Another sunny day sees us leaving the Redcliffe Apartments to head for Rhossili some 12.5 miles away. We have been to Rhossili many times but usually to head in the opposite direction towards Wormshead. This time our plan is to climb Rhossili Downs,  the hill to Llangennith, passing through the camp and caravan site […]

Our first sight of Broughton Bay through the sand dunes! On one of those warm sunny, balmy days in June we take the car from Redcliffe and head for Broughton Bay and Whiteford Burrows which are the most northernly of the beaches on the Gower peninsular. Research had told us that both Broughton Bay and the […]

        Rhossili Bay on the Gower peninsula just a 25 minute drive from The Gower Apartments has been voted Britain’s best beach and is third in a list of best European beaches in a survey of worldwide tourists by the TripAdvisor website. It is possible to do the whole walk along the […]

Flickr image credit @ mid/high tide Three Cliffs Bay has a certain mystery about it and plenty of history too. Why? Perhaps it’s the small river meandering down the valley onto the bay and towards the legendary three cliffs, which is where it gets its name. Or maybe (for me) it’s the uncanny resemblance to […]

  Just under a mile away is Bishopston village with its   …….. post office cum village store open Monday – Friday 9 -5 Sunday 9 – 1pm the Spar supermarket is now closed,opening late Summer 2014 is a larger, Co-op supermarket. a surf shop,a hair dressers, a charming cafe called the Lamplighter (run by volunteers) […]

  The tide is out, the weather’s fine, just left the apartment to take a stroll across the bay. Within a couple of minutes the sight of the Surfside cafe is there to tempt me. Maybe a little too soon to take that cup of coffee but ample choice once reaching Langland. The coastal path […]