John Fish B.Sc.
Publishers of Tenby in Wales (UK)TENBY PORTAL PAGES
Naples of Wales
They were now standing on top of the Castle Hill. Binns rubbed
the palm of her hand against the grey limestone of the twelfth century Norman
keep: "I love history and as soon as we arrived here I somehow felt as if I'd
come home. It's all here, the history of mankind from the beginning of the Stone
Age right through to the Alien Age of the twenty-first century. That white
marble statue is of Prince Albert who was Queen Victoria's husband and there's
always a seagull standing on his head! It's said that some nights on a full Moon
when Saint Mary's Church clock strikes midnight in the dead of winter he climbs
down and walks around the mediaeval streets inside the town walls. Do you
believe that?" "You seem to know a lot about it." "Tenby Town Council has a web site on the Internet and the
Tenby Observer newspaper publishes a complimentary tourist guide. That's the
town's Museum and Art Gallery, and that's the Lifeboat Station. The lifeboat is
called the RFA Sir Galahad after a British ship which was sunk in the Falkland's
War. I'd love to be in the lifeboat when she goes down the slipway after the two
maroons have been fired. You see how all the buildings of the old town are all
higgledy-piggledy? That's why Tenby's called the
"I love to just close my eyes and listen to the sea ... it's always different yet always the same. The other night there was a storm and I'd taken this guy I met back to my room, it was really erotic making love with the waves smashing rhythmically against the cliffs, just listen to the sea ..."
"And the seagulls!"
"The seagulls, yes, this morning I fed them with some bread from the kitchen that the chef gave me. I stood on the Paragon and the tide was in, and all around me were flying hundreds of seagulls, and when I threw a piece of bread always one of them would catch it."
The Sun was setting behind Tenby town now and in the late May of early summer the prevailing south-westerly wind was decidedly chilly. Either that or the sight of Carter walking along the pathway below them, around the bandstand and then down the steps which led onto the Castle Sands at the far end of the South Beach which with the bluish turquoise tide out, stretched well over a golden mile to the bluff grey green-topped headland of Proud Giltar: the Sunset deepening its reddish glow and so promising a fine day tomorrow.
Extract from Preseli Bluestones by Sion Pysgod
Published at Tenby in the Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park (Wales, UK)
As a Star of Pembrokeshire Series Paperback