A December Day in Tenby
Walked along the coast path from Tenby to Waterwynch Bay : up past the hotels and grand apartment blocks of The Croft, a name that echoes a farm that must have vanished over two hundred years ago from the magnificent Victorianness of the current road, which quickly dwindles to a narrow footpath, much beset with storm-fallen foliage.
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how far is it from urban civilization?
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Tenby is a town: it has streets and shops, a market and even a small hospital. Quite a big place by local standards! The nearest city is Swansea, about an hour away, though I suppose by national standards, even Swansea isn't a big city.
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i had a girlfriend who liked swansea
she was welsh i think
; )
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What a beautiful stretch of coast! But oh, my word. That holiday home. Couldn't they have at least camouflaged it with wood cladding?
LOL at the horrified expression of the cakeless dog.
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It is a rambling place. I looked it up : "The grounds for the house were the gift of local townspeople of Tenby to Charles Norris, the artists whose paintings and engravings helped to attract tourist to what was then just a small fishing port. The house was built in 1818 and remained the painter's home until his death in 1858."
What it was to be a painter in 1818! Though presumably it was smaller then.
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I'm trying to visualise the 1818 painter's cottage. But, nope. Can't see any vestiges of the early 19th century there...
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