Our accommodation at Porthcawl or at Ty Gwyneth in the tiny hamlet of Ffordd y Gyfraith near Bridgend each provide an ideal base for exploring South Wales. The area has a rich mix of agricultural and industrial heritage, as well as great beaches, castles, wonderful country parks and glorious hill walking. The big advantage is that you can so easily be free of the constraints of modern life and yet be little more than an hour from the motorway and all the advantages of twenty first century life.

There are four golf courses within a few minutes drive of 2 Northways, Porthcawl. You can surf at any number of beaches.

There are country parks just fifteen or twenty minutes away from both properties – at Margam Park and at Bryngarw. Kenfig Nature Reserve, just ten minutes from either, is a site of European Special Scientific Interest. You can ride or walk along 1,500 acres of dunes, which run down to Sker Beach between Porthcawl and Port Talbot.

Then there are the mining valleys and other legacies of the area’s rich industrial heritage – all within a short drive. The Big Pit National Mining Museum is just over an hour away.
Carmarthen is an hour away, Laugharne and the Boathouse where Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood is just an hour and a half. Pembrokeshire, with its theme park, Oakwood, is two hours. You can even take a ferry across to Ireland ………..