Day 16 - Newport

Rest Day

Weather - Sunny, Cool - Max 15

Accommodation: Carningli House B&B

Feelings: Neil - Relaxed, Henk - Relaxed, Di - Relaxed, John - Comatose! 

This was the second rest day of our walk. Our last one was on Day Nine at Marloes when we visited Skomer Island so it wasn't exactly a rest day as we walked over the island looking at the birds. Today gave us the first chance to go to a laundrette and this was our first job of the day after a later breakfast. It was good to have clean smelling clothes again. 

We revisited the Newport Estuary which was looking very different in the sun today compared to overcast and rainy weather of yesterday.  The tide was very low. 

Newport is a small village which seems popular with walkers and tourists. The Main Street is very narrow and takes a lot of traffic to and fro from Fishguard to Cardigan. We watched as large tractors drove through forcing oncoming cars onto the footpath. We had a morning coffee break in one of Newport's side streets. 

Neil, Henk and I decided to visit Cardigan in the afternoon using the new bus service linking the little towns on the Pembrokeshire Coast. It was a twenty-five minute bus ride between Newport and Cardigan. Cardigan sits about three kilometres further along from our final walking destination of St Dogmael but we wouldn't be visiting there unless we visited it this afternoon. It's a bigger and busier town than we expected sitting above the River Teifi and its estuary and has a population of about 4000. As with the many other places we have been whilst in Wales we found that there was a high incidence of the Welsh language being spoken. 

Tomorrow is our last day on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and it is a long walk at 26kms before reaching St Dogmael. It is apparently the toughest day of the whole walk so we will be leaving early. The walk has gone very quickly and we have enjoyed it greatly.