Elizabeth’s guidebook
Food scene
Newly opened and my very favourite place at the moment. Very interesting range of coffees and teas. My daughter had coffee from Lake Atitlan in Guatamala (having swum in this sacred lake on her Gap Year) and I had Earl Grey with Blue Flowers. The tasty sandwiches came with organic salad. You can also buy bags of salad and the most beautiful bunches of flowers. I’ve decided to cycle across the Dowrog Common to get there next time I visit.
Perennial Gardens and Cafe
Llanrhian Road Newly opened and my very favourite place at the moment. Very interesting range of coffees and teas. My daughter had coffee from Lake Atitlan in Guatamala (having swum in this sacred lake on her Gap Year) and I had Earl Grey with Blue Flowers. The tasty sandwiches came with organic salad. You can also buy bags of salad and the most beautiful bunches of flowers. I’ve decided to cycle across the Dowrog Common to get there next time I visit.
I have always loved “The Dru” as it is affectionately known. A hotel set on cliffs overlooking St Brides Bay. The beach below is accessed down a steep winding path with the best rock pools for blennies we’ve found. Eat in the posh restaurant and watch the sunset or in the cellar bar where you can choose to sit outside on the terrace or in the walled garden. Full of art work and host for various music and drama events.
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The Druidstone Hotel
I have always loved “The Dru” as it is affectionately known. A hotel set on cliffs overlooking St Brides Bay. The beach below is accessed down a steep winding path with the best rock pools for blennies we’ve found. Eat in the posh restaurant and watch the sunset or in the cellar bar where you can choose to sit outside on the terrace or in the walled garden. Full of art work and host for various music and drama events.
The Sloop has a great outdoor sun trap of a terrace. Watch your children playing on the green as you relax and catch the last rays of the setting sun.
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Sloop Inn
The Sloop has a great outdoor sun trap of a terrace. Watch your children playing on the green as you relax and catch the last rays of the setting sun.
The Shed – a restaurant that specialises in local freshly caught fish. You can order takeaway fish and chips and eat on the harbour wall. Yummy.
Nearby is The Blue Lagoon. Enjoy cliff jumping here, the site of the Red Bull championships. Learn how to jump safely first please – google it! My sons friend dislocated both his shoulders by not taking due care.
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The Shed Bistro
56 Llanrhian Rd The Shed – a restaurant that specialises in local freshly caught fish. You can order takeaway fish and chips and eat on the harbour wall. Yummy.
Nearby is The Blue Lagoon. Enjoy cliff jumping here, the site of the Red Bull championships. Learn how to jump safely first please – google it! My sons friend dislocated both his shoulders by not taking due care.
Well worth the 45min trip up the coast for an outstanding meal in the restaurant or cellar bar or outside in the Secret Garden. Children and dog friendly. Visit Wales featured their innovative heated pods in the garden for al fresco meals in all weathers. Great art and ceramics. I am bias of course because my daughter Louise and her husband Ed own the hotel and restaurant / Ceramics by Adam Buick (son-in-law)/Art by a selection of the best artists in Pembrokeshire.
While you are there visit The Witches Cauldron, an extraordinary geological feature On a calm day swim through the caves and arches at low tide.
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Llys Meddyg
East StreetWell worth the 45min trip up the coast for an outstanding meal in the restaurant or cellar bar or outside in the Secret Garden. Children and dog friendly. Visit Wales featured their innovative heated pods in the garden for al fresco meals in all weathers. Great art and ceramics. I am bias of course because my daughter Louise and her husband Ed own the hotel and restaurant / Ceramics by Adam Buick (son-in-law)/Art by a selection of the best artists in Pembrokeshire.
While you are there visit The Witches Cauldron, an extraordinary geological feature On a calm day swim through the caves and arches at low tide.
You can walk to this shop we affectionately call "The Top Shop" because its at the top of the hill in Solva! Its incredibly well stocked too for a village shop.
Directions on foot: walk down valley on bottom path. After mill pond turn left across stepping stones. Turn left back on yourself, follow path adjacent to mill pond. At the top of the path turn right and follow footpath around fields towards large house and little wood follow footpath to road. Walk carefully along road for short way until pavement appears by housing estate. The shop is on the left just after the bus shelter.
If you want to avoid the road altogether you can by walking along the coast path and turn off at a foot path which takes you the other side of the big house and wood. My children used to walk to school in Solva this way.
Bay View Stores & Post Office
19 Maes EwanYou can walk to this shop we affectionately call "The Top Shop" because its at the top of the hill in Solva! Its incredibly well stocked too for a village shop.
Directions on foot: walk down valley on bottom path. After mill pond turn left across stepping stones. Turn left back on yourself, follow path adjacent to mill pond. At the top of the path turn right and follow footpath around fields towards large house and little wood follow footpath to road. Walk carefully along road for short way until pavement appears by housing estate. The shop is on the left just after the bus shelter.
If you want to avoid the road altogether you can by walking along the coast path and turn off at a foot path which takes you the other side of the big house and wood. My children used to walk to school in Solva this way.
CK's Supermarket Ltd
53 New StWell stock supermarket in St Davids.
Sightseeing
Eat delicious homemade cakes and drinks surrounded by Raoul’s art and Heather’s photo’s. Strong Cuban influence infused with Welsh flavours.
Raul Speek Gallery
Main Street Eat delicious homemade cakes and drinks surrounded by Raoul’s art and Heather’s photo’s. Strong Cuban influence infused with Welsh flavours.
Tregwynt Woollen Mill and newly opened café near to Mathry
After enjoying the working mill and the world renowned textiles you can talk a lovely circular walk leaving your car in the mill car park. Walk over the bridge and round a corner and halfway up a hill with a cottage on the corner leave the road and continue to Aberbach on a footpath abounding with humerous found object sculptures. Past some picturesque cottages you will come to a sheltered (depending on the wind direction) pebbley cove. Walking west the footpath at the far end of the beach leads to Abermawr – known for its jasper and cornelian and other beautiful stones. At the far end of the beach (if you are not to laden with stones you just can’t leave behind) walk back up the valley through the woods to the road where you can turn left and just follow it back to Aberbach.
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Melin Tregwynt Woolen Mill
Tregwynt Woollen Mill and newly opened café near to Mathry
After enjoying the working mill and the world renowned textiles you can talk a lovely circular walk leaving your car in the mill car park. Walk over the bridge and round a corner and halfway up a hill with a cottage on the corner leave the road and continue to Aberbach on a footpath abounding with humerous found object sculptures. Past some picturesque cottages you will come to a sheltered (depending on the wind direction) pebbley cove. Walking west the footpath at the far end of the beach leads to Abermawr – known for its jasper and cornelian and other beautiful stones. At the far end of the beach (if you are not to laden with stones you just can’t leave behind) walk back up the valley through the woods to the road where you can turn left and just follow it back to Aberbach.
And of course visit Whitesands Bay – café and amenities have not spoilt the natural beauty of this wonderful beach. Watch the local surfers zoom down to the beach when they hear the surfs up.
I love the walk to St Davids Head from Whitesands. If you’re feeling energetic walk around Carnliddi or up and over the top. See if you can spot the cromlechs that are littered around – a slight exaggeration!
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Бухта Уайтсендс
Pembrokeshire Coast PathAnd of course visit Whitesands Bay – café and amenities have not spoilt the natural beauty of this wonderful beach. Watch the local surfers zoom down to the beach when they hear the surfs up.
I love the walk to St Davids Head from Whitesands. If you’re feeling energetic walk around Carnliddi or up and over the top. See if you can spot the cromlechs that are littered around – a slight exaggeration!
St Nons Well is the sister well to the Holy Well in our valley a 40min walk away along the coast path
A beautiful place to sit and contemplate - the Irish sisters are lovely and run a retreat here.
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St Non's Chapel and Holy Well
St Nons Well is the sister well to the Holy Well in our valley a 40min walk away along the coast path
A beautiful place to sit and contemplate - the Irish sisters are lovely and run a retreat here.
The Puffins and David Attenborough on These Wild Isles!
Skomer Island, Хаверфордуэст SA62 3BJ, Великобритания
The Puffins and David Attenborough on These Wild Isles!
Neighbourhoods
Beautiful and reputed to be the most photographed harbour in Wales. Lovely walks over the Gribben to secret beaches beyond and beyond. Also take the inland footpaths up the valley especially if to wild and wooly to walk in exposed areas.
I'm going to talk about the Nine Wells Valley and coast that you can walk to from here -
On our little hand written map , where Wrecks are written. The 3 tugs were shipwrecked in 1981 the year before we moved here. My children loved playing on them and its well worth a scramble down the well worn (though not obvious) cliff path to see how the beach is strewn with tortured metal from the tugs.
Talking about which- in the inaccessible cove beyond Elephants Head (written about by a travel writer in the 50’s as a place that tourists will flock to in the future like they do to Wookey Hole in The Cheddar Gorge). Walk a little further and you may spy smugglers steps hewn into the promontory on the Solva side of the next inlet– my children tell me now how they used to climb down them (my blood runs cold at the thought)!! They were infact steps to an old tin mine.
And before I finish this weeney guide book – I want to tell you how I told my daughter off for exaggerating when she said that the sea was really warm in the cove. I had to apologise because I was astonished to find that it was – and I am a real coldy custard. Because the south facing cove has pillars of black rock that get warmed during the day if the tide’s out, they act like storage radiators and warm the water significantly when the tide comes in at the end of the afternoon. (you’ve got to get the conditions just right though)
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Solva
Beautiful and reputed to be the most photographed harbour in Wales. Lovely walks over the Gribben to secret beaches beyond and beyond. Also take the inland footpaths up the valley especially if to wild and wooly to walk in exposed areas.
I'm going to talk about the Nine Wells Valley and coast that you can walk to from here -
On our little hand written map , where Wrecks are written. The 3 tugs were shipwrecked in 1981 the year before we moved here. My children loved playing on them and its well worth a scramble down the well worn (though not obvious) cliff path to see how the beach is strewn with tortured metal from the tugs.
Talking about which- in the inaccessible cove beyond Elephants Head (written about by a travel writer in the 50’s as a place that tourists will flock to in the future like they do to Wookey Hole in The Cheddar Gorge). Walk a little further and you may spy smugglers steps hewn into the promontory on the Solva side of the next inlet– my children tell me now how they used to climb down them (my blood runs cold at the thought)!! They were infact steps to an old tin mine.
And before I finish this weeney guide book – I want to tell you how I told my daughter off for exaggerating when she said that the sea was really warm in the cove. I had to apologise because I was astonished to find that it was – and I am a real coldy custard. Because the south facing cove has pillars of black rock that get warmed during the day if the tide’s out, they act like storage radiators and warm the water significantly when the tide comes in at the end of the afternoon. (you’ve got to get the conditions just right though)