Pembrokeshire Coastal Path Day 4

Hundleton to Milford Haven
Distance 15 miles
Ascent 360m
Weather overcast, drizzle in afternoon
Buzzards 2
Cow licks narrowly avoided 1
Blisters 2 (one of them is apparently very strange, however I've not looked)
Aching things: legs, feet, ankles, back
Pigs on a pedestals 2
Tall bridges 2
See-through bridges 2

A short walk along a lane took us back to the Coastal Path and then we were on woodland paths most of the way into Monkton Priory and then Pembroke. We didn't see much of the town itself, just walked around the castle's moat, and then through some new looking housing estates out into fields. We were accompanied by some friendly cows across their field, then we left quickly when they tried to lick us.

The day was warm and humid. The route was mostly flat but there was quite a lot of pavement walking through towns, along busy straight roads and over bridges. Cleddau Bridge is a toll bridge but free for pedestrians. A scenic picnic site overlooked the inlet but the road seemed too busy to cross easily so we went on and had lunch in Neyland.

The path goes along the side of the estuary in Lladstadwell passing an array of cottages on one side, some pretty but all different and interesting.

Further on, we skirted the edge of another oil refinery, this one more like we'd expected yesterday's to be, heathy scrubland and tall fences. Where we had to cross pipelines and roads they'd put in metal gantry style bridges. It had started drizzling by now and the tall grass (and nettles) had become wet, much to the disgust of a couple of walkers we passed coming the other way.

Wet trousers later, we emerged on to a busy road. The map had us going along the road a while but there were national trail acorn signs pointing along a farm track, ao we followed them. This kept us off the road but led us passed killer bees, muddy tidal gunk, overgrown wet plants and unfriendly signs. So much for eco escapes.

We rejoined our mapped route and crossed the bridge into Milford Haven and arrived at the Lord Nelson Hotel. It was quite early so we've given our socks a good soak.