Wednesday 15th February 2023 Rather a surprise at breakfast as Tony has tested positive for covid and is going home today. It perhaps should not have been a surprise as Diane had tested positive on Monday, Tony’s walking performance seemed to be deteriorating towards my level at the end of yesterday’s walk and we had… Continue reading 222. Aberavon to Swansea

Tuesday 14th February 2023 We set off today having already made the decision not to walk the streets of Margam past the steelworks – the Wales Coast Path is long enough not to need to include bits that we wouldn’t dream of doing for any reason other than continuity. Our route yesterday meant that we… Continue reading 221. Porthcawl to Magram

Monday 13th February 2023 Drove down to the Rose and Crown at Nottage, Porthcawl, suffering the normal Monday morning traffic jams on the A42/M42/M5. Tony arrived soon after and we parked up the cars and got a taxi to the car park at the far end of Ogmore-By-Sea (GR869745). Starting at Ogmore-By-Sea (GR869745) Set off… Continue reading 220. Ogmore-By-Sea to Porthcawl

Thursday 27th October 2022 Today we had to use the cars rather than the railway, leaving my car at Ogmore-by-Sea and driving back in Tony’s to the beach café at Llantwit Major (GR952675). The breakfast was better than those we had the previous two days at The Coast café in Llantwit Major. Today’s walk was… Continue reading 219. Llantwit Major to Ogmore-by-Sea

Wednesday 26th October 2022 We again had breakfast at The Coast café and caught the train to Rhoose, not really managing the intended early start as the trains only ran once an hour. Out of the station (GR063662), we crossed the lines and walked down a path to the sea and the official Wales Coast… Continue reading 218. Rhoose to Llantwit Major

Tuesday 25th October 2022 The White Hart where we were staying did not do breakfast so we had a full English (or Welsh) breakfast in the Coast Café in Llantwit Major and then took the train back to Cadoxton (GR132688). After taxing our navigational skills in struggling to find a way out of the station… Continue reading 217. Cadoxton to Rhoose

Monday 24th October 2022The plan for this, our second trip on The Wales Coast Path, is to avoid the worst of the industrialisation and road walking from Pengam on the eastern outskirts of Cardiff where we finished last time. However, as it would be good to see something of the better side of Cardiff we… Continue reading 216. Cardiff to Cadoxton

Thursday 25th August 2022 Today was to be a short day as we needed to travel home in the afternoon/evening. We drove both cars to the Lighthouse Inn (GR300816) where there were two car parks – a new asphalt one and a gravel one closer to the pub. I drove into the new one and… Continue reading 215. Lighthouse Park to Cardiff

Wednesday 24th August 2022 The plan today was to walk from Goldcliff, through Newport to Lighthouse Park on the other side of the estuary of the River Usk, so we took a taxi back out to the Farmer’s Arms at Goldcliff (GR365831). The official path takes a circuitous path around some newly created wetlands near… Continue reading 214. Goldcliff to Lighthouse Park