Pembrokeshire

Join us at the most wonderful time of the year. It’s time for a Christmas shopping experience like no other in West Wales. Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire at Christmas time is a magical time to visit. The castle’s state rooms are decorated with greenery from their garden with a beautiful Christmas tree. It’s time for Christmas at Picton Castle.

A distinctive feature of the West Wales countryside is the ‘clawdd’. Translated it means hedge, dyke or embankment. Although the term really refers to our ‘stone hedges’ – stone-faced earth banks built as stockproof boundaries to fields or to divide land. Patterns of stonework vary from area to area depending on local styles and the availability and type of stone. The most common Welsh style has rows of vertically set stones with the...

What could be better than walking to a West Wales beach on a fine and sunny Sunday?  Not much! – but if the walk includes foraging for lunch under the watchful eye of an experienced guide and heading back to the woods to cook over a campfire then that really is a special Sunday out.

Hooray the sun is shining! Time to head to Poppit Sands in Pembrokeshire and breathe in that glorious sea air! Those more adventurous took to the sea for a paddle in their kayaks. There is nothing we love more on a sunny day than paddling at Poppit.

Colby Woodland Garden, South Pembrokeshire, is an 8 acre, National Trust garden set in a secluded valley with lots of lovely walks through meadows and woodland, leading down to the sandy beach at Amroth. The perfect woodland walk to the beach.

If you would like a spectacular yet not too strenuous circular walk, follow our path from the village of Moylegrove. The centre comprises a tumble of traditional painted cottages, grey stone chapels and two stone river bridges. Moylegrove is set in a most picturesque location on the Pembrokeshire coast, 6 miles south of Cardigan.

St David’s Day (1st March) is nearly upon us. It’s time to make some celebratory Welsh Cakes (pice bach, cacen gri, pice ar y maen). Traditionally Welsh Cakes were cooked on a bakestone or cast iron griddle and are sometimes referred to as ‘bakestones’. The bakestone or planc was heated on the open fire and used as a cooking surface.

Many Welsh wedding customs have disappeared throughout the years, but some have evolved and are still in use today. Here in Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, we like to try to keep these customs alive, so take a leap into Wales: with 5 Welsh wedding customs.

How to say ‘I love you’ on St Valentine’s Day in Welsh is ‘dwi’n dy garu di’. If that seems a bit tricky, why not gift a unique and romantic Welsh Love Spoon instead? The hand-carved Celtic Love Spoon has a heart to symbolise love and Celtic knot work representing two lives intertwined.

We like nothing better than a walk in beautiful West Wales. Take a drive through the Pembrokeshire countryside to enjoy a gentle circular walk by the Daugleddau estuary. Enjoy a lazy Lawrenny afternoon with us.