We wouldn’t have believed that the weather would be go good. Monday was particularly nice and we had planned a short cycle to Little Haven again for a swim and lunch out.
I had carefully checked for the presence of Japanese Whaling Ships!
Just as I remembered it.
Nice portion at the Castle Inn.
We walked to the viewpoint that could not be surpassed anywhere in the world. I have been to the Balcon de Europa at Nerja in Spain and the Point de Europa at the southern tip of Gibraltar and neither were better (maybe equal)!
We walked over the headland to Broad Haven and I had another swim. You can tell that it must have been a warm day. The cycle back from Little Haven was a little testing but we did enjoy our super seaside day.
Today (Tuesday) we upped sticks aiming to wild camp somewhere near Fishguard. I have never been before but expected a working port. We actually aimed for Goodwick, which is next door to Fishguard (or is it Goodguard and Fishwick?).
The ferry to Rosslare goes from Goodwick and it was in harbour when we arrived. We have previously thought that we could do a tour of Ireland after doing South Wales and we were tempted to book the ferry and drive on today if they had places. Janice ‘googled’ the coronavirus quarantine issues for Ireland and sadly we would have been expected to have a fixed address to stay for 14 days......not really possible. Had it been possible we would have gone and I did toy with the idea of pretending in the blog that we were going to Ireland....I could have spoofed it for a couple of days!
The interesting history of Goodwick is that it is the site of the last invasion of the British Isles.
In February 1797 a French Army landed on the shore near Goodwick and 1400 soldiers embarked. The story is that they were a bit of a ramshackle bunch of Regular and Irregular soldiers, plus a large contingent of convicts forced to join. There were some skirmishes with a hastily gathered defending militia but apparently local women dressed in Welsh National costume of red shawls and tall black hats and they marched up and down a nearby hill so that the French would see them and think they were a squad of Regular British soldiers. The French eventually surrendered because they thought they were about to be overwhelmed. A local woman Jemima Nicholas is credited with single handedly capturing 12 French soldiers armed only with a pitch fork and holding them inside St Mary’s church in the town. I had to include the photo to make you know I haven’t made it all up.
We parked up the van on a nice large, flat, free car park and we walked around the coast to Fishguard itself.
It turned out that Fishguard wasn’t a working port it was a beautiful quaint harbour. We were amazed by the way it was so pleasant and not commercialised at all. The main town was up a hill and out of sight, so it might be less attractive but we were happy with what we could see. The day was hazy sunshine and pleasantly warm so we did a coast walk as well.
We had to finish off the walk with a ‘compulsory’ ice cream. This was Mango and Mandarin flavour. It was superb. It’s just a pity I wasn’t arriving in Rosslare having my first Guinness! We will definitely do Ireland, it’s on the list.
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