CARDIFF — I left St Clears with the windscreen wipers going but it wasn’t long before the sun came out. My first stop was at Burry Port as this was where my grandmother’s brother had once lived. I managed to find the street and the house without too much trouble but finding a park was another matter.

Later I went down to Burry Port’s harbour, which seems to be the sole preserve of pleasure craft, and discovered that Burry Port was where Amelia Earhart came ashore from a seaplane after crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.

Leaving Burry Port I passed through Llanelli before joining the motorway for a short distance to quickly pass through the built-up area around Swansea and Neath. My next stop was at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, a park set aside for its conservation value. They also have a reconstructed medieval village within the park which, like yesterday’s iron-age fort, was built over the original foundations. This time it was just me, and some geese, ducks, and chickens.

I managed to get on the right road to my hotel, went left at the large roundabout, right at the small roundabout but then missed the first slip road that I was supposed to take. Luckily I had a Google map that I had printed before leaving home that showed more detail than the road atlas and I managed to arrive at the hotel without further trouble.

I walked into town to grab something to eat and stumbled across St David’s—a brand new shopping centre covering a third of Cardiff’s city centre. It had opened today.