Tenby Life

Whilst walking to work one morning I started thinking how lucky I am to live and work in Tenby. After leaving my home I walk across the road and can see the immaculate Gilroy Phillips Gardens. The flowers and plants always look their best, especially the palm trees that give the garden a tropical look and feel. I then follow the town wall down to the Belmont Arch and get a glimpse of Tenby’s South Beach. Gorgeous, whatever the weather! Just a few more steps and there it is, St Catherine’s Island and Paragon Beach. Absolutely stunning! All I can hear are the waves lapping on the sand. Mind you on a windy day the waves thunder up the beach and smash into the rocks and you are blown back two steps for every three you take. My journey then takes me along winding Cob Lane with its quaint little cottages, I then turn the corner and there it is, FBM Holidays, my workplace and Pembrokeshire’s leading self-catering agency. Yesterday Tenby was wild. The wind was blowing at gale force and looking out of the window of FBM Holidays you could just make out the outline of Caldey Island. Huge waves were smashing into and covering Giltar point. Very scary but a magnificent sight. I tried to walk from the FBM Holidays offices, just a couple of hundred yards up to Tudor Square for our sandwiches and cakes and managed only about fifty yards before I was buffeted back and couldn’t walk forward at all. Thought it was better that I go back to the office and I was blown back down the road just managing to grab the handle of the door to FBM before I was whisked all the way down to the harbour. Don’t worry we didn’t starve, Gizelle drove me the two hundred yards in the company car. All was well. The weather calmed a bit later that afternoon and believe it or not from our window at FBM we could see surfers taking advantage of the massive waves rolling onto the South Beach, either very brave or stupid. A good friend of mine, Ann Purchase, who sadly is no longer with us, lived on Caldey Isand and told me that several times during the winter period she would get the boat from Caldey to Tenby in the morning to go shopping, and because the weather can change so quickly, the return boat would be cancelled and she wouldn’t return home for several days. Now that’s what I call a shopping trip. Tenby is a different town today. Blue skies and just a light breeze, people strolling around, walking their dogs and taking in the breathtaking views. Normal life has returned to Tenby. Just a quick mention of Tenby Blues Festival, which was on the weekend of the 9th, 10th and 11th of November. Tenby was very busy and the atmosphere was brilliant. Lots of happy people drifting from bar to bar listening to different bands, singers and guitarists, during the day on Saturday, Dales Music Shop was playing blues music into the street, again, this created a lovely atmosphere and the weather was kind. Well done to all the sponsors (especially FBM Holidays), organisers and artistes. Gold Star. So, if your planning on coming to Tenby for next years Blues Festival or whatever reason you are visiting Pembrokeshire make sure you book your self-catering holiday accommodation with FBM Holidays. Simply the best.