South and mid Wales

Altogether we spent about four weeks in Wales - mainly in the south, holidaying as well as searching for a location to settle when we come back to the UK.

 When we first arrived in Wales in April, the trees were still bare.

Vale of Glamorgan - an area in the South Wales. Lovely landscape but rather flat.

Severn Bridge - this is the gateway to South Wales, travelling from London, about 2.5 hours' drive from Heathrow Airport

 

The south-most town we stayed was Barry - a pretty coastal town but too quiet for us.

Llantrisant - a historic town in the valley. A Model House which houses art and craft studios appeals to us as an arty place, but it is rather remote.

We visited other towns like Pontyclun, Pontypridd, Bridgend, Llandwit Major. 

Abergavenny with its castle is a very attractive and lively town but too far from Cardiff.

 Brecon town centre with its Georgian houses

 with its beautiful surrounding hills

and pretty houses,  is almost ideal but again we like to live in a town closer to Cardiff.

We drove thousands of miles, motorways, A-roads, country lanes. 

Love driving through green tunnels like the above.

We enjoyed our 10-day holiday in Pembrokeshire, but the west is too wild for us to settle.

 St David's with its well-known cathedral and Bishop's Palace.

  

Cheerful and colourful Tenby

 St. Brides with its vast farmland

 In fact, all the villages around St Bride's Bay are very pretty and tranquil.

 Castell Henllys - the round houses of the settlements built in Iron and Bronze Ages (1000BC). 

These ger-like houses - not for us to live.

  A pretty Welsh cottage - something like this will do for us to settle in.