Travel Guide My Holidays Laugharne Carmarthenshire South Wales UK Review
Travel Guide My Holidays Laugharne Carmarthenshire South Wales UK Review
I also would like people to see where I have travelled, to and what their is to do in the UK.
The Best Eating Places Cheap Eats
* Annie's Cafe
* Florries Fish & Chips
* The New Three Mariners Inn
Moderate Priced Food
* The Portreeve's Tafarn
* Arthur's Resturant
* The Owl And The Pussycat Pub
Things To Do
* Laugharne Castle
* Dylan Thomas Boat House
* Dylan Thomas Walk
* Hill Farm Stables Horseback Riding Tours
* The Tin Shed Experience Military Museum
* St Martins Church
The Best Accomodation
* Forge Cottage Opens in new window
* The Boat House Bed And Breakfast
* The Broadway Country House
Hotel Booking Sites
* LateRooms.com
* Expedia.co.uk
* Booking.com
* Hotels.com
* TripAdvisor
* Opodo
* ebookers.com
Transport
* Car Parking
* Regular Bus Service
Weather
The weather in the UK can vary from day to day. Warmer and hotter months are between April to September. Colder months with snow,sleet and rain are between October and March. You can get some humidity and pollen is highest, between June and August for hayfever suffers. You can also get rain in between, April and September.
Currency
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Time Difference
During the winter months, Britain is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time and 10 hours behind Sydney. Western standard time is five hours behind.
From late March until late October, the clocks go forward one hour to British Summer Time (BST).
To check the correct time, contact the Speaking Clock service by dialling 123.
Weight And Measurements
Britain is officially metric, in line with the rest of Europe. However, imperial measures are still in use, especially for road distances, which are measured in miles. Imperial pints and gallons are 20 per cent larger than US measures.
Imperial to Metric
1 inch = 2.5 centimetres
1 foot = 30 centimetres
1 mile = 1.6 kilometres
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 pound = 454 grams
1 pint = 0.6 litres
1 gallon = 4.6 litres
Metric to Imperial
1 millimetre = 0.04 inch
1 centimetre = 0.4 inch
1 metre = 3 feet 3 inches
1 kilometre = 0.6 mile
1 gram = 0.04 ounce
1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
Passport And Visas Requirements To Enter The UK
Please note: Following the recent referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union (EU), there are currently no changes in the way people travel to Britain. The following guidelines still apply:
If you're planning an adventure to the UK, depending on your nationality and your reason for visiting, you may need to organise a visa.
If you're an American, Canadian or Australian tourist, you'll be able to travel visa-free throughout the UK, providing you have a valid passport and your reason for visiting meets the immigration rules (link is external).
Citizens from some South American and Caribbean countries as well as Japan are also able to travel visa-free around the UK.
European Union citizens, non-EU member states of the EEA (Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland), Switzerland, and members of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) do not need a visa to enter the UK.
If you have any further visa questions visit the official UK government website.
Anyone that has any questions, please feel free the comment below and I will answer them for you.
You can dial 999 to reach either the police, fire and ambulance departments.
Anyone that has any questions, please feel free the comment below and I will answer them for you.
Thank You
Rebecca Jordan
Rebecca's Travels
Eli Jenkins' Prayer from Under Milkwood - Soloist Jonathan Quick
Performed at the Vancouver Celebration of Wales Grand Concert at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, Vancouver October 30th 2010.
All The Bells, Martin Creed's Work No 1197
On The Scotsman Steps (Work No. 1059), Edinburgh, Scotland.
All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes. Started at 0810, joining bellringers throughout Great Britain to celebrate the opening of the Olympics 2012.
Quite tricky to ring bells with one hand and film with the other (using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8) - good fun chatting with others in the crowd..
Brown's Hotel (and Tom Jones) on the South Bank Show
Brown's Hotel briefly featured in this 1988 edition of the South Bank Show which celebrated the George Martin produced version of Under Milk Wood.
Bellringing at Astbury, Cheshire
Another go at Cornovii Delight Major on the lovely eight at Astbury, near Congleton, Cheshire. A rather superb looking church - but has never been unlocked whenever I've visited. The bells are a 1925 Taylor six, augmented to eight in 1998.
MY NAME IS LONDON TOWN by Reg Meuross
Reg Meuross live dates: regmeuross.com/events
From the album LEAVES & FEATHERS (2013)
Reg's celebration of the capital city My Name is London Town was inspired by the Woody Guthrie song My Name is New York City. It has a sting in the chorus I'm your vision going up, your nightmare coming down and has been described as a 'modern Streets Of London'.
What the papers say:
My Name Is London Town:
....throws down a gauntlet to Ralph McTell's mighty Streets Of London, and comes up with an even better lyric wrapped around an unforgettable tune. Mick Tems, Folk Wales
.....capturing the spirit of the capital in the same manner as Ray's Waterloo Sunset. Allan Wilkinson, Northern Sky
....successfully drags 'Streets of London.' into 2013 Malcolm Carter, Pennyblack Music
REG
A mighty songwriter and an equally good singer MARTIN CARTHY
There's something special about the way he writes and delivers a song TOWNES VAN ZANDT
'Intelligent and thought-provoking songs, beautifully made and skilfully delivered' The Times
Mike Harding Folk Show Beautiful and intelligent songs...
Stunning photography by SUE FOLL, kindly donated from her book of 'everyday moments of London', STREET provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop.
Reg was invited to record Leaves & Feathers in Abbey Road Studios in 2012, and has already received great reviews: This is stunning Mike Harding Folk Show; Beautiful and sparse and lovely Iain Anderson BBC Scotland; He really draws you in, he's a great storyteller A great Sound Frank Hennessy, Celtic Heartbeat BBC Wales.
My Name Is London Town, a haunting bittersweet love letter that embraces both 'the bundle of rags in the Oxford Street doorway' and 'the cry of the Smithfield fishmonger at dawn', the dome of St Paul's and the Regent's Park mosque. But if London is 'your vision going up...your nightmare coming down... the Westminster fool...the Pentonville clown'. NetRhythms Review
...the supremely evocative, bittersweet homage... will I'm sure in time come to rival McTell's celebrated Streets Of London. Pennyblack Music
My Name Is London Town' successfully drags 'Streets of London' into 2013... it made this listener feel more home sick that he has done in many years. Folk & Roots
Reg Meuross regmeuross.com
Sue Foll suefoll.co.uk
Compiled by fromthewhitehouse.com
Lily and Reg Meuross; The Goodbye Hat; Priston Village Hall
Lily and Reg Meuross; The Goodbye Hat; Priston Village Hall; 30 April 2016. Sound and film by Priston Festival .
THE ABANDONEND POST OFFICE
The Lyceum post office Liverpool Abandonend uk Exploring with jake Facebook
Reg Meuross : Faraway People (live)
Reg Meuross (regmeuross.com) playing his new song Faraway People live at the We Shall Overcome benefit gig at the Golden Hind, Cambridge 03.10.15. Reg says he wrote the song after finding the Hephaestus site which was a long list of all the people up until the end of 2014 who had died directly as a result of cuts to their benefits by Atos or because of the bedroom tax. The names are real and just a tiny few of the many who suffered.
Original lyrics © Reg Meuross:
FARAWAY PEOPLE
Carl Payne, Leanne Chambers and Terry McGarvey
There but for grace luck and fortune go we
Wayne Grew, Linda Wootton and poor David Coupe
But for the whim of our government go me and you
Stephanie Bottrill lived only on custard
While her small income paid for a bedroom unused
One cold winters day she walked under a lorry
Her benefits cut and assistance refused
Julian Little was bound to a wheelchair
His machine in the spare room to keep him alive
‘it’s a luxury people like you can’t afford’
Said the council and Julian withered and died
CHORUS
These are the voices of faraway people
The man in the street and the hospital bed
The scandal of governments unfit to govern
Look down look down look down
You’ll be unfit to work when you’re dead
Seven ropes swinging and seven souls singing
Lifted from poverty lifted from pain
Freed of their guilt and relieved of their burden
For the price of a hotel or lunch on the plane
For 300 pounds you spend a day on the benches
And award for a week just a sixth of that fee
To a man who faced death for this land in the trenches
And sooner than starve hangs himself from a tree
Look into the eyes of Nicholas Barker
Barely able to hold up the gun
Or young Christelle Pardoe clutching her baby
As she leaps 5 months gone into oblivion.
Reg Meuross 'Let Me Forget' - live - from the album December
New Album release 18 March HAT010 regmeuross.com
Reg Meuross 'Let Me Forget' - live - from the album December
After 10 album releases, award winning singer-songwriter Reg Meuross has returned to the solo format which inspired him to write and sing in the first place. December is a collection of ten of his most beautiful and reflective songs, which go straight to the heart.
Many will know Reg for the extraordinary intimacy of his live solo performances, and it’s the countless requests at these events for ‘the one that sounds just like what we’ve just heard’ that have inspired the production of this distinctive and entirely solo album of new songs.
On the 3rd of December Reg drove to London with his newly restored 1944 Martin guitar on a promise. That promise was to repay the kindness of various friends and supporters who had helped in bringing that sweet little instrument back from San Jose to the workshop of the master luthier, Stuart Palmer, in Doncaster. The moment he held that lovingly restored guitar in his hands, Reg set about fulfilling his promise by writing an entirely new collection of songs on it, and it was these which he brought to his great friend, the drummer and recording engineer, Roy Dodds' Kitchen Floor Studio in White City. Over two days Reg recorded straight to mic with no overdubs or studio trickery.
This is the sound of beautifully crafted songs in their purest, most original and definitive form. One man - who just happens to be 'one of the finest songwriters this country has produced' - and his guitar (and a touch of harmonica).
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Ringing at Mossley, Greater Manchester
Ringing on the back six of this M&S eight. Rehung in 2000 by Pembletons, they go well and sound quite pleasant, if rather quiet in the ringing chamber. The ropes are an odd assortment of lengths and heights however!
Peter Blake and Under Milk Wood | Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
'Llareggub: Peter Blake illustrates Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood' was an exhbition that was held at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales between 23 November 2013 - 16th March 2014.
The exhibition featured portraits drawn in black and white pencil on tinted paper, watercolors illustrating the dream sequences in the play, ‘narratives and locations’ in a mix of media including collage, and photographs that Blake took himself in Laugharne in the 1970s.
'Llareggub: Darluniau Peter Blake ar gyfer Under Milk Wood' oedd arddangosfa a gynhaliwyd yn Amgueddfa Cymru rhwng 23 Tachwedd 2013 - 16 Mawrth 2014.
Roedd yr arddangosfa’n cynnwys portreadau mewn pensil du a gwyn ar bapur arlliwiedig, lluniau dyfrlliw o olygfeydd breuddwydiol y ddrama, darluniau ‘naratif a lleoliadol’ mewn amrywiol gyfryngau gan gynnwys collage, a ffotograffau a dynnwyd gan Blake ei hun yn Nhalacharn yn y 1970au.
Dylan Thomas 'last century's best', says Jimmy Carter
The Laugharne Festival has had a special contribution from one of Dylan Thomas's best-known fans - former American president Jimmy Carter.
He has been speaking about how he first came to love the work of the Welsh poet whose centenary is being celebrated in 2014.
English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists in the Kingdom of England over, principally, the manner of its government. The first and second wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The war ended with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.
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The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers) over, principally, the manner of England's governance. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The war ended with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.
The overall outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I (1649); the exile of his son, Charles II (1651); and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–1653) and then the Protectorate under the personal rule of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1658) and subsequently his son Richard (1658–1659). In England, the monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship was ended, while in Ireland the victors consolidated the established Protestant Ascendancy. Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that an English monarch cannot govern without Parliament's consent, although the idea of Parliament as the ruling power of England was only legally established as part of the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
South Wales wedding photographer favourite moments 2018
South Wales wedding photographer best bits 2018
My favourite wedding moments from 2018. A collection of shots from South Wales weddings from rustic to boutique venues in Swansea, Cardiff, Brecon, Llanelli, West Wales, Bristol, Gower.
King Arthur Hotel, Oldwalls Gower, Oxwich Bay Hotel, Lanelay Hall, Perriswood Gower, Stradey Castle, Rosedew Farm, Oceanview windmill Gower, Morgans Hotel.
The Writing Of 'Dragonfly' by singer-songwriter Reg Meuross
What sets Meuross apart from other singer/songwriters is that he is a master storyteller who sets his short, thought provoking essays to the sweetest of melodies. Meuross, like all good storytellers, draws you into his songs with that warm and inviting voice and once in you won’t want to leave. The verses [of Dragonfly] build until that simple yet so catchy chorus breaks in, you’ll be singing along to it by the end of the song. It’s not until you listen to the words that you realise that a song concerning terrorism and 9/11 has got you singing along like the world is a happy place… Malcolm Carter, PennyBlack Music
Dragonfly… is probably one of the most instantly accessible pop songs I've come across in ages. It's got that steadily building power chord structure that eventually erupts into the single word chorus of Dragonfly - I defy anyone not to sing along. Allan Wilkinson, Northern Sky Magazine.
Somerset singer-songwriter Reg Meuross tells us about how and why he wrote Dragonfly, the title track of his 2008 album release, written after 9/11 and the London bombings. He talks about writing authentically and about writing musically, even when it's about ugly subject matter. Reg is running a songwriting retreat 4-6 August 2017 in Halsway Manor Somerset
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DRAGONFLY
Silver wings from the blue crash and burn, cut in two
Free to fly foreign shores, free to die for your cause
Born in grief, raised in chains, blind belief, fear no pain
Learn to fight learn to hate.Life is war death is great
The world is your enemy God is your king
And if it’s his will you’ll destroy everything
you show no mercy for innocents pity or shame
Sting dragon sting
Dragonfly
Is your faith so correct it requires no respect
For the good and the pure and the wrongs they endure
Those who live and let live knowing life is to give?
They’ve a right to belong ride the bus sing their song
You crash into satellites blood on your wings
You’re jealous of sunlight and other god’s things
The sun shines for everyone, peace is a blessing you earn
Burn dragon burn
Dragonfly
Reg Meuross regmeuross.com
Thomas Rain Crowe: A Writers Life, an Interview and Reading
An interview and reading with Thomas Rain Crowe with Renee Ambroso and Gene Hyde. Sponsored by UNC Asheville English Department and Ramsey Library Special Collections.