Welsh Country March-April 2017
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AGame of Chess<br />
Easter holidays. Unlike many of those in<br />
past years, this one has been wet and<br />
windy and somewhat colder, making up<br />
for the mild, damp winter we’ve just had.<br />
Still, in typically British fashion, we have watched<br />
and waited, and now a gap in the weather sees us<br />
out and about at last.<br />
Framing the energy of a bored nine year old<br />
daughter is difficult at the best of times, even<br />
without the weather to contend with, so a stroll<br />
along Porthcawl seafront and an ice-cream are the<br />
order of the day.<br />
Hunkered in against the wind, we make our way to<br />
Coney Beach where I buy our refreshments – a double<br />
scoop of bubble gum ice cream for Elle and a hot<br />
chocolate for Rachel and I. We find a seat behind the<br />
cabin where I bought them, seats overlooking the<br />
beach but also affording us a view back toward the<br />
fairground.<br />
Even the British climate can’t deter the hardiest<br />
holidaymakers, and there are plenty of new<br />
accents – predominantly northern – bubbling up<br />
from the trickle of people from nearby Trecco<br />
Bay Caravan Park. Strangely oxymoronic, their<br />
slang and verbal twangs play such an unfamiliar<br />
tune and yet they seem so much a part of this<br />
place. Such is the lot of the tourist town, I<br />
suppose.<br />
20 Mar-Apr 17