Time out in Tenby

MUST admit, I really, really like Pembrokeshire. Hardly surprising. It’s perfectly pretty and quieter than your average holiday hotspot and everyone seems to be really, really friendly.

- STAN CULLIMORE

So when a friend told me the Imperial Hotel Tenby has just been refurbished and refitted at great expense, making it brighter eyed and more bushy tailed than a baby red squirrel, Mrs Cullimore and I immediately booked ourselves in for a couple of nights. In a room with a sea view, obviously. We then set off to see how the new and improved place was getting along. (Spoiler alert - it’s getting along really, really well.)

Getting there was easy. Just head west on the M4 until it runs out of steam, then continue on an assortment of delightfully curvy roads with views that just get better with every passing mile.

Tenby has everything you could possibly hope for in a cute, seaside, holiday destination. Soft sandy beaches, a picture perfect harbour filled with boats bobbing up and down, brightly coloured houses lining the cliffs and plenty of winding cobbled streets bursting with independent shops and bijou boutiques, as well as a generous assortment of pubs, bars and cafes. If all of that wasn’t enough beauty to fill a boatload of buckets, there is also an ancient city wall dating from the 13th century encircling the old town, making it all look more cutesy than a rainbow full of unicorns.