Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Tenby too

It is quite cheap to park in Tenby but expensive to spend a penny.

Tenby harbour

And its adjacent North Beach.
And this is where the confusion started. If Tenby is on the south coast of Wales how can there be a north beach, especially to the left?

So you'd think the beach your boat leaves from would be the South Beach, but no, it's Castle Beach.
Anyway, strange coincidence. I heard a programme on the radio last week about Mary Anne Evans, and what do I spot in Tenby but a blue plaque commemorating the fact that Mary Anne Evans was staying there when she was inspired to write her first novel in 1857. 

I should add that she was living in sin - shock horror - with George Lewes, who encouraged her to write, and who sent her first manuscript to his own publisher, who realised he was dealing with a great talent, whom he came to know as George Eliot.



3 comments:

jabblog said...

Tenby is clearly the place to go to for literary recognition!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

40p to pee? OUTRAGEOUS! And I don't even know how much 40p is worth.

Liz Hinds said...

Yes, Janice, apparently there are several more blue literary plaques that I missed.
Even the men had to pay 40p, Debra, and they usually get away with it.