While (as I noted recently) we've quite enjoyed exploring our immediate vicinity over the last year or so, albeit out of necessity than choice, it's been a great relief to be able to escape the confines of both the house and Cardiff on a few occasions. We were particularly fortunate to get away in the small window between lockdowns towards the tail end of last year - all the more so because it involved three nights in a cottage in the woods, right by the beach on the Gower.
As this Guardian article by Steven Morris makes clear, however, the most remarkable thing about Cwm Ivy is not the woodland or the beach or the nearby cliffside caves, but the storm-damaged sea wall, which the National Trust controversially decided not to rebuild, thereby turning the low-lying arable land that it protected into salt marsh. Walking along the tree-lined track and then across the wall in the chilly November dusk to watch the tide flooding through the gap and across the fields towards the dead skeletal trees - well, it was quite special, especially after being cooped up in the city for so long.
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