The Gift of St. David E-Book

Geoffrey Peyton

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Because I am an avid rambler of the British countryside, someone suggested that I should take a walk along the coast of Pembrokeshire as it is a mirror image of my passion in hiking; that being the North Cornish Coast. I wasn't to be disappointed, and so I decided to spend a few days at the quaint village of Manorbier, which is just over 50 miles west of Swansea in South Wales. This was to be my finale of the year for treading Britain's natural countryside, and Manorbier became the autumn recluse for my finale of trekking for 2013 in the wilds of glorious Wales.

Leseprobe

Geoffrey Peyton

The Gift of St. David

'A tour of the Pembrokeshire Coast.

I would like to thank the Welsh for their courtesy when it comes to the invasion of us English visitors during the spring, summer and autumn when we donate a great deal of our hard earned money to the up keeping of their most wonderful and spectacular settings as we spend, spend and spend until our wallets are empty. And on behalf of the Welsh, I would like to thank the English for pissing off at the end of the open season and leaving us to at least have a few months during the winter without you limey bastards traipsing all over their sacred pastures. BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

A tour of the Pembrokeshire Coast

I believe wholeheartedly that Britain possesses the most splendid of rural pastures that are matched in alluring equality by very few other lands abroad. Granted that I have never been to a land afar, that is unless you count Dublin has a land afar. So how can I compare the UK with somewhere that I have only perceived in pictures and on the television? Well I can’t. But of all the non-natives of Britain that I have spoken to have told me exactly what I wanted to hear, and that is that Britain is the most scenic country that they have ever visited. The likely reason for this is that their image of Britain drifts into our notorious history regarding our rulings of the waves and the ground battles that every county of these isles have encountered at some point in our proud history.

In fact pound for pound, Britain has more natural open countryside than any other nation in the world. If you could eliminate all urban towns and cities from an atlas of Great Britain, you would hardly know the difference at all.

One may think to challenge this fact by retorting, “What about the Rain Forests of Brazil and so on?"

Well they are just lands full of trees, and that’s it. The Sahara Desert is just a desert. Greenland is just a cold sheet of ice. The Outback of Australia is also a desert. Even Africa and Asia do not come anywhere close to the amount of pastoral land that Britain has; as size comparison goes. The closest challenger is in fact New Zealand, but it is mostly mountainous and full of sheep.