St. Brides Bay

It's been a long day and a long journey from London to Pembrokeshire, but we are finally here and looking forward to a good week. We stopped off at the Falcon in Wotton-under-edge for lunch which was delicious. We've been there before and enjoyed it and it wasn't too far out of our way at all. It broke the journey up nicely. We did some shopping in Haverfordwest as once again we are self catering courtesy of the Holiday Property Bond, this time at St. Brides Castle. It dates from the first half of the nineteenth century when it was the baronial mansion of the Allen-Phillips family and later the Harries. Local folk know it better as Kensington Hospital which specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis from 1923 until the end of the Second World War. It then became a convalescent and geriatric establishment until it closed in 1978. In 1991 it was bought by the Holiday Property Bond and restored and refitted to provide 50 apartments and cottages along with a large indoor heated pool, library, snooker and games room, a large outdoor all-weather bowling green, croquet lawn, 9-hole pitch and putt, three tennis courts and a bistro restaurant. 

We went for a short walk around 8pm and today's blip was taken at St. Bridget's church, situated in St. Brides Bay as the sun was going down. 

Since I have had no internet since Friday, I have also added backblips for the weekend and will catch up with your journals when I can. There might be some more evenings where I don't have much time whilst we are on holiday.