Beach Huts at Langland Bay

To the west of Swansea and its lovely bay is an area called The Gower peninsula, a point called The Mumbles and a bay called Langland. And 200 metres from that bay is The Langland Cove Guesthouse, a very fine b&b that could hardly be bettered!

This is the county of Glamorganshire and we made two short walks, each of 4 miles, both passing along the shore of south Wales.

The first started on Friday at The Prince of Wales, Kenfig, where the pub and the food are better than their website and the building is an old town hall. We walked to Sker Beach, a long and beautifully curved bay with a calm and separate pool - and with the Tata Steel works distant in the background ....

Sunday was another beautiful day, sunny and cloudless though with a welcome chill for energetic walkers. We parked at Llangennith, at the north end of Rhossili Bay (site of the world skinny dipping record!)and did some more walking amongst the dunes and the headlands of Burry Holms, a wide expanse of bay with a row of large rounded stones and a width of sand including the bones of a long-stranded wooden ship buried deep. Details of a walk by the National Trust here.

Back through farmland with sheep and alpacas we lunched at The King's Head Llangennith, next to an intriguing 12th century church (St Cenydd, Llangennith) with a distinctive tower.