My Best Day In The UK! | Wales Coast Path | Gower, Mumbles & Swansea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
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Very soon after moving to Wales I heard about the coast path that runs the whole length of the West Coast of Wales. My time/visa is running out and I was determined to squeeze in a day trip/hike a small portion of the amazing Welsh Coast. It truly was one of the best days I've had in the UK.
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I’m Ashley, a born and raised Washingtonian.
I love where I grew up but more recently my love for travel and a LDR has brought me across the pond to the UK. I am winging my way through this new life in a new country. It’s exciting and terrifying all at the same time but for the most part I am enjoying every little bit of the journey.
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WE get to see your fella at last well bits of him , He's a lucky man i think you are wonderful, person ,I'm so glad your happy .
Welshman living in Brunei here: wow, this was a surprise on my feed! How great to see my home turf. I grew up in Mumbles and miss it every day! Hope you enjoyed your stay.
How's Brunei? Is it expensive?
@@muhyadindahir3188 Compared to Europe, not really. Like most of Asia, a really good quality hotel costs about $40 US per night, much cheaper than Europe and food here is both excellent and cheap. Petrol here is .51cents per litre (.26pence UK, 60cents US). The only downside for tourists is, Brunei is not really a tourist destination and there isn't a lot for tourists to do. There are many wonderful beaches, there is preserved jungle with rare species, the weather is fabulous, the sunsets remarkable...but remember, this is a moderate Islamic state and a dry country - no alcohol ! Actually, tourists are allowed to drink in hotels, its a very moderate society with absolutely no crime! Its safe to walk anywhere, at any time. I've been here full time for over a decade and have no intention of ever returning to the UK !
@@swanvictor887 Thanks for the information mate, it really helps.
@@muhyadindahir3188 The best thing I can recommend is to visit Brunei for about four to five days, perhaps inbetween our neighbours, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur: both those large cities are wonderful, exciting and cheaper than Europe, while Brunei will give you time to chill and relax on nice beaches.
@@muhyadindahir3188 cheaper than Mumbles
Thanks for showing the world our lovely country! The coastal path just gets better and better as you head further West and I'm sure you'll be enjoying further walks along that path. The Gower, St David's and Tenby would all make for a great walk and a great video too. Diolch!
Solva is very worth a visit.
How old are you mam ❓
The Gower is without doubt one of the most beautiful parts of the UK. You feel like you're rightout in the sticks, but you're only a few miles from Llanelli and Swansea.
Lucky to live a couple of hundred yards from Langland.. and Caswell. The animal was a seal... he tends to be very nosey about those walking along the path.
Just love your enthusiasm and appreciation of all around you.
Lovely video Ash! Thankyou! It's an area I know well. Your sunny disposition snd happy smile are an asset to Wales and the UK!
I love the Welsh coast! We hiked in Ceredigion last July. Also love the south west coast path in Devon & Cornwall.
The Mumbles...a fantastic stretch of coastline.
And a fantastic name!🙃
Hi Ash nice to see you looking so happy,glad to see summer is now heading our way.
I have only been as happy as this person for around 11 seconds in my entire life. May 13th, 2012. You must be doing something very right.
Family home Bishopston Murton & Llangennith always home too me the Gower,glad you enjoyed South Wales❤
Caswell Bay, Langland Bay, the Mumbles - done it so many times! Usually end up at Joe's ice cream, looking at Swansea Bay!
I agree, i love living and being from Wales.
Definitely the cheeriest wee person on you tube
Great video Ash!
Ah, Bishopston Valley, my playground growing up in the 70’s/80’s. Pwll Du Bay, Brandy Cove and Caswell Bay were my beaches of choice.
If you haven't already been there, there are some great places in North Wales worth a visit. The Great Orme in Llandudno, Portmeirion and the little train which runs up Mt Snowden.
Lovely to see you enjoying yourself
Ashley, a couple of miles from Southgate, in the other direction is Three Cliffs Bay, one of the best in Wales. The cycle path you were on was the old Swansea and Mumbles Railway, the first horsecar railway service, but it closed in 1960. Childhood memories of Caswell Bay, great beach and miles from the noise and “Kiss Me Quick” hats and fairgrounds of Barry and Porthcawl. Glad to see you enjoying yourself.
Really glad you are turning this around, moving to UK was definitely a good idea.
My advise as a sometimes wise old man. As you have clearly fell in love with the land of my grandmother and a young man of such land.
I'm sure you are having a good time with Laura in La Belle Paris, while working on a return to Wales.
Lovely video and glad to see glimpses of the beau! 😊
Santander bikes!🚴 We use those all the time in London but didn’t know they were in Wales! Cool! ❤️
Wow it’s beautiful there! What a lovely part of the world. Good to see you looking so happy Ash 💕
We love this part of Wales and try to visit every year. I almost don't want too many people to know what a special place it is! I am glad you love it so much.
Hi Ash! I keep getting your channel recommend to me. Probably because I’m an American who lives in Britain part of the year… and I just started publishing a Wales series. So nice to meet you! I really enjoyed this video!! We fly to England on Wednesday and seeing this hike along the path makes me excited about all the public footpaths I’ll explore this summer! ❤️🇬🇧🏴🏴 Cheers! XX Dara
Hi Dara, nice to see you here. Hope one of the footpaths you explore is to the top of Mount Snowdon. 🙂
@@Beejay950 I totally want to do that! And I know Ian would like to as well. But sadly, I don’t think we can fit that in this year! The calendar is already packed! 😳 Did you watch yesterdays Welsh language video yet? Total hot mess!😂
Hi Dara, l hope you have a good flight. The weather is supposed to be lovely next week. Xx
@@lizbignell7813 great! It’s 32°C and super hot and sunny here in Texas today! 🔥
Thanks for the well wishes, Liz!
Places I have visited so many times through my life living in Swansea, but there is joy in seeing it through someone elses eyes.
Thanks for sharing this lovely walk. 👍🥰
Hey Ash
Looked like you guys had a awesome day on the trail, hope to see more trail walking soon
I used to live in Swansea, so it was great to see you enjoy some of my favourite places! 🤩
And I remember living in the Sketty on a 1 in 4 and not engaging my handbrake properly....
@@TT-zd6nr lol, I bet I can guess which road you're referring to! I used to slog up that bloody hill frequently on my bike, to get to the Tech! I'm sure in the past 40 years it hasn't got any less steep....!
In the early 20th century there was a lot of migration from northern Italy to South Wales. A lot of those immigrants started cafes, importing wonderful coffee and ice cream. All along that coast you will Verdi's, Joe's, Franco's - genuine Welsh-Italian families that have passed it down generations. Highly recommended in the face of the spread of global chain coffee and ice cream to seek those places out because they are both better and cheaper.
Lovely to see you exploring the coastal path.
Next up, Rhossili and Worm's Head!
My home city. Did you bump into Bonnie Tyler during your visit ? You cycled past her house 😁
Thx for showing us, I’ve never really left Cardiff
Next time you're on the Gower head west to Rhossili Bay. It is 3 miles long and has been rated top beach in Europe and is often ranked one of the best in the world. If the tide is out, you can walk over to the Worms Head, but make sure you're back before it comes back in.
thats a lovely stretch of coastline
Loved watching this - I live in Blackpill which is the very edge of Mumbles. I regularly walk the coastal path to Caswell and back. Joes is in Oystermouth - you would have cycled passed Croeso Lounge and Prezzo - Joes is just behind them and a MUST!!! You should go to Rhossili at the end of July/beginning of August when the sunflowers are in bloom. Worms Head at Rhossili is stunning on a sunny day and Rhossili beach regularly appears on lists of best beaches
Wow! Nice and informative video. Thanks for sharing. Would like to hike Wales Coastal Path.
Fantastic walk Ashley beautiful breathtaking scenery ❤️❤️ thank you
For taking us along .Hope all well your way
Love Swansea & the Gower. So many familiar places, Caswell Bay, Langland, Bracelet Bay, The Big Apple (!) & Mumbles. If you go the opposite way from Southgate you come to Three Cliffs bay & specifically Pobbles-the most beautiful beach in the world as I spent my summer holidays there as a child. 😊. Ps so glad the sun came out eventually.😁
Thanks so much for sharing this Ash 👍
Brilliant Ash. I live a half mile from Southgate. Not really a town 🙂. Small for a village even but I loved your great video of the coast path to Mumbles. It's actually even more impressive the other way but more isolated. Thanks! PS. The bike was quite cheap! £2? I'll definitely hire one!
Half Mile!
Thanks for sharing Ash:) Looks like you are having fun and enjoying your time here in the UK . Really enjoyed the walk its a long time since i have been to Mumbles but it is a beautiful area. Keep having fun and sharing it with us :)
What a great hike and a little bike ride also 😀 Thanks for taking us along Ash.
A lovely video thanks Ash..stay safe... V.R..
So happy you enjoyed the Gower coastal walks, a stunningly beautiful area and the beaches just get better as you head west 😊
Hi Ash, we were in this part of Wales a few weeks ago, and loved the Gower. If you and your fella are looking for something a bit special, check out The Beach House Restaurant at Oxwich. It’s a Michelin restaurant right on the beach and the food is amazing! We had the six course taster menu and everything was sooooo good, but you will need to book.
I've been in Swansea since May 3rd and have been loving it, when to that Surfside Cafe and that Ice cream shop as well! That coastline trail has some unreal views, absolutely love it.
Lovely video Ash , looking forward to your next adventures in Paris. X
Hey thanks for the heart an reply . Must try it , so great mount snowdonia an slate mines
4 boyfriend shots & 5 clips of his voice - he's getting braver!
Hi Ash.... I moved to Wales 30 years ago from London to be with my boyfriend. Lots of life changes and adjustments along the way, but I can honestly say it's the best thing I ever did. My 3 sons are all over 25 but it's a wonderful country to live and have a family. I hope you get to stay here. I live in Bridgend if you ever fancy a coffee with a new older friend (plus I have a car & can take you to a HUGE supermarket). Emma xx
My suggestion: a visit to the Gigrin Farm Red Kite Feeding Centre in Rhyader. You'll get to see a chunk of mid-Wales and an awesome wildlife spectacle
Hi Ash, I live just about 15 minute’s walk from Mumbles, it’s a treasure of a seaside resort and we are so fortunate to have the Gower coastline right here on our doorstep. Did you know that actor Michael Douglas has a link to Mumbles? His wife Catherine Zeta Jones grew up in Mumbles.
Enjoy what little time you have left in Wales 🏴 and take our love back home to our American cousins! 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
Catherine is 100% Welsh and yet looks like she is from the Mediterranean area, Spanish, Italian or Greek, It is believed that this look originated from an early migration of people from the Iberian Penannular thousands of years ago. A good percentage of the Welsh and also Irish have this look, including my cousin who was mistaken for a Greek guy when he visited here in Canada. Many years ago, it was believed that this look came from shipwrecked Spanish sailors as they tried to escape after being defeated in the English Channel. Not surprisingly, this has long been disproven !
Great to see you enjoyed the coast of Gower and Swansea and that you saw and filmed some of the local wildlife including one of the seals in the sea. They can often be found bathing off of Worm's Head further along the Gower coast. We've been fortunate to have had another warm, dry spring with such great weather so far. In Britain we refer to the rounded / smoothed rocks on the beach as pebbles so we either have sandy or pebbled beaches. The ones you would have seen at the back of Caswell Bay and over the entire Pwll Du beach you passed earlier where you had to cross the bridge over the steam flowing down at the end of the wooded valley as it met the pool behind the beach (where you said about building a house there). Most of the pebbles on Pwll Du beach (4:22) were actually transported there as ballast in ships travelling there before it was dropped on the beach and limestone was transported back the other way. The tiny little houses on the beach are known as beach huts. They've no plumbing or electricity but can often sell for a five figure sum with many in other parts of the UK being sold for the same or a far greater price than an actual house!!! Personally, I would choose Verdi's ice-cream over Joe's but then I'm not from Swansea myself.
Good timing - the WCP was 10 years old on Thursday!
The coastal path is fantastic and has lots of unique elements in different parts of the country. But for me you can't beat the mountain areas of Wales, the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia are beautiful
I was in Southgate last month i was born and also live in Swansea but haven't seen most parts of Gower but been exploring beaches I never been to or haven't been to in years with my dad
Once we tried doing the Pembrokeshire coastal path, and we met a guy who was doing all of the Wales coast path, he was about half way through! He had some great stories and shared with us the best stretches. Makes me want to do all of it!
Great video, Swansea is such an awesome place!
Hi, Ash. If you like Langland and Caswell Bay.
You'll absolutely love Three Cliffs Bay and Rhosili Bay. Both are on The Gower, too. I was on The Coast Path yesterday. Nolton Haven to Solva. I bloody love it!😎🏴
Hope you visited Pennard Castle or Three cliffs we call it , it's my favourite place on the Gower.
Lovely video💚
So sad that you have had to leave after your 6 months. Please come back if you are able xx
If it's a beach you want - go to Pendine Sands, it's 7 miles long! I would echo the comment about Tenby & West Wales - Pembroke Castle is well worth a visit. St Davids is OK, but it is very tourist orientated! That whole area has a mild microclimate compared with just a few miles away. It's all uphill & downhill walking, so be prepared! ps minor crit. - tone down the music a notch!
Nice presentation
Good idea cycling the last bit. It's quite tedious slogging along the final stretch from Mumbles to Swansea - I might do that next time.
Tedious?! The views are superb!
@@oliverroderick2353 But the view doesn't change and it's close to or along side the main road and if you've already walked from Southgate it just becomes a slog. Did it the first time and that was enough - caught the bus from Mumbles the next time.
Looking Happy and Healthy Ash! Enjoy!
Nice Vlog Ashley lovely landscape never travelled much in Wales certainly not on that coast I like the trains with are mostly not on this coast.
My wife used to love Verdi's ice-cream and we went often. We lived on the western side of the Gower at Llangennech.
A pasty in the cool coastal air with chips - AMAZING!!
The pasty was invented by the wives of Cornish miners.
That thick crust that you hold onto while eating it was for the safety of the miners because they were not able to wash their hands before eating their lunch and that way they wouldn't consume the arsenic that was found near the tin that they were mining.
Hi Ash glad you're in my home city and I hope that you really enjoy your visit
Such a beautiful coastal hike!
I live near here so do this a lot 👍
Hi Ashley I'm from Swansea but I've lived in San Francisco for 4 decades I was in Swansea this June for 5 weeks the Gower is lovely but you should try Joe's ice cream if you get there again a fun video thanks
Glad you got onto the coast path but you still need to see Pembrokeshire (if you can get back here) to really be blown away the landscape.
I live in Gower, you should have headed in the opposite direction on the path, you would have seen some of the best Beaches in Wales, IMO, great video, thanks for promoting our area
The gower peninsula is in Swansea, yes it's beautiful 😍
Hi great video
Glad you went to the Gower
Hi Ash, as I’ve commented on another vid you uploaded when you get back to USA you can find a Swansea in Massachusetts, California, Illinois and Arizona. Swansea, Massachusetts was named after some of the first settlers there in the 1600’s were from Swansea, Wales 🏴🇺🇸😊
I believe there are quite a few Swansea’s around the world including one in NSW & one in Tasmania.😊
I wouldn't hike to the one in Death Valley. 🤔
Gorgeous but pity it was done on such a dull day we have had glorious weather every day since the end of May Bank Holidays which were lovely. I live local to this area.
10:05 I reckon Joe's Ice Cream Parlour was about half a mile behind your right shoulder as you stood outside Verdi's. Check it out another time - it's worth it :)
I was working in Southgate last week. I didn't see much of it though. Just the pub
You look very Happy 😊
such good vibes.
I hope you were able to sneak in a bit of a makeout sesh yourself. 💖
Great video again 👏 seeing as you like the coast so much I might suggest 1 of the most unique beaches in the world right here In wales. Its in the north and known as whistling sands. Its called whistling sands because when you walk on the sand it makes like a whistling sound. If you don't have time to get there then check it out on TH-cam.
Beautiful places. I can’t do 10 miles walking,but electric bike I can 😀
You should vist clyne gardens i love it there from swansea south wales caswel valley you should go there its a big woods Joe's icecream is in the village mumbles
It's believed that "The Mumbles" derives from a nickname given it by French sailors who thought that, when viewed from the sea, the headland vaguely resembles a pair of boobs: "les mamelles" in French.
Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have had the arm strength for the rope swing either! LOL
Glimpses of your fella, is he getting camera brave ?
love your vids....who is the bloke youre with :) -- if youre in wales you should do shell island
Love it! :D x
Your in wales it's not a pasty it's an Oggie or Teddyoggie depending where you are??
A path well trodden or half ridden in your case, just as well it was a bit chilly else that couple in the rocks may have been naked.
I loved your video from Assam in India Our city Guwahati
love you ,,, brilliant xoxoxoxoxoxox
On one of the beaches in the Mumbles they built Dobby's house in Harry Potter
Long time no see!! Don't stay long not showing plz 🤗
Well that was mean. I live around the corner, you could have said you'd be there. I would have treated you both to am evening meal. Ohh well glad you enjoyed the local area. 🙃