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swanseaindoormarket.co.uk; swan.ac.uk; Mumbles Rd,
1 Swansea Oxford St; h8am-5.30pm Sketty; h10am-4pm Tue-Sat)
Although it’s not the Mon-Sat), then dive into at Swansea University.
most immediately at- the whizz-bang National 4 p289
tractive place, Wales’ Waterfront Museum
second biggest city has (%0300 111 2333; www.muse The Drive » Broad
its own workaday charm umwales.ac.uk; South Dock Ma- Oystermouth Rd traces the edge
of Swansea Bay, changing its
and an enviable setting rina, Oystermouth Rd; h10am- name to Mumbles Rd halfway
on 5-mile-long, sandy, 5pm) and the charmingly along. It’s only 4 miles from
Swansea Bay. An active old-fashioned Swansea central Swansea to the heart of
Museum (%01792-653763;
bar scene is enthusiasti- the Mumbles strip.
cally supported by a large www.swanseamuseum.co.uk;
student population, while Victoria Rd; h10am-5pm
a new brace of afford- Tue-Sun). Fans of Welsh 2 The Mumbles
able ethnic eateries has poet Dylan Thomas Swansea’s swanky seaside
can tour his birthplace
improved the city’s once suburb sprawls along the
drab dining options no (%01792-472555; www. western curve of Swansea
end. dylanthomasbirthplace.com; Bay and terminates in
Fuel up on Welsh cakes 5 Cwmdonkin Dr, Uplands; the pair of rounded hills
hot off the griddle at adult/child £8/6; htours which may have gifted GREAT BRITAIN21 WEST WALES: SWANSEA TO ST DAvIDS
11am, 1pm & 3pm), explore
Swansea Market (www. the area its unusual name
his legacy at the Dylan (from the French Les
Thomas Centre (%01792-
463980; www.dylanthomas. Mamelles – ‘the breasts’).
Oystermouth Castle
com; Somerset Pl; h10am-
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Theatre (%01792-473238;
www.dylanthomastheatre.org. h11am-5pm Easter-Sep) is
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uk; Gloucester Pl), where
he once trod the boards, Norman fortress standing
and visit some of the guard over the fashion-
able Newton Rd bar and
many pubs he famously
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