A few days away

In Wales this time.  We stayed near Carmarthen and enjoyed the views, walks, towns, shops and beaches - that has to have been a good visit don't you think.

And this view was right on our doorstep

Bliss for us and bliss for a lurcher who loves the beach - in this case an estuary, but how beach like it is.

Well, it must be classed as a beach here, there were jellyfish - what a whopper

Days out included Fishguard and Newport Sands

the walk was enjoyed by all, as you will see from the short video below:

As for painting whilst away, I did continue with my concertina sketchbook:

~ I'll add another post soon about our trip to Wales ~

Swansea, the mumbles and beyond....

A brighter day for our visit to Wales, when we drove down to the Mumbles near Swansea.

Another day we went to the Gower, where we had a lovely walk...

We also stopped at Llantwit Major - well it had to be the beach again didn't it.  

It clouded over and got very breezy, but was worth the stop

Then onto the Fishguard area, we did have some business to attend to which proved to be highly successful, so our trip was very worthwhile...

and a certain lurcher enjoyed the visit too...

Wales...a few days away

...and we happen upon Barry Island.  Not completely an island as such, it's really a peninsula  - back in the late 1880's a road was built to join it to the main town of Barry - we visited the beach part ....

The beachfront has had money spent on it, and even at this time of year it had plenty going on.

Things for kids  - and kids at heart - although we didn't attempt to try the climbing wall!

A Notice gave guidance for those who did want the challenge

In English...

And in Welsh....

They are very helpful with their signs and notices...I like how they teach Welsh as you drive.  There are directional road signs in English with the Welsh meaning added too, it all lends itself to an entertaining journey. We have long known that ARAF in Welsh means SLOW, but for those who are hard of learning, it gets repeated quite a lot! 

A bit wet for our visit, but it didn't matter, we still enjoyed the walk.

These trips away are a great opportunity to do some Travel Sketching,

(as if I wouldn't) - 

I was given a really useful sketchbook recently by one of my online friends,

so it got road tested on this trip.

  Quick line sketches as we go from place to place.

- I thought I had done a lot of sketches in it,

but by the end of the trip I still have about half the book to fill.

Thanks CLC, this is proving to be a very handy sketchbook.

More pictures of Wales in my next post!