What I Did In Swansea, Wales As An American Tourist.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- After an awesome day of the Coast Path I decided to stay over night and enjoy a day in Swansea. The second largest city in Wales. I spent the morning in a café, on the beach and exploring the Waterfront Museum. In the afternoon I was able to join a rive boat tour unexpectedly. It was a relaxing time and a great day in a new city.
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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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As someone who's spent all 18 years of their life living in Swansea, I've always complained that there's nothing to do here but seeing this reminds me that it's an amazing place for tourists
As a life-long Swansea inhabitant, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself
Same here brother, born and bred..... can't beat a scran at Sam's or Franco's café...
In the words of the immortal Dylan Thomas: "An ugly lovely town" - which I have called home for most of my life. This woman was dangerously close in making it sound like a cool place to be.
I’d call it a pretty shltty city
@@emilyshevlin2547 How so? Do you live in Swansea?
@@NihilisticHedonism It's a quote from the movie twin town :)
Great to see an american visit the real uk and not just london i love wales
I'm a Swansea man born and bred. You need to go around the Gower. Beautiful coastline. 🏴
I've lived in Swansea all my life so it's great to see someone enjoying what the city has to offer. So glad you enjoyed your visit, come again soon
Same
Same!
I live in Swansea and it's definitely got a charm about it. I lived in Sydney for a few years back in the early 90s and it's a fantastic place to live and work but I never found a beach that beats Rhossili. Good video.
Aaahhhh Rhossili. Love the place!!!
Hands down , Rhossili the best beach I’ve been too
My hometown, I live in Swansea & was born in Swansea. This video makes me proud of my city, we also have the largest indoor market in Wales which also had awards too & several visits from Prince Charles. Glad you enjoyed our city, makes us Swansea Jack's happy. 🏴❤️
@@mmg5988 Absolutely is. 😊
@@mmg5988 thx & you too❤️
Swansea is amazing. Not many cities offer beaches, countryside like the gower and all the convenience of a city.
Great video. I've lived in Swansea my whole life and didnt even know there was boat tours 🤦♂️ definitely something I'm going to check out in the summer.
Absolutely & utterly endearing! Your fabulous, sunny disposition makes you a perfect guide & your videos are always interesting & fun to watch. You are really appreciated & we look forward to having you back on our shores in the very near future. Stay safe 👍
Wow! The motorboat that you can see at 2minutes until 2mins 10secs in while watching the swing bridge open and close is mine. Thanks for my 10seconds of fame.
Always fun to see your delight in your adventures.
I was born in swansea and been here all my 24 years of life and having someone like yourself come in and appreciate the things of Swansea that most overlook was nice to see it appreciated :) even I didn't know about the boat!
found your channel randomly and gave you a follow!
if there's anything you wanna ask or want some tips with gimme a shout! :)
This made me very pleased to know americans enjoy our land
My home town I'm really glad you enjoyed
Fantastic Swansea 👍 🥰
I love Swansea
I went to college in Swansea a long time ago. Loved my time there.
Loved this. I don’t see many vlogs in Swansea. I live in wales so I am quite familiar with this place 🥰 still watching.
So glad that you are happy in our lovely country of Wales. Take the power boat trips from Cardiff Bay, great fun.
that is nice!! I am from Swansea and it's an amazing place to be born in/go to lovee it
My beautiful Swansea 🌊 Great video
Love the history,and finally got some nice weather
🌞👍 Take some butties & pop,cracking day out.
Thank you for sharing. Take care.x
I BELIEVE Welsh is the oldest Language in Europe, Basque is not known to be connected to any Language in Europe. IT straddles the French & Spanish border .Should I say about Welsh the continous Language.
0:05 The sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea
Aw i remember watching your videos (from your previous life) glad you are back and great to see you are over here in the UK. Keep up the great work :)
I LOVE this so much!
Great to see your enjoying your time here Ash. Hope you get a chance to get to Cefn Sidan beach and see the surrounding small harbour town of burry port. Not a great shopping experience but an amazing place with views to die for. If you would like history on the area be free to ask. Cefn sidan beach is located in Pembrey national park. And has a ⛷️ slope located in it. You can also hire bikes there it's a huge area you can even go horse riding there. Or just spend the day walking and enjoy the beach or walk through the forests there.
I hv lived n Swansea all my life and never knew about the boat tour. I will check it out sometime. Hope you had a lovely time in Swansea :)
Great video Ash. I especially enjoyed the boat tour plus the glass elevator 🙂
There used to be a railway along the seafront of Swansea. It was the worlds first passenger railway.
Great video. Boat trip looked Lovley .
Hope your doing well Ashley, have a lovley Week
Take care 🥰
Ive been to swansea for christmas shopping with friends when i was in school
Croeso i Gymru! Welcome to Wales! I hope you have had a marvelous time in our fab country!
Hi Ash I’m a Christian living in South Wales and have recently discovered your videos and subscribed. I have also seen your previous channel and just wanted to say I think you are such an amazing lovely person. To have been through what you’ve been through and still be so trusting, positive and optimistic is beautiful. Well done you. I sincerely wish you all the best in the next few years. Take care😊💕😊
Why do u feel to say your Christian ?
@@Poweroftouch Exactly. My response to her would be, well, I'm sane, why not try it.
Vegetarians are the same.
@@r.davies2702 I'm a vegetarian!
I'm glad you enjoyed you're visit to swansea. shame you only seen the city centre. so much unexplored. Hope you had a nice time and come back soon
You seem happy again. That makes me happy 😊 keep traveling!
Nice video Ash!
Hello my friend loved your video bestwishes from Swansea South Wales GB
As someone from/livrs in Swansea, it's both cool to see it being shown from a unique lense and that iv'e also been to every place you have shown.
Looks like you got a lot packed in! We absolutely love Swansea. Great video!
Wow! Ive been in Swansea for about 6 months and never been anywhere.. Your video really such an inspiration.
I probably going tomorrow for river trip!
Have a good day Ash!
I’ve lived in Swansea all my life and I didn’t even know about the boat tour even though my office is just the other side!! 😂😂
Good morning from Swansea.. Good to see this video..Hope you enjoyed your visit..
Well Bach, gotta love Swansea (said in a Swansea accent), love my Ugly Lovely City 🥰
Wales has always been my dream land but God knows when my dream will be fulfilled...!
Clearasil is available to buy in Boots in the Quadrant Centre or over in Morfa, they also have wax strips for moustache removal.
Hi my home town loved to have seen you x
Big hugs from london.. ( canning town )
I love how the machine buttons show a nice postive green for Welsh and a negative orange for English :)
interesting..that is where I live actually. my apt is in marina.
Glad you enjoyed the best place in Wales
My home town 🥰
Watching this from Swansea - Tenby and Saundersfoot is another great area to visit if you ever re visit Wales 🏴 😊
I hope that old lightship gets saved and restored, not many left these days, even fewer still in service.
I worked on restoring the light ship and the sea mark in the late 1980's when I was in Scouts. It's a shame to see their current state of disrepair.
Swansea Lets goo
Theres loads more things you can do , you got 2 bowling places with an arcade ,crazy golf on the windstreet,swimming ,trampoline park and an inflatable park, lazer tag theres loads more ,if theres anything you would like to know or see in swansea id love to help out :)
A lovely day for messing about on a river!(or a marina!)
I'm from Swansea. Townhill area yass! To the Swan. Who are we jack army!!
@@mmg5988 where you from? ❤
@@mmg5988 why thankyou as Dylan Thomas said it's a ugly lovley town 😊
@@mmg5988 The only thing is that we do have a massive drug problem as in class A drugs in South Wales unfortunately I've have lost to friends many to count. R.I.P to all my jaks 💔🌹 try watching swansea love storey here on TH-cam xoxo
@@mmg5988 just a warning Witch i should of stated first.. it is a hard watch and very triggering at the same time xoxo ❤
Me and my sister where in the sea there just the other morning! 😁
Hi Ashley, please do a video about how to be positive and full of energy.
The only place in Wales thats not depressing.
Thanks
Amazing work for My hometown super proud ❤️ regards Richard mark Lewis 🙂😊
I love you and all americans who visit
So smiley 🧡
Perhaps if you know that you will be away overnight it might be prudent to pack a charger for the camera batteries. Your videos are always enjoyable.
What a fun adventure. Still hoping you will unveil your reason for moving to Wales.
@Liza Me She already has; love.
Should have checked out the Dylan Thomas Centre you were right by it.
If you enjoyed Swansea you'd love the Gower
Hello, Can you please name where you booked the tickets from
Many of the exhibits at Swansea Maritime and transport museum came from Cardif's Maritime and transport museum which was knocked down for the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay water front.
Well, you can't have all the national museums in Cardiff can you :)
@@huw3851I think Cardiff needs a Maritime museum back to tell the history how and why the city was founded.
@@welshdude8025 If they had a smallish history of Cardiff museum I'd be interested in visiting but I quite like the Maritime Museum in Swansea and the coffee area is a comfortable place for a break. Perhaps Cardiff could house something in the old Docks Office - it would be about the right size and was mostly empty when I've wandered into it.
Having been to the old Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum, the old Cardiff Maritime museum and thirdly the newish Swansea Maritime Museum - all three multiple times since the 90s - I can vouch there's not that much that came from the old Cardiff one to Swansea so there should still be some exhibits Cardiff can house...somewhere
Super 😉
"... they filled the dock in then dug it all out again to make a Marina". There was another dock complex in Swansea they filled in and built on. They did the same in Cardiff, Newport, Briton Ferry and even little Porthcawl - it seems quite amazing how many of these assets they threw away.
They were no longer assets the size of metcantile shippping has grow & the old Victorian Docks could not Handle them also the old trades of Coal, Iron & Steel are no longer prominant theywere far too small for upgrades to Containerisation & to shallow!! The cost of upgrade far exceded the benifits the modern trade would have brought out of date & out of time better to find new & more rewarding uses aka leisure or refill & convert to realestate far more sensible !!
I also recommend u visit milford haven a new hotel has been built
How long are you in Swansea for??
Did you have some cockles and laverbread ? Followed by a Joe's ice cream.
Half my family lives in Swansea
Did you have a Joe's ice-cream? If not, why not? The best ice-cream in history of man kind. Also, I'm a Swansea Jack!!!! (And my mother used to work for Joe's ice-cream in the 1960s so I may be a biased 😁)
Welcome
As a Swansea Jack living on the other side of the world in Brunei, it was nice to see my home town again, but I was heartbroken to see the state of the 'Seamark' Pilot Cutter and the Lightship, stored at the Marina. I used to watch the Seamark in action, as a working vessel, very sad to see the way it is today. Thanks for the video and hope you enjoyed your stay.
The ship has been like that a number of years now brother. I too am born and bred Swansea. The council tends to do what typically support's their agenda via Westminster no doubt. Swansea residents need to be considered and consulted more on new development etc. It's our city after all. Best wishes
@@bunchofgrapesorafig It's the Welsh Government's responsibility, not Westminster's and not the Council's. They simply don't care, and as someone who lives on the Marina it is disgusting to see the state on those vessels, one of which went to Dunkirk to rescue our stranded troops.
@@ezioauditore3128 I beg to differ, because their all One in the same entity. Whatever name you call them, Council, Westminster or Welsh Government is irrelevant because the point is, is that on all and ever quarter, their irresponsible, do not represent the wishes and needs of the local residents, and go about like locusts, doing as though Wilt!!! Call them whatever name you like my friend, the funding doesn't come from the Magick money forest does it.
@@bunchofgrapesorafig *sigh* I never suggested anything about the nature of funding. You were making a point that was factually incorrect. It's the Welsh Government that is responsible. Your point about the ineptitude of all government is correct, though I actually think that had Westminster been in charge there is no way those ships would have been allowed to deteriorate. Why? Because the Welsh Government in Cardiff has little time for Swansea and our own local government thinks arenas and shopping centres are more important.
@@ezioauditore3128 my original point was not aimed at financial funding, hence the Magick money forest note, your putting words in my mouth according to your incorrect interpolation of things. Your unclear and inconcise logic has battled you to the point of using double speak, which leads us further away from my point originally. This has nothing to do with funding, or where it may come from in terms of monetary funds. Your comment contradicts itself. Maybe you'll lift the Vail of ovestanding, and see what I Really Meant before replying this time.
5:10 that be a lie. the counselors did some backhand dealing to fill the doc through a family members business. they got caught out and Dug some of it back out the the entire area is sinking and no mater how much concrete they pour into it the sand and water table are still shifting.
wooo it is been awhile i though you quit youtube hope you doing fine now greeting from libya
Love taking my grandkids to the new museum but the exhibits are so in the dark I can’t enjoy them as I used to in there as it was before they renovated it sad
What was the name of her original channel with her husband? I watched it but cannot remember
The Way Away
A lot like Washington .
It's strange seeing the areas I know being shown on camera
Should have visited town hill 😂
Cymru am byth 🏴🏴🏴🏴hello enjoy my country of wales
If you think these were nice spots, you should get yourself to Townhill, Trallwn or Penlan
When you get time Pl search Assamese wedding I loved it
If you like museums. Cardiff story museum near st David’s arcade and the national Cardiff museum are an absolute must. Really interesting.
Cardiff bay is absolutely beautiful too. Take a walk down the barrage especially on a nice day. Have a picnic on the grass. It’s a lovely day out. There’s also a some cute little shops down there which sell some unique things. Plus there’s the Wales millennium centre which is a beautiful theatre, techniquest a fun interactive experience museum for children and boat rides. Some go around areas and tell you about the history of the area, there’s one that goes from the city centre down the bay which leaves from Bute park (which I know you’re familiar with) plus there’s Senedd Cymru which is our Welsh assembly building.
Didn't go wine street and get pissed r.i p
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You missed out on something. If you walked up to The Uplands you could have seen one of the houses the poet Dylan Thomas lived in.
Bet she is gutted
It's quite a walk to The Uplands.
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no way i live in swansea gutted
Audio is very bad
Enjoyed the ride with you but you need to update your background music ; it sounds like an old film where the record is slightly slow and out of sync; sorry !