{"id":162399,"date":"2025-06-06T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162399\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:09","slug":"west-wales-guide-why-you-should-visit-this-coastal-gem-over-devon-and-cornwall-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162399\/","title":{"rendered":"West Wales guide: why you should visit this coastal gem over Devon and Cornwall this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Pembroke for Carmarthen, there\u2019s also Laugharne \u2013 a town that Dylan Thomas, who lived there, described as \u201ca timeless, mild, beguiling island\u201d. Situated at the point where the River Taf flows into Carmarthen Bay, it\u2019s packed with typical Welsh slate-roofed buildings, and the food here is also surprisingly great. Dexter\u2019s at Browns is a prestigious farm to fork steakhouse, with cattle sourced from their own herd on Llwyn Farm (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/browns.wales\/food-drink\/dextersatbrowns\/\">browns.wales<\/a>), while the Castle Fish Bar serves cockles straight from the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaving Pembroke for Carmarthen, there\u2019s also Laugharne \u2013 a town that Dylan Thomas, who lived there, described as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[21470,748,5023,4884,1149,16,15,1764,68341],"class_list":{"0":"post-162399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-beaches","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cornwall","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-pembrokeshire","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales","16":"tag-wales-hotels"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114635330282877780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}