We started off with Carew Castle and Tidal Mill. When we arrived at the Castle, I realised – I
had forgotten my camera!! So I had to
rely on Mathew and his camera for the rest of the day as mine was sitting at
home. I had put new batteries in it this
morning as well! *huff*
We then went on to Tenby, and started with the Tudor
Merchants House. By now the rain was on
and off so we were ducking in and out of it a bit! The Tudor Merchants House was really cute and
actually quite spacious, despite the small size of it. Mathew and I wanted to take it home but I
don’t think it would have fit in the car somehow! J It really was very nice, and I think I would
recommend anyone visiting Tenby to go and see it.
We then went on to the Museum and Gallery which was actually
IN the remains of Tenby Castle, and it was very small and cute. Downstairs was all about the prehistory of
the place, with lots of flint tools such as axe heads on display, and around
the corner on the same floor there was a gallery of art – half quite old art
and half very modern. There was even an
extra gallery of work by a local artist, all of which was for sale. Upstairs was more random with history not only about the
town, but some Victorian items such as a Penny Farthing bicycle and some WW2
memorabelia.
On our way back to the car we stopped off at one of the many
sweet shops in the town (this place was seriously geared up for seaside
tourists!!) and bought some sweets, some rock and a small bucket of
candyfloss!! We hadn’t had that for
years. We could wait to start it so we
opened it as soon as we got back to the car hehehe!
On the way back we decided to have a look at two Castles
which were on our map as CADW but we had no idea what they were. The first one was Llawahadon(?) Castle and
was relatively easy to get to because we had seen some brown tourist signs for
it. By this time the weather wasn’t
looking too good – my feet were already pretty damp from the intermittent rain
we’d had in Tenby and the clouds didn’t look particularly friendly. The wind was still against us too, although
it wasn’t freezing cold.
This Castle was
open access therefore quite ruined so we had a little look before trying to find
Wiston Castle. By the time we got there,
the wind and rain had not eased off at all, and we could see the ruins (another
open access site) from where we parked the car.
I decided I wasn’t too fussed about this one so I stayed in the car
while Mathew went up to explore. He said
it was quite a cute little Motte with the Castle ruins on top, and I saw him
right next to it as the heavens opened and the heavy rain really started!! He got back quite wet and we returned to the
cottage when the rain decided to hammer it down as we were about to get out of
the car. It was nice to be in a warm
cottage after a day outside in the wind and the rain, even if it hadn’t been
that cold!
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