 WALES
"Links in the sky" near
Cardiff
 What
to see
In the common international memory, Wales
has long time been considered as a black coal country. The
reputation was enforced by the dramatic story told by the
Welsh novelist Richard Llewellyn in its best seller "How
green was my valley" and from the awarded movie of John
Ford. Through the eyes of a young guy, Huw Morgan, million
of people discovered the deterioration of the Welsh mining
town and coal port of Cardiff.
Nowadays, Cardiff
is a cosmopolitan cheerful city with historic buildings (Cardiff
Castle) and adventurous waterfront
developments (Mermaid Quay) with
parks and gardens, shopping centres and cultural life at St
David's Hall or the New Theatre.
The 8-mile shore of Cardiff Bay are becoming one of Europe's
finest maritime cities. Even the National Stadium of Arms
Park, temple of rugby, has been renewed and is now called
the Millenium.
Nearby Cardiff, Swansea
is Wales' city by the sea and a few miles further the Gower
Peninsula was designated the UK's first Area
of Outstanding Natural Beauty about half a century ago. Sandy
beaches, rocky creeks, open moors, grazed common land, salt
marshes, dune banks… support a variety of flora and fauna.
In the wide, open spaces of the Brecon
Beacons National Park which fills South Wales,
in the North of Cardiff, on finds an inviting expanse of grassy
mountains and swooping razor-sharp ridges.
So,as the Wales Tourist Board recommends there are many reasons
for visiting the country.
First of all, there is a fresh new view over almost every
hill in Wales from north to south and the landscape is forever
changing as the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas wrote: "Every
mountain and stream, every farm and little lane announces
to the world that landscape is something different in Wales".
So just have a short drive along the 750 miles coast to discover
mile after mile sparkling beaches and spectacular headlands
or take the most breathtaking narrow-gauged Snowdon Mountain
Railway to climb the Britain's highest mount. Visit a castle
or two : there are so many emerging here and there on the
crests of the Welsh hills that it is Europe's largest concentrations
of medieval fortresses. Or follow in the steps of pilgrims
and visit St David (Wales's patron saint) the tiny cathedral
city on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast.
And everywhere you go, you will found golf courses, links
along the coast, natural pure or championship to American
standards. But here do play your own game, at your unhurried
pace and savour the fantastic scenery.
Last but not least, the Welsh welcome is warm and will soon have you feeling at ease. Golf
as it should be!
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Cardiff Castle clock tower
Dyffryn Gardens
Cafe quarter
Swansea sailing harbour
Famous Gower Peninsula Area
of Oustanding Beaty
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