On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:30:10 +0000 (UTC), Gavin Wheeler
wrote:

~On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:28:51 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:
~
~I hope to goodness it's still open in January as I would like to go
~again.
~
~There's a good chance that the site will remain in one form or another
~even if the Trust gets liquidated, as a lot of the value there is in
~the plants and design of the garden. But if it goes into liquidation
~or has to be closed to the public in the initial stages of
~administration, you may be out of luck in January.
~
~I don't suppose I can convince you that this Friday about 6pm to 7pm
~would be a good time for you and your friend in Swansea to visit? ;Þ

Unfortunately not. I'm a little far away (near London) and a little
too prebooked! Would love to, if I didn't have guests...

~
~Can you believe that? They set up something like this and the local
~councils don't connect it to the rail network etc?
~
~
~Rail would be tricky, as you would have to liaise with Railtrack, buy
~land to lay the tracks, get planning permissionand so on.

I was thinking shuttle minibuses from the nearest station, maybe once
an hour round trip, dropping to bi-hourly in winter. They should have
done that...

~But wouldn't it be lovely to have a bus service linking Swansea,
~Middleton, Aberglasney and Carmarthen? I haven't looked at a map in
~detail to see if that route would work, but there are other lovely
~gardens in the area. I've totally blocked on the names of the two
~gardens in Swansea, for example.

That would also be good, though if it is a multi-destination thing,
it'd take hours.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!