Free Wales!

Tenby: open for tourism again

It’s always been good to live in Wales but the pleasure is much greater today with the news that we have suddenly become the ‘freest’ nation in the UK.

First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced the lifting tomorrow of a whole raft of restrictions imposed months ago. 

The miserable winter is over. Spring is here.There is something for most of us, with the most welcome move, the scrapping of stay home. We can now roam, take holidays in hotels or campsites, anywhere in Wales. 

We are the first country to open up our borders and very soon we will welcome a rush of holiday makers from around the UK when they follow our lead. Robert and family have booked a week in Tenby in July. No doubt they will call in to see me as they pass Cardiff.

Other new freedoms allow six people from two households to meet outdoors, sports for under 18s outdoors, reopening libraries - that reminds me, I have three books to return to Penylan library as soon as I can scooter out -  some historic attractions and gardens.

We will have to wait a little longer to go to a pub and shop other than at supermarkets but the mood is more optimistic than for months. The number of cases is down drastically and the First Minister said the health position made ‘headroom for changes’.

He did not agree to setting dates, he said, as they could not be guaranteed and it was safer to play it stage by stage, depending on progress made.

I am delighted with the news as it means that Robert will be able to come to Sunrise - actually into Sunrise - to chat in my room for the first time for months.

Well done Mr Drakeford. Well done, Wales.