In South Wales you need to visit the Gower peninsula, especially Rhossili beach and others, the Brecon Beacons and Pen y Fan. Tenby and so many more beaches around the South Wales coast. Let me know if you want a light aircraft flight around the area.
For the record, British National Parks never close! Unlike US National Parks which are essentially wildlife reserves, the British version covers a designated area of natural beauty, but it includes working farms, hotels and other businesses, and often quite sizeable towns with populations running into thousands where people just carry on their normal lives. The key difference is that the Park Authority can control the construction or alteration of buildings and changes in land use which would detract from the beauty of the suirroundings.
Good to know for when we’re back… We’re returning to the UK in May and hoping to get back to Wales. Always pays to ask a local over relying on Google! Thanks again!
@@AndrewandMegan I'm looking forward to seeing what you get up to. You barely scratched the surface of what there is to see and do, but don't miss the Lake District or the Peak District Parks!
@@davidjones332 Lake District is definitely on our list now because you’re probably the 100th person to tell us we need to go there. You’ve made it official haha. Thanks for hanging around!
I live in South Wales now. (Grew up in Southport!) Where I live there is at least ten castles within 20 miles of where I live, including Cardiff, Caerphilly and Chepstow castles, plus Roman ruins.
Conwy castle is amazing, so is walking the walls. That’s was one our our favourite things to do. We love Llanfair PG too. Megan definitely won on the pronunciation!! Loved this guys. You need to come back, so much more to see. 🍻
The walls had us in awe. It’s a very special place!!! We’re ready to come back as there’s so many more things on our list! Thanks for enjoying it with us 🙂
To sound like a native: PortMYreeon. (Portmeirion) Betws-y-coed (Bettus-a-coid) is a lovely hill village with good food and a chill atmosphere and Llangollen is a nice town in the hills with an iron age hill Fort and the river Dee. My home town of Chester (a walled Roman city) is just on the English side of the border and is incredibly pretty. To see the best of these places at this time of the year, visit in a Saturday as it'll be more lively.
Thanks for the tips! So many amazing towns to see! Saturday seems to always have a good market or something going on. Keeping Betws-y-coed on our list! We went to Chester the next day, what an amazing town to grow up in. Exploring the walls there felt like going back in time.
South Wales would take weeks to explore and that's just the commercialised areas. If you went rural in South Wales you will find history tracing back 12,000 years. Cardiff capital of Wales, the castle, Cardiff national museum, st fagins national museum of history. Caerphilly castle 2nd largest in U.K., National show caves for wales abercrave, millennium national stadium, waterfalls in neath area, Cardiff bay (flatholm nature reserve), llandaf cathedral, Merthyr Mawr sand dunes largest in Europe, caerleon Roman Fortress and baths, .... etc to much to mention.
@@peterfinn6098 This is something that is often mistakenly quoted, there are lots of English cities without a Cathedral, however if a Cathedral is present then that constitutes a city, even in the smallest of settlements.
