Ever been to Hereford? Or St Davids?

[mysticmark]

Off West on Wed for 10 days. 2 nights in Hereford then a week in a cottage near St Davids SW Wales.

Hereford - what must sees? Nice restaurant (kid friendly) with a view (river?) for lunch?

St Davids and around? Any special recommendations? (Me, wife and 2 girls - 3 and 9 - going)

Thx

[BrandNewGuy]

In St David's, the self-service restaurant / cafeteria in the cathedral itself is really good and excellent value. Apart from the cathedral, there's not a lot to see or do in St David's, though there are quite a few tourist tat shops.

[Blueskies]

Try cwtch restaurant in st David's, had a very nice meal there two yrs ago.

Cathedral worth looking round

not sure how far you want to travel from st David's but Newport about a 30min drive away, lovely sandy beach (Newport sands), great views, cute village with arty shops and nice cafes, bike riding available too

Preseli hills good too

Check out sunset from strumble head on the coast

[Blueskies]

Just seen you have kids, Newport sands beach great for kids as its in a bay so tide not strong.

There may be others closer to st davids though! Didn't have kids when at cwtch but seemed family friendly sort of place.

[JohnL]

cwtch = cuddly/hug

:)

[mysticmark]

Thanks, love to know meanings, how on earth is it pronounced please? (Im half welsh but no lingo unfortunately)

[Blueskies]

No idea how you say it sorry but they serve lovely food :)

[DaveR]

Broad Haven has a lovely beach - at low tide you can walk around the headland to Little Haven, and there are caves and rockpools to explore.

Pembroke Castle is worth a visit if you like climbing up lots of walls and towers, and you can also go down a pretty hairy spiral staircase to a massive natural cave that was incorporated into the structure of the castle.

[PeckhamRose]

Rhymes with butch.

[mysticmark]

As in cootchie cootchie coo perhaps?

Thanks all for excellent recommendations. Spiral staircase down to cave sounds very Bond villain :)

Hope all of you enjoy a great summer break, a change from "Jocasta thats not your Yakult" scenario, and the traffic and fast pace of life maybe too.

BTW - still looking for fab long lunch venue in/v near Hereford, where kids can play and all can eat, drink and chill.

Thx again

[malumbu]

I went to Hereford the day of decimilisation. Also a few months later after Hereford FC had been promoted to the football league for the first time. Both times there was a buzz.

Last time was to Bulmers when they were still an independent cider maker using local apples rather than the bollocks they do now. That was more of a fuzz.

I should imagine that it has changed somewhat in the last 30 years.