A lethargic start to the week, but I did get around to doing the main week's shopping before lunch. We've been deliberating about where to spend our two week break all over the weekend, having made the vital decision that it should be somewhere in the Gower, since it's only an hour and a half drive from home. It was one of our favourite places to go in times past. When I checked through my photo archive, I found that we'd been there six times - twice for a week's stay, and four day trips over the past fourteen years, all before I started spending lots of time in Spain.
It's hard to believe we haven't returned there, not even for a day trip since October seven years ago, and it's ten and a half years since we last stayed there in the Oxwich Bay Hotel. At that time the place had a passing resemblance to 'Fawlty Towers', but since then it's undergone a makeover and been transformed into an up-market place to stay with a gourmet menu - including, as Clare recounted with delight, an Argentinan Malbec on their wine list, labelled bi-lingually in Welsh and Spanish, as it comes from Patagonia.
Sadly the prices are well beyond of our budget now, but after agonising over a fortnight at a house in Newton, part of Mumbles, and a holiday bungalow in Oxwich Bay, we opted for the latter. No wi-fi and a flaky phone signal, but within earshot of the sea, and a wonderful stretch of saline marshland behind the beach, designated as a Special Site of Scientific Interest - a great place for birdwatching, if my memory serves me well. Lots of wild nature more than compensates for a slender digital diet.
It's all booked now, and we'll be getting ready to go there two weeks from now.
It's all booked now, and we'll be getting ready to go there two weeks from now.
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