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Carmarthenshire
Laugharne	Laugharne is perhaps best known for its associations with Dylan Thomas
	Even during their earlier stays in Laugharne, Dylan and Caitlin had dreamed of living in the Boat House. It was certainly not the material comfort or the practicality of the house that attracted them. In fact, the house was notoriously cold and damp, and did not boast electricity or running water and a bathroom.
The Boat House		The Boat House
		The parlour was the best room in the house, where special guests would be received. It was a formal room, not the living room for the family. The parlour has been restored to what it would probably have been like when Dylan and Caitlin lived here. The furniture, family photographs and the numerous smaller items in the parlour are mainly from the 1940’s and the 1950’s. Of particular interest is the desk near the door. This belonged to Dylan’s father and was given to Dylan.
The Boat House	The Boat House parlour		View to Laugharne from the Boat House
	Dylan Thomas’s writing shed began its life back in the 1920s, a Dr Cowan, who spent his holidays at the boathouse, bought the shed to house his Wolseley car. He paid £75 to erect the £5 shed on cast iron pillars on the cliffside at a time when the average house price was just £200. The shed was built by Billy Williams, a carpentry apprentice at Scourfields of Meidrim, building the shed in panels. It was brought down from Meidrim by horse and cart and erected on the platform on a cliff-ledge a hundred yards from the Boat House.
Dylan Thomas's Writing Shed			Interior of writing shed.
Overlooking the estuary of the river Tâf at Laugharne in November	Laugharne Castle was established in the early twelfth century as an earthwork castle, it was rebuilt in stone by the Anglo-Norman de Brian family during the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Sir John Perrot later transformed it into a Tudor mansion in the sixteenth century.	Seats near the castle	An Excellence Award has recently been given to a project that over 50 young people from Laugharne Youth Club worked on to create a life size sculpture of the famous poet Dylan Thomas
Pembrokeshire
St David's
	Built upon the site of St David's 6th century monastery St David's Cathedral has been a site of pilgrimage and worship for many hundreds of years and remains a church serving a living community. This community is represented not only by the people of the parish of St David's but by all who find peace in this place of prayer and devotion
St David's Cathedral			St David's Cathedral
	St David's Cathedral
	St David's Cathedral		Gateway to St David's Cathedral
Bridge and stream behind St David's Cathedral		St David's Cathedral Tower
	Bishops Palace, as it now stands, was largely the work of Bishop Henry de Gower (1328-47) who built the great hall, its finest single feature, and created the distinctive arcaded parapets so characteristic of his richly decorated approach. No expense was spared in creating a residence fit for a major figure of both Church and State.
Bishops Palace			Bishops Palace and the Cathedral
Bishops Palace	Bishops Palace		Bishops Palace and the Cathedral
Tenby
Life boat station and bay	Coloured houses	Tenby Bay	Tenby Harbour
Tenby harbour and castle	Tenby harbour and boats	Small boats in Tenby harbour	Tenby Bay
	Tenby beach	St Catherine's Island
View from the house George Elliott stayed in	Tenby harbour	St Mary's Church and Main Street	Five Arches in Tenby City Walls
Victorian post box	Memorial to Robert Recorde in the church	Merchants House, a National Trust property.	Castle Hill Tenby