Swansea - Any nice bits and which parts to avoid

[jjdarg]

Weekends - it has to be The Gower. Plenty of walking / water sports. Or you can take up flying lessons at Swansea Airport. Or go and watch The Ospreys play rugby, maybe.

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Edit2: All men should ensure that at least once in their lives they experience the sights and sounds of Wind Street on a Wednesday night.

I can second both of those recommendations! The first one: Wind Street aside, Swansea and the Gower are actually good places for a family staycation, and staying in the Marina area isn't too bad for that purpose.

Wind Street on Wednesday is a fascinating...erm...anthropological study, and a place to imbibe a lot of cheap drink.

[worzelGummidge]

There's flats aplenty to rent down near the marina. These are a short walk away from the city centre.

Places to avoid. If you enjoy your heroin then head to Townhill though there's plenty in other areas too (their names escape me sorry ). As a general rule the better the area the closer it is to the seafront though the marina developments I mentioned in my first paragraph have a slightly ghostly quality to them.

In terms of hotels - the dilemma is finding one near the centre that you can park near for free. High end is Morgans. I can't think of any others except for low end B&B's - there are a plethora of them on Oystermouth Road. We are talking circa £18-20. They normally seem to have vans parked outside. It's a twenty minute jaunt on foot into town though there's a decent pub/Thai restaurant near (hasselhoff was a regular there).

Bring a brolly.

Edit: Mumbles isn't my cup of tea. But if you fancy being miles out of town with not too much around then be my guest. They have half a dozen restaurants and a few pubs though it's quite a hike from one end of Mumbles to the other.

Weekends - it has to be The Gower. Plenty of walking / water sports. Or you can take up flying lessons at Swansea Airport. Or go and watch The Ospreys play rugby, maybe.

Do we , errm , have a sale, then?

Edit2: All men should ensure that at least once in their lives they experience the sights and sounds of Wind Street on a Wednesday night.

Yes you have a sale. Thanks for the advice.

[tractor]

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Echo Mimbles and Gower. Plenty to do and see if you are an outdoor type. For the odd days off there is plenty of hill walking being not too far from the Beacons, if you climb there is plenty of scope all along Gower.

[stek]

Wind Street (notice Pron. Wind as in wind-up) is a Japs-eye opener for sure.

If clientco is DVLA say so - anyone who's done a stint there can help, like contractor parking, canteen, onsite gym (not me that one) even a Post Office and ATM, I loved it there and quite liked Swansea especially Uplands. City centre a bit grim but watch out for Tea-cosy Pete.

DVLA is 'up the hill' in Morriston, another grim area with shiit parking.

Taxi's are expensive compared to Leeds (13 quid Town to DVLA!!) but cheap compared to Farnborough, the dearest taxis on earth. There are cheap DLVA work buses too.

And as someone else said it rains a lot.

And traffic light phases seem to me to be really long - ages on red then ages on green. Red light camera on road in city centre - forgot it's name.

[stek]

Tea cosy Pete popped his clogs last week.

Though the air is a bit fresher now.

Really!?

[worzelGummidge]

Your right, it's DVLA
Thanks for the advice. It's on the possible list at the moment.

I live in Bristol so could really drive ( about 1hr 40mins each way), but I don't really do travel very well on a daily basis as it's boring, especially when driving for that length of time.

[stek]

Your right, it's DVLA
Thanks for the advice. It's on the possible list at the moment.

I live in Bristol so could really drive, but I don't really do travel very well on a daily basis as it's boring, especially when driving.

SC needed?

[worzelGummidge]

SC needed?

Not sure. No one has mentioned it.
If required and I have to go through the process again then not fussed either way really.

[stek]

I needed it when I was there, via Fujitsu..

[worzelGummidge]

I needed it when I was there, via Fujitsu..

OK thanks.
Sounds like I may need to be put through clearance again then. Funny that no one has mentioned it.
Maybe they are thinking of putting me somewhere else first if the gig kicks off.