Day 24 –Amroth to Carmarthen

 

Date: Wednesday 24^th June 2009  Distance: 24.17

 

 Elegant breakfast, elegant hosts, everything done very nicely. I loved Amroth (probably only a little more than Bob.) It was a hilly ride out through country lanes with high hedges. The foxglove spikes through the wild verges have stayed with us throughout but there is less honeysuckle than in mid Wales.

 

We stopped for simple sandwich lunch at St. Clears in a little café near Black Lion Hotel. Then we headed East and crossed the horrible A40. For other people taking this route the cycle route completely misses out St. Clears, but if you go down to the village, turn right at the traffic lights and continue through the village you come to a place where the buses turn around, and you can cross the A40 here. There is an island in the middle for safer crossing.

 

The cycle path left us high and dry in a very bad place. Picking up the cycle path again it took us on the right side of the A40 for a few yards, then the old A40, then A40 again and finally back into lanes where we hardly saw anyone, no shops or pubs until nearly in Camarthan.

 

For a large town there were few B and Bs and hotels. We procured the last double bedroom in the Boars Head Hotel and got space in special room leading to the cellars for the tandem.

 

It was quiet for dinner-just us. Bob chose sewen(sea trout) and I had vegetarian curry. We were seated in ceremony only minutes later to be told the sewen was not available after all and sir could choose anything on the menu free of charge. They never told us what happened to it. Cat? Floor? Gone off? Burnt? Anyway he enjoyed his substitute dish, a juicy rib eyed steak.

 

The room was hot and noisy being on the main street but we hoped it would quieten later. It never did. The other party of cyclists came to the room next door to ours in the early hours and had noisy exchanges then got up at 6 am.