Stunning Pictures of Cymru Wales

[teuchter]

It is always going to be a subjective matter. But if you have seen nothing in some of the photos that have been posted in this thread that could persuade you of the incredible beauty of some of Wales' coastal scenery, then I suspect you're unpersuadable, and probably best left to your curmudgeonly ways

I'm not questioning that there is some nice coastline, just the naive belief that any of it is "world class".

In any case none of the photos show anything that can't be matched or bettered in other parts of the UK.

 

[existentialist]

I'm not questioning that there is some nice coastline, just the naive belief that any of it is "world class".

In any case none of the photos show anything that can't be matched or bettered in other parts of the UK.

In your subjective opinion.

I really can't see why it matters so much to you - if people want to believe that a particular part of the world is beautiful enough to be "world class", then why the fuck shouldn't they? Do you have to grumpycat your way all over anything someone says that isn't verifiable by some kind of formula?

Anyway, these words are interrupting the flow of world class pictures. That's all I have to say on the matter.

 

[teuchter]

In your subjective opinion.

I really can't see why it matters so much to you - if people want to believe that a particular part of the world is beautiful enough to be "world class", then why the fuck shouldn't they? Do you have to grumpycat your way all over anything someone says that isn't verifiable by some kind of formula?

Anyway, these words are interrupting the flow of world class pictures. That's all I have to say on the matter.

This is urban75, where there is a long established tradition of challenging people who make preposterous claims. Facebook is that way >>

 

[bendeus]

bless

Would National Geographic be a good start, Mr Sneery?

http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/article.asp?PageId=3&ArticleId=606

Or how about Tripadvisor

http://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-Beaches-cDestinations-g1

Or Travel Magazine

http://www.thetravelmagazine.net/i-941--most-beautiful-beach-in-britain.html

*thumbs teeth*

 

[teuchter]

Re. the national geographic thing, you're confusing excellency as a visitor destination with the question of whether the landscape itself is remarkable on a level that justifies the description "world class".

And the other two links are about beaches, not coastal landscapes.

 

[existentialist]

This is urban75, where there is a long established tradition of challenging people who make preposterous claims. Facebook is that way >>

You're not "challenging" - just being gratuitously rude on a hitherto pleasant and happy thread - and just because you don't agree with a claim it doesn't mean it's "preposterous". So maybe you need to take your snobbish sneering ----> somewhere else, instead?

 

[bendeus]

Re. the national geographic thing, you're confusing excellency as a visitor destination with the question of whether the landscape itself is remarkable on a level that justifies the description "world class".

I'm confusing a fairly holistic set of criteria by which a coastline is judged against other coastlines worldwide with whether a coastline can be judged as being 'world class'. Ok.

And the other two links are about beaches, not coastal landscapes.

And the Urban pedantry award for 2013 goes to........

 

[existentialist]

I'm confusing a fairly holistic set of criteria by which a coastline is judged against other coastlines worldwide with whether a coastline can be judged as being 'world class'. Ok.



And the Urban pedantry award for 2013 goes to........

Well, quite. I could have sworn I heard the sound of a hair being split there. Miserably and sour-facedly.

 

[Spymaster]

I'm not questioning that there is some nice coastline, just the naive belief that any of it is "world class".

In any case none of the photos show anything that can't be matched or bettered in other parts of the UK.

Stop being such a wanker, eh?

 

[existentialist]

Barafundle beach, voted top picnic beach destination in the UK a few years ago. Thoroughly deservedly.

 

[Spymaster]

Barafundle beach, voted top picnic beach destination in the UK a few years ago. Thoroughly deservedly.

World class if you ask me.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I don't think it's ever been really warm for me when I've gone to N Wales. Except the day that we decided to climb on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. Then I could see the rest of Wales was lovely whilst we were freezing our tits off.

 

[teuchter]

I'm confusing a fairly holistic set of criteria by which a coastline is judged against other coastlines worldwide with whether a coastline can be judged as being 'world class'. Ok.

You referred to a "world class seascape". I don't see why it's difficult to understand the difference between that and an area which is highly rated as a tourist destination. These are the comments highlighted from the National Geographic voters -

"very mature and established tourism industry"

• “Fabulous example of coastal protection with a very established tourism industry.”
• “Magnificent protected coastline from both ecological and geological perspectives.”
• “The seafood and food grown in the adjoining fields are culinary treats."
• “Land-based and marine-based conservation tourism appeals to all ages.”

These comments are focussing on the strength of the area's tourism infrastructure and conservation measures, not the uniqueness or international significance of the undoubtedly pleasant seascape itself.

Well done to Pembrokeshire for looking after its coastline so well, and indeed for achieving excellence in terms of picnic locations. But if we look at this sensibly, the seascape itself is not especially remarkable in a world or even UK context.

 

[Spymaster]

You really are a boring, unpleasant, cunt, teuchter.

 

[existentialist]

You really are a boring, unpleasant, cunt, teuchter.

You forgot "patronising". HTH.

 

[wiskey]

Well this thread had all gone a bit off track ... pity, I was enjoying the stunning coastlines.

 

[nogojones]

And the other two links are about beaches, not coastal landscapes.

 

[Spymaster]

You forgot "patronising". HTH.

I don't think he's being particularly patronising. He's just being a prick.

 

[teuchter]

You really are a boring, unpleasant, cunt, teuchter.

Aren't you the one who claims to be a travel agent or something?

 

[Spymaster]

No.

 

[teuchter]

No.

Ah. Then your lack of useful or informed input to this discussion is less alarming.

 

[scifisam]

Marloes Sands, Pembrokeshire:

And Little Haven, Pembrokeshire:

 

[Tankus]

Heh ...arguments over landscape's........!!... There's tidy for you....!
Each to their own.

For me the joy of my local stretch is the solitude......out of the summer months and its weather ......I love to watch the fronts run up the channel , particularly when there are pulses of rain over the moors across the channel and I'm in sunshine. .....Have to dig them out laters....!

 

[BoatieBird]

less arguing and more pictures of lovely Wales please

We went to Anglesey for the first time last weekend and we'll definitely be going back

 

[existentialist]

Ah. Then your lack of useful or informed input to this discussion is less alarming.

If you are alarmed by any aspect of this, er, "discussion", then I would venture that you are taking it all far too seriously!

 

[scifisam]

I'd been to North- and Mid-Wales several times and really didn't expect Pembrokeshire to be so amazingly beautiful. Beaches so unspoilt we found fossils and flint arrowheads under the Ordovician rockfaces. The whole coast is a National Park, but I suppose that means nothing.

 

[existentialist]

Quite a lot of my photographs are of Pembroke Castle, because that's usually where I find myself walking by, with a camera (or phone) handy.

This one was taken about November last year, at dawn.

 

[existentialist]

And this one was taken in early December - sunset over Newgale beach (or as we call it, a littoral transitional feature ) Not a beautifully framed shot - I more or less stuck the car up a bank, leaped out, and grabbed a couple of snaps. It was the clouds that grabbed my attention.

 

[existentialist]

And, since this thread is entitled "Stunning" photos (rather than, say, "Beautiful"), here's one of the new power station, taken from the north end of the Cleddau Bridge. My attention was grabbed by the columns of vapour that seemed to connect the chimneys to the sky, and the lowering clouds in the background. Hidden by the land in the foreground is the Valero refinery, and just around to the right of shot is where the LNG plant is. Through this harbour passes 25% of the UK's energy supplies.

 

[bendeus]

You referred to a "world class seascape". I don't see why it's difficult to understand the difference between that and an area which is highly rated as a tourist destination. These are the comments highlighted from the National Geographic voters -

"very mature and established tourism industry"

• “Fabulous example of coastal protection with a very established tourism industry.”
• “Magnificent protected coastline from both ecological and geological perspectives.”
• “The seafood and food grown in the adjoining fields are culinary treats."
• “Land-based and marine-based conservation tourism appeals to all ages.”

These comments are focussing on the strength of the area's tourism infrastructure and conservation measures, not the uniqueness or international significance of the undoubtedly pleasant seascape itself.

Well done to Pembrokeshire for looking after its coastline so well, and indeed for achieving excellence in terms of picnic locations. But if we look at this sensibly, the seascape itself is not especially remarkable in a world or even UK context.

Yes, and you've obviously glossed over the 'magnificent' in the 'magnificent protected coastline' bullet. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path being voted in the top three walks in the world is, of course, due to its wonderful linking up of local seafood restaurants rather than its traversing of what is otherwise a bland and rather uninspiring coastline. You're coming across as something of a plum, you know, not least in your refusal to acknowledge that which you've seen 'a bit of' and have no other faculty to judge by.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...onoured-alongside-Inca-Trail-Kilimanjaro.html