I camped at Strumble Head with a good view of the lighthouse.This proved not quote such a great plan when night fell and the lighthouse was switched on. It was liike sleeping next to a monochromatic disco light. Luckily my hooded sleeping bag was light right but getting up to have a pee had a…

Another nights camping not helped by the patchiness of mobile phone signals. With 4g I can keep everyone up to date and listen to the radio. Phone signal on the path is at best patchy and normally non existent.However last night I found a 4g spot with three bars! I waited a few minutes and…

A steady day with good weather and lots of hills. I walked past Ramsey Island and had a chat with one of the guys who organised wildlife boat trips there.A modern problem wildlife tours is TV wildlife programs. People expect to see what they see on TV and moan if they don’t see seals fighting…

After a scruffy previous day this one started well with a lovely view from my impromptu camp site. It was also helped by me being able to re jig my room bookings so I didn’t have to walk so far each day to get to Fishguard.There was still the battery problem but I was hoping…

One of those what could go wrong did go wrong days. Discovered one of three back up battery packs had discharged without ever being connected to anything. I am doing 4 days wild camping so I’ve gone from sufficient battery power to just about enough.Then my camera picked up a fault , not great but…

Walking from Pembroke to Milford Haven doesn’t offer much coastal scenery but there were lots of views of Victorian forts and towers built to protect the harbour.The HQ of the Pembrokeshire coastal path is on the route so I popped in to report about the cattle crush being used as a stile.I also mentioned about…

Today was a short 12-mile walk into Pembroke, taking in two oil refineries, a dock and a power station. I was tired from the day before, and the scenery didn’t look inspiring, so I thought of a steady plod and a welcome day off.And so it went until a few miles outside of Pembroke. I…

The day started with the wind blowing at about 40mph mercifully away from the cliff edges. Walking with a back pack in a crosswind isn’t an easy task but it did give me the opportunity to take lots of pictures of a very lively sea crashing on the rocks.Then it was walking along the numerous…

This was a tiring day climbing up and down the path around the Gower. The geology here means there are many steep valleys that you climb down into down steep paths and then back out by what generally seem to be steeper paths.Geologically interesting = steep pathsGeologically wonderful = very steep pathsGeologically stupendous = you…

The start of the walk in Laugharne, home of Dylan Thomas, follows the Birthday Poem walk, which matches verses of his poem to the local scenery.Then a steady trudge to Pendine sands, home of various world land speed records and an enormous Museum and visiting centre under construction.The coast on from Pendine is more typically…