John McMillan wrote:
In article , "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

Don't neglect the architecturally stunning glasshouse at the new
National Botanic Garden of Wales near Carmarthen: they run it as a
Mediterranean habitat, not a tropical one, and it's full of good
Australian etc stuff. They need all the support they can get, too,
not having had all the publicity bovril lavished on "Eden" and
others.

Went there on Easter Sunday. Its stunning.
It was threatened financially last year, but I hope it survives.
Being built away from large centres of population in an area that
doesn't get that much tourism means that their audience figures are
inevitably poor. They do indeed need all the support they can
get.

Strange, isn't it, that West Wales doesn't feature as strongly as
Cornwall on the holiday map? The weather's the same, the beaches as
good, the fishing a thousand times better, riddled with castles,
plenty of stuff for children -- horrifying roller-coaster at Oakwood
Park, Folly Farm for fun real-fake farm visit, chocolate factory,
great mountain-biking courses, silly trains, etc etc -- far less
crowded, no traffic nightmares, and far less tat. Really nice people,
too.

--
Mike.