An Update on the Sunday October 10th Rail Awayday to the Gower

21 people have signed up to go to the Gower by train and bus.
Maximum numbers are 21 so please let us know very soon if you want to cancel your ticket – someone else m a y be able to take it. If you have not booked, plese contact David Bruce in case of cancellations.
If you have booked but not yet paid please put a cheque though the door in St Helena Rd.

We shall meet at Bristol Parkway Station at 10 am

and get back at 8.30 pm.

In Gower there is a pub/hotel at Oxwich Bay for lunch and good options for non-walkers, who will be dropped off at the lunch place.If you are NOT proposing to have lunch at hotel (bar food, vegetarian and/ or more substantial food all available), please let us know so that we can confirm numbers with hotel.

The walk itself will start for a short appetizer before lunch and afterwards we shall go along the beach to Three Cliffs Bay. There is expected to be a low spring tide in the afternoon so we should not have to climb headlands at all (but wait and see). Non-walkers will be picked up by the bus at Oxwich hotel at 5.40 pm, walkers at Parkmill fifteen minutes later, all to catch train home at Swansea station at 6.51 pm.

This was a brilliant September day and Strollers both on foot and on bike(can you stroll by bike?)converged on this deeply rural privately owned coal mine for a guided tour (above) and tea and cakes. Pictured left is the deep mine shaft, once bricked up at the request of the police to deter use as a convenient dropping off point for disposing of bodies, we learned,and now reopened and the subject of a strangely hypnotic video.