence of them on the ground though, although from the looks of said evidence, it did look like it had fallen from a great height…..perhaps fired in place of  normal ammunitions…. So then we thought perhaps the beret wearing camouflaged cows may have been firing their own self-made ammo around….but then we thought “Hey, it’s pretty windy up here!” which probably explained why it looked like it did.  We eventually saw the cows on our way back to the cottage.  And no, they weren’t camouflaged or wearing berets.  Moo.