Hill View Glamping

Craving culture? Head to the market town of Carmarthen (a 15-minute drive away) for the ruins of a castle – one of 600 still left in the country – and a county museum exhibiting national art. Follow up such educational endeavours with a ride past fields and woodland-covered scenery while skirting the River Gwili on the vintage steam trains that leave from town. Or journey to the coast instead: poet Dylan Thomas’s former home and writing shed is in Laugharne, a 20-minute drive away, with stonking views across the estuary leading to Carmarthen Bay. The writer’s birthplace is 50 minutes’ drive away in Swansea, along with the industrial-themed National Waterfront Museum (free entry – bargain) and the city’s sweeping bay with its tidal lagoon. To spend days at the seaside nearer the site, Pendine Sands is half an hour’s drive away – potter to the pub while you’re here for the displays that celebrate the world’s first land-speed record being achieved on the beach in 1924.