WINTER BEACHES

THERE’S NOTHING LIKE WANDERING BY POUNDING SEA BREAKERS AND SITTING ON A WINDSWEPT CLIFFTOP TO BLOW AWAY THE COBWEBS. AFTERWARDS, HUNKER DOWN IN A PUB FOR A WELL-EARNED PINT

Words: CLARE GOGERTY

The door to the Surfside Café at Caswell Bay on the Gower Peninsula bangs open as a woman with a sand-encrusted lurcher comes in. A shock of cold air and the whistle of the wind enters with her. The rest of us look up from our mugs of hot chocolate and toasted sandwiches. She is the latest walker to bowl in, hair blown by sea air, cheeks pink and eyes bright, exhilarated by her winter’s stroll by the sea. The café, packed with surfers and swimmers in the summer months, becomes a friendly and welcome pit-stop for dog walkers and ramblers in the winter. An ideal place then to end a February morning spent walking along Gower’s deserted beaches. So few people visit the British seaside in winter that it feels like…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2016 - Issue 44

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