{"id":253,"date":"2008-10-27T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-10-27T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T19:50:41","slug":"travelogue-pembrokeshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/27\/travelogue-pembrokeshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Pembrokeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The south of Wales seems a little less wild than the north.\u00a0 We explored St. David’s peninsula, beginning with Pembroke in the north and then St. David’s, Britain’s smallest town, in the south.<\/p>\n

Pembroke Castle<\/a> is known as the birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty.\u00a0 Of all the castles we visited, it is the most re<\/a>stored with floors in the towers that can be reached by the winding stone stairs.\u00a0 There were extensive exhibits on both the history of the castle as well as England itself.<\/p>\n

From Pembroke, we headed north to St. David’s to visit the cathedral and the ruins of the bishop’s palace next door.\u00a0 Our drive took us along St. Bride’s Bay and we stopped at Solva<\/a> for lunch.<\/p>\n

The cathedral<\/a> is lovely.\u00a0 It is built on the site of a monastery originally built in the 6th century.\u00a0 Tradition says that St. David was born in the to<\/a>wn in 5oo AD. \u00a0 The cathedral became a popular pilgrimage site during the middle ages.\u00a0 Throughout its long history, it has been attacked by Vikings, nearly destroyed during the Reformation and almost abandoned in the 20th century.\u00a0 We wandered through its chapels, appreciating the tombs of nobles and knights as well as its treasury of church relics.<\/p>\n

Behind the cathedral are the ruins of the bishop’s palace.\u00a0 Built by Bishop Gower in the 13th century, you can see the remains of large rooms and imagine how it must have looked when the bishop lived there.\u00a0 It is quite picturesque and well sign posted.<\/p>\n

We went into the tiny town of St. David’s and had tea at The Sampler Tea House. We haven’t had official tea yet so this was a nice way to end the day.\u00a0 There was a warm fire in the cozy shop, which featured embroidered samplers, and we ate cucumber sandwiches, scones, and Bara Brith, traditional Welsh fruit cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The south of Wales seems a little less wild than the north.\u00a0 We explored St. David’s peninsula, beginning with Pembroke in the north and then St. David’s, Britain’s smallest town, in the south. Pembroke Castle is known as the birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty.\u00a0 Of all the castles we visited, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}