I currently live near Swansea, Wales, UK. Swansea was the home of Dylan Thomas and was described by him as 'an ugly lovely town'. During the Second World War the centre of the city was devestated by enemy action. Consequently, it has been rebuilt in a modern style and this has continued over the last few decades. It offers all the amenities of a large city and is a thriving commercial centre. It has a population of around 200,000 inhabitants. It is served by good communications both in terms of the M4 motorway and rail links.

The former docklands have been transformed by the development of the Martime Quarter. This area is also an integral part of the City. There are shops, restaurants and a maritime museum alongside an attractive marina and imaginative develpments. A footpath and cycle track along the seafront links the Maritime Quarter with the Mumbles, five miles along the sweeping Swansea Bay.

We moved to Swansea late 1965 from London and have found life here very pleasant. Until the 5th. September 1997 I lived with my wife, my wife's Mum and one long haired cat called Sam in one of the small Gower villages just west of Swansea. However, I moved out of the family home on the 6th and now live in a new two bedroomed flat about three miles away. We are still very good friends and see each other several times each week but we both felt it necessary to allow ourselves time to re-adjust our lives. Our only child, a daughter, married May, 1997 and lives and works in Buckinghamshire.

I work at the University of Wales Swansea and have an office overlooking the magnificent Swansea Bay.

Gower is one of the first designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the UK. It's a peninsula of about seventeen miles long and three miles wide which protrudes into the Bristol Channel. It tends to be a domitory area of Swansea although a number of farms are dotted throughout. Gower's south coast is a succession of broad bays, in particular, Three Cliffs Bay, Oxwich Bay and Rhossilli. and less accessible sheltered sandy coves divided by rugged limstone cliffs. At the very tip of Gower we have the majestic Worm's Head which is accessible at low tide and is one of the most spectacular headlands on the coast of the UK. Gower is an ideal recreational area too. There are many bays suitable for a variety of water sports. The cliffs offer wide scope for rock climbing, caving and hang gliding. For the less energetic,the area is well suited for rambling or horse riding.

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