Forget the car ...

When we used to drive down to the cottage for the weekend, what we loved to do was park outside, and know that we didn't need to use the car until it was time to go home (unless we wanted to).

You can stroll up to Station Road (Burry Port's 'High Street') and call in the Co-op for a few provisions and a newspaper, and then pop into Jenkins the bakers (next door but one) and buy a loaf - I can recommend the pasties and (if there are any left) a fruit bakestone!

In between the two is Mr Jones the butcher, and you might want to buy something for the barbecue.  [You may have heard that the Welsh can sing - Mr Jones' son (John Owen-Jones) is the current Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.]

Then a gentle stroll back to the cottage, and choose one of the three bridges that cross the railway line - I like the 'Hornby Dublo' one on the platform itself.

After a cuppa and a slice of bakestone (with butter and jam), hopefully sitting in the courtyard garden (which can be a real suntrap), it could be nice to amble down to the harbour and see if the tide is in.