Pembroke Coastal Path Introduction

About thirty years ago in her former life as a geography teacher which included running Duke of Edinburgh's Award courses, Judith took a party of kids to Pembrokeshire. She was much impressed by the coastal path and when we looked at where we wanted to walk this spring she suggested we walked the route. We decided to have a self-guided holiday rather than going on a group trip. Although we have walked carrying all our own gear in the past we did not wish to this time and so looked for a company offering pre-booked tours with luggage transfer. Fortunately the first company in the list was Celtic Trails.* We booked a ten day trip with them. A few days before our departure for Wales we received a thick envelope containing a file with full details of our trip including instructions and/or maps of how to get to the accommodation, a guide book and two OS maps. From what we can gather from talking to other walkers in our overnight accommodation at least one company does not offer maps and a guide and does not go into detail
We had specified walking around 10 miles a day which was good choice for our roughly 70 year old bodies. The Coast Path is tough at times with a number of descents and ascents across bays and over headlands.
*Just to stress we have no financial interest in Celtic Trails.

Hello

For years we have cycled in summer and done some walking in winter, either with the Odenwald Club or our cycling club the ADFC or on organised tours with the Ramblers' Association Spain and Italy, but have limited our longer trips to the Christmas period. Recently we have decided that as long as we are able we will try to go on holiday in the autumn and spring. We wanted to write about these trips. The ideal would be an equivalent to the Crazy Guy on a Bike website. We do have a cycling blog, but we don't want to dilute the bike content, so decided to start an infrequent blog where we can ramble about our rambles.