Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The trip to Carew Castle, St Gofan's Church and Freshwater Beach

Today Mum and I travelled with Dave as above.  We had a beautiful walk around the castle and tidal mill.  Then on to St Gofan's.  It's surrounded by a military range so wisest not to enter when the red flags are flying.  We could hear gunfire, but no red flags where we wanted to go.
The story is that St Gofan was fleeing Irish pirates.  A cleft miraculously opened in the cliffs and enveloped him until the pirates had left.  This all happened somewhere between the 6th and 11th Century.  St Gofan then built a tiny church among the rocks.
This gives you some idea of the inside of the church.
Here's St Gofan's unheralded hanging garden - white daisies growing in the rock face.
Talking of miracles, Steve I've tried 3 times to reply to your email with 2 pictures but keep getting the message that my reply is undeliverable due to the spma filter.
I didn't photo Freshwater Beach.  It is a beautiful beach where some of the Crowe / Blanchett Robin Hood was filmed, and Shell House was constructed for a Harry Potter film in a grassy dell in a sandhill.

7 comments:

  1. wonder what a spma filter is?

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  3. now know what a spma filter is, a spam filter, but that does not seem to help, have pressed lots of buttons and tabs etc and, well I am not, never was designed as a computer person.

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  4. Now I know why spelling is important... I'm very tempted to go into the blog and correct the spelling, thus confusing readers for generations to come...

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  5. Loving seeing your ramblings about- sent you an email today with some updated details in it. Let me know if you get it.

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  6. No a smpa filter is known as a smpa filter, it just happens to actually be a spam filter...it is merely to confuse those of us who are not mpucteero literate je pense

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  7. Best not to waste amps sending maps to Pams...

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