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Rosslyn Leinenbach, Germany
I love walking on Rhossili hill and do so every time I am in Swansea.The Gower will always be a part of me.
Tue May 26 17:29:36 2009
Jennifer, Brynna
Gower is a magical place for me. When I need inspiration, solace, comfort or peace.......I head for Gower - preferably North Gower, where the pace is slower, the tourists fewer and the space is greater! On North Gower your leaps as you stand on top of Cefn Bryn beside Arthur's stone and survey the magnificent views and share the peace with the gentle Gower ponies. Experience this at sunset, and you will never forget it!
Tue May 26 16:34:55 2009
Derek Jones. Parkmill
I achieved my dream 15 years ago when I moved into Gower. My job takes me all over the world and I see many nice places but sitting at Pennard Castle in the summer watching the sun go down over a flooded Parkmill valley beats them all.
Mon Jan 26 15:28:56 2009
Gary Jenkins
My favourite beach is Torbay. When you walk down from Penmaen and then stand on top of the hill overlooking the bay it is simply beautiful. Also the view overlooking Crawley Woods and Oxwich from the cliff top is just as exhilarating. Rhossili is magnificent.
Wed Nov 19 14:49:25 2008
Alun Dando from Bridgend
My favourite has to be Caswell Bay. Beautiful walks and the best beach in Gower - breathtaking view across the channel and just a short stroll to Mumbles with all the pubs and restaurants you want - fantastic.
Mon Sep 29 16:18:49 2008
Karen S Wales
What a lovely place - Gower. Nice easy walks, a variety of local wildlife to see on the coast...why not join a local history group you can learn so much more about local areas.
Thu Aug 7 14:44:42 2008
Maria McPartland
I first discovered the Gower five years ago when my parents moved to Pennard. It is all so beautiful, peaceful and unspoilt. It is a favourite place for my husband, me and dogs and the camper van. We have had some glorious walks from Three Cliffs Bay to Oxwich Bay Hotel and back again.
Tue Mar 25 10:32:38 2008
Suzanne from Gower
The best time in Gower was a couple of weeks ago - we got cut off due to the flooded roads the sun came up and the birds were singing and nothing was moving except a farmer on a tractor. It was pure peace.
Mon Feb 25 10:17:01 2008
Mark Lyndon from Swansea
Stairway To Heaven: Artists-at-heart gasp and scramble up the nearly never-ending shambles of a stairway, to draw inspiration from a view hewed from heaven.
Here, bedazzled by Gower’s boundless charm, I glow and grow more romantic by the moment. Incarcerated in a wind-whipped, crumbling castle, overseeing the tumbling, restless sea, are ageing ghosts of knights from days of yore.
Gilded fillies roam in slow motion upon dunes that spill downhill, as a helter-skelter of sheer magnificence, into a forest-fringed bay of unsurpassed splendour.Other-worldly is the sleek silhouette of a lone heron. He wanders on his wading way, then drifts aloft, o’er the craggy, triple cliff of a rollercoaster, towards a jagged, jutting tor.
A slender finger is the silvern stream that slips seaward, ringed by golden sands. So, with gentle, late evening sunshine jigging softly on my face, I am smitten, free fall into a soporific state, then nestle next to tranquillity. Pray, stay with me awhile, for within such muffled, hazy dreams are our souls set free and ballads born.
Mon Feb 18 10:20:52 2008
Mike Savva from north London
My friends and I have been coming to the Gower for over 40 years - it's tremendous. Nothing like it anywhere in the world.....
Thu Jan 31 12:44:58 2008
mike collins netherlands 61
My memories of Gower are long summer school holidays cycling with all my friends from Gowerton to Torbay eating sand-filled tomato sandwiches, playing all day on the beach, collecting pop bottles of the now empty beach, back to Penmaen Post Office where our bikes had been left and down to Shepards - money from the pop bottles for that wonderful ice cream.
Thu Dec 27 11:11:16 2007
Jane Holliday from Sheffield, S. Yorks
I lived with my parents 56 years ago on Gower. My dad worked for a Lady Blythswood who left her daughter her estate and then died. Her daughter had to pay death duties and as my dad's job included the house we lived in, we had to leave. I remember glorious summer days on Three Cliffs Bay beach and Oxwich bay. I went to school in Penmaen and spoke Welsh when we left to come up North. My daughter took me to the house where we used to live this summer, and it broke my heart to see how it had changed. Time marches on I know but those memories will never leave me. My parents are both dead now and I don't suppose I will ever manage to get back to the Gower again but at least I had one last look.
Tue Dec 18 10:34:03 2007
Neil of Middlesex, formerly Cork
I reluctantly came on my first visit to Gower in early 1992 with my then new partner - both he and Gower have since become the most important parts of my life - so much so we're moving there early 2008 and can't wait. For me, the worlds bestest ever walk starts at Oxwich Cross, across the fields and up to Penrice Village, through Millwood, onto the King Arthur for a bite of lunch, then over the ridge of Cefn Bryn, down to Three Cliffs and back along the beach. About ten miles in total but I would challenge anyone anywhere to surpass the variety of landscapes in such a small area - it's a place apart.
Mon Dec 17 10:43:51 2007
clive barrett gloucester.
My wife, then girlfriend, took me to the Gower 30 years ago and in particular Caswell. I fell in love with the place, like her, instantly. We have had many family holidays and visit as often as we can - it is like our second home. My children, now grown up, always want to come with us when we say we are going to Gower. I hope they take their children in the future to Gower and make sandcastles as I did with them.
Fri Oct 26 13:24:22 2007
rob darney,swansea/neath
Went down to Langland Bay this evening for a stroll. Brilliant sun, tide out, stunning. Pity the dredgers are taking the sands!
Mon Sep 10 16:10:36 2007
Tracey from Swansea
No words can describe just how beautiful the Gower is especially Caswell, Three Cliffs and Rhossilli Bay. The scenery is breathtaking. My favourite has to be Caswell as I have so many happy childhood memories of long hot sunny days spent playing on the beach and swimming in the sea.
Thu Aug 23 15:34:17 2007
Laura Willaims, Dubai
I was born in Swansea and lived there all my life, until last August when I moved to Dubai for a few years. I always knew Gower was beautiful but when you leave the country for a while you realise just how breathtaking the place is! My favorite as a child has to be Caswell bay! But as I got older Rhossili has to be the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life! I stayed a weekend at the worms head hotel, the best holiday of my life! I can not wait to come home to beautiful Wales again in December!
Mon Jul 30 16:58:54 2007
Simon from Three Crosses
Land of superb contrasts! I agree with all of the other comments especially good childhood memories of Torbay but for me it is the peace and tranquility of North Gower - timeless Welshmoor and the views looking down to Llanrhidian and the marshes - fantastic!
Mon Jul 16 11:28:25 2007
Stef Thomas Swansea Marina
These comments make me so glad I live here, all of Gower is gorgeous especially the secluded parts but you can't beat a pint (or three) at the Kings Head 'Genith and then a good old fashioned camp out in my uncles campsite...
Mon Jan 8 11:24:12 2007
Bethan from Pennard
Three Cliffs for me! Brilliant for riding...xx
Tue Nov 14 08:57:22 2006
Janet, Swansea
I was born in Gower - what could be better? I love Three Cliffs on a cold, dry Christmas Day afternoon as the sun is setting. The achievment of walking and climbing all the way to the end of the Worm can't be beaten - I hope to do it once more - with my camera!
Mon Oct 16 10:54:34 2006
Dani, Monmouth
I did Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's award here (practice + assessment), so I got to walk round 40 miles of it (we did get a bit lost) And my favourite bit was Llanmadoc beach, probably because it meant that we were nearly done... =)
I liked Rhossili beach too, but we were walking along it with backpacks and hiking boots, so it kind of took the magic away...
Mon Sep 18 09:50:17 2006
john fb davies long buckby northants
Wonderful, beautiful Gower coast, and in particular for me CASWELL BAY (South Wales Wireless Training College) where I lived and studied for my Marine Radio Officer's certificate in 1942, soon after to go to sea at 15 1/2 years of age. The morning cadet assembly, the games,the walks on the beautiful beach during those war years were most memorable.
Tue Aug 1 12:26:02 2006
Anna Morgan from Worcestershire
I have fond memories of my Aunty taking me on a precarious route to a secluded beach called Fall Bay. It was always empty but incredibly beautiful.
Thu Jun 8 14:20:04 2006
Yolande Smart Lethbridge AB Canada
The sun going down over Worms Head/Rhossili Bay has to be one of the best sunsets in the world. The view from the top of Rhossili Hill breathtaking. One of my favorite places.
Mon May 15 10:08:56 2006
Simeon, Glasgow
Wales in a Microcosm - upland moorland, salt marsh, river estuary, old woodland, a magnificent coastline - and, to cap it all, the most impressive bay (Rhossili) in the world (as the many foreign visitors used to inform me when they passed through the Youth Hostel I was working at!). Up here is magnificent, but the Gower is magic!
Wed May 10 12:05:11 2006
Paul Palmer, Cheltenham
Congratulations to the Gower for remaining one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. I actually persuaded my girlfriend to spend Millennium eve on Rhossili beach as it was the place I wanted to see the new century in. It was freezing!!! but we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful setting to watch the sun come up in the morning!
Wed May 10 10:12:52 2006
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