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Elis James, comedian.

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Born in Wales, lives in England.

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Miles Jupp, comedian.

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Born in England, lives in Wales.

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These are our journeys across Wales by land, sea and rail.

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HORN BLOWS

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So, you've moved to Wales...

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-That is right.

-You've been on holidays here.

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I've spent a lot of time here. But I'm hungry.

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You know, I want to know more. I want to see more.

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-I want to feel more.

-Well, guess who your ideal guide is.

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Well, my ideal guide would be Rhod Gilbert.

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Yes, he's unavailable. Guess who's available?

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Stop. We made a terrible mistake.

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That is not what nature is for.

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It's a classic 1-2 combination.

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HORN BLOWS

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This man came up to be and said, "I don't like your..."

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HORN BLOWS

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"..attitude."

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-So, welcome to James...

-And Jupp.

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OK, we're starting this adventure in my hometown of Carmarthen.

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Look at you, yawning away.

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I had to come up on the train the night before.

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Good morning.

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I'm in Carmarthen. It's very early in the morning.

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Elis has asked me to meet.

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I've just spent the night in a perfectly comfortable hotel but

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one that did not offer complimentary shampoo, which is...

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-That is unusual.

-Hey, hey, hey.

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-Morning. Hello.

-Welcome to the town that never sleeps.

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-Well, yeah.

-Apart from at 6:26am.

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The centre of the universe, Carmarthen.

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-Come on.

-It's very... Are we not getting...?

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No, no, no. I've got something special planned for you,

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as we're starting off in the jewel in West Wales' crown.

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OK.

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I stayed in a hotel were they didn't offer complimentary shampoo.

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Time and tide wait for no man, Miles,

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and that's the reason we're up so early because it's high tide at

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Carmarthen quay and our transport today is by boat.

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-Hello, Tony.

-Morning.

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-How are you doing?

-Very well.

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Could I have two singles to Laugharne, please?

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-You certainly can.

-One adult, one child, please.

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You're always making that joke.

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It is a joke with a purpose, Elis, to remind you to grow.

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Thank you. That's not bad, is it?

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Now, Carmarthen is quite a long way inland but on a high tide, Miles,

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you can travel all the way out to sea and our destination today is

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Laugharne, famous of course, you'll know this,

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for its connection with Dylan Thomas.

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I do know that.

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This morning, the shower I was using,

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there was no blind in the bathroom.

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-Yeah.

-It was only misted glass up to the halfway point.

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So I reckon... I stood there in the shower for ages,

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I didn't have my glasses on, so I couldn't see,

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but I could not be sure that I couldn't be entirely seen.

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There was a house there and there were some lights on.

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And I thought, I am clearly, clearly visible.

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So, I... Well, I'm afraid...

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..red rag to a bull.

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Did the full works.

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-Good morning, Carmarthen.

-Morning!

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Morning! I'm just buffing the windows.

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It didn't take long before the river widened out.

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There's Llansteffan Castle on the left,

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which is about two thirds of the way to Laugharne.

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I think, as it's an estuary now,

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it's wide enough for me to have a go at driving the boat.

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That's what they say, isn't it? Driving the boat?

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Yes, yes.

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Tony, do you mind if I have a...?

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Yeah, carry on. Right then, Elis.

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OK, if we bear right now...

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-Yeah.

-Come around this buoy.

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And we're going to head across to the green buoy and the stick.

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I had no idea what was going on here.

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Oh, my God!

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HE LAUGHS

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He just wants to get in the steering house because it's warmer in there.

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Very, very transparent behaviour. He's pretending to be interested.

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He's chatting away.

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"Oh, do I turn this bit? Do I press this?"

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He's literally just chasing some heat.

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And I'm going to do exactly the same.

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And once I'd gone in the cabin too,

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well, the mood brightened considerably.

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HORN BLOWS

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It's sort of cheeky.

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HORN BLOWS MULTIPLE TIMES

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This man came up to me and he said, "I don't like your..."

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HORN BLOWS

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"..attitude." And I said, "Well, you, sir, you can go..."

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-HORN BLOWS

-"..yourself and your...

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-HORN BLOWS

-"..can do the same."

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There is the destination ahead, the small white building right by the sea,

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which is the Dylan Thomas boathouse.

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And by this time, I did have a reason why I was quite keen to get

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off the boat.

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I tell you one thing, I really loved sailing from Carmarthen to Laugharne.

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However, on a boat of this size...

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..the toilet facilities leave a lot to be desired.

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You try pooing in one of those.

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LAUGHTER

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So, the tide is going out all the time and the water is too shallow

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for us to get off at the boat house itself.

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So, Tony needs to take us to shore on the little tender.

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Which gives us plenty of time to show you this lovely shot of the

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boat and the Taf estuary. Because it took us about as long to get ashore

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here as it did to come all the way from Carmarthen.

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Still going... Still going...

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Still going...

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Oh, progress.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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-Right, Elis, thanks for organising that.

-Hey.

-What a lovely treat.

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I am a logistics guy.

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You really are, aren't you?

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I might not be the funniest, Miles, but good grief, I'm good at admin.

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I mean, you actually like Dylan Thomas, don't you?

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-Yeah, I love him.

-Oh, good. That's all right.

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That could've been awful. "No, it's RS Thomas, I like."

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I had been here before but I was monumentally hungover

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and in a desperate hurry. So it was much less relaxing last time.

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It is a tiny house but its location is superb.

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Thomas lived here with his wife, Caitlin, and their three children.

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They must have had some rows in here, mustn't they?

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-Extraordinary to think of him being here, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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Very calm but at the same time, it cannot have been.

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So, now we're heading to the thing I actually like more than the

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boathouse - Dylan Thomas' little writing shed.

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So you've been to Laugharne before.

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I have.

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But I mean, for example, the shed,

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it's never actually open.

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You can just sort of look through the window.

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Yeah.

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Check that out.

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-Where did you get that?

-I just pinched it.

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Dylan Thomas, he probably did his chin ups from here.

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He used to do a lot of sort of upper-body stuff?

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Yeah, mainly upper-body stuff.

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That's what kept him in such good shape.

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So this is where he wrote...?

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-He wrote Under Milk Wood...?

-Yes.

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-In here.

-In here. At this desk?

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Well, who knows? Because, obviously, they're not going to keep actual

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Dylan Thomas artefacts in this shed, but we'd been told there

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was one object in here which was actually an original item.

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Owned and touched by the great man himself.

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So, was it this copy of Under Milk Wood?

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"The cold streets silent and the hunched quarters and rabbits

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"limping invisible down to the slow black, slow black,

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"crow black fishing boat bobbing the sea."

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I don't know if it can be original.

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I'd like it to be. But I'm not sure.

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-It could be...the curtains...

-1953...

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The curtains are a shout.

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Oh, I know what's original.

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I've spotted it.

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There you are.

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The old intruder alarm.

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Yeah. He put that in himself.

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The shelves are... Well, he used to be absolutely obsessed with DIY.

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If he hadn't been, think about how much more productive he'd have been.

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He was into all the latest gadgets.

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Would you like to come to America and do a series of lectures?

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I would like to but I'm screeding my shed.

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-Very...

-Creosoting the fence.

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I don't want to say it held him back but it held him back.

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And the real artefact was...

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We never found out. Come on then, trouble.

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-Where you taking me next?

-Into Laugharne city centre.

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Do you know what Laugharne needs?

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Cybercafe. 24-hour gym.

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-Gin bar?

-Yeah.

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-A Freeman Hardy Willis?

-Oh, absolutely.

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Perhaps a Jean Junction?

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He used to live there. Seaview, it's for sale.

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-Look at that.

-Thomas did?

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He actually lived there and you can buy it. Amazing.

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First thing I'd do, if I bought that place, turn it into an NCP car park.

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Just profit, then.

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Just profit.

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A quick walk around the sometimes narrow streets of Laugharne,

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but basically this was just to work up a thirst because we wanted to

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visit another well-known Thomas haunt.

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The bar of Brown's Hotel.

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Sat at the bar, it was like

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Dylan Thomas was there right next to me,

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so I came up with a belter of a TV programme idea.

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Are you ready? Who do you think you look like?

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Have you ever been told that you look like a young Dylan Thomas?

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No.

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A young Winston Churchill?

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-Yes.

-A young Mick Hucknall?

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No.

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-Not, no...

-A young John Sergeant?

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No. No.

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I could play Michael Gove in a sort of slightly cheap thing.

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I'd have to go...

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Yes, yes.

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-Nice.

-Now, because you've got this kind of...

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You look like a sort of tiny Bradley Wiggins.

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Oh, thank you. There was that time when he was very famous,

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I had similar sideburns, even though I had them first.

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And I used to get called Bradley a lot, especially at gigs and things.

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-Really?

-Yeah, especially stand-up gigs.

-Very tedious.

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-Bradley!

-Oh, God.

-And the tragic thing is...

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Never once thought of a decent...

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I never once thought of a decent comeback.

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You always just put the mic back in the stand,

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-sit on the front of the stage and cry.

-Walk off.

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Oh, well, that's that. Mic back in.

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It's funny to think of Dylan Thomas here, isn't it?

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Do you know what his drink of choice was?

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-Asti Spumante.

-Incorrect.

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-Beer?

-No, no.

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It was vodka and Tizer.

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-Was it? That was his thing?

-Loved it.

-Yeah.

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If he couldn't get Tizer, he'd have Lilt or Rio.

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-Yeah, basically he drank like he was on a hen do.

-Right.

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And, of course, dressed up... Deely-boppers.

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-Big inflatable...

-L plates on the back of his pants.

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That was his modus operandi.

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And yet when we went to the shop today,

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they weren't selling any of that stuff.

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They made him look like he was quite sensible.

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Yeah, yeah. And he looked like a poet.

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But actually, if you knew him...

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No, no, that's absolutely not what he was...

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-Yeah.

-L plate and a big sash.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I have absolutely no idea what we were laughing at there but do drink responsibly.

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Next morning, I'm trying to work out how the Mini

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-got from Carmarthen to Laugharne.

-I told you,

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I'm a logistics man and we need the Mini today because it's going to see

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some proper action.

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And if the Mini had a swear box,

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then it was about to see a lot of action.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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-BLEEP

-My...

-BLEEP

-What's wrong with this?

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-Piece of...

-BLEEP

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-What gear am I...

-BLEEP

-..in?

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-Honestly.

-I think I've mastered this Mini better.

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-You have.

-But I feel in complete synergy with the Mini.

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-Do you really?

-Yeah.

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I can't believe you would feel synergy with something

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that I find small and irritating.

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-It's a...

-How on earth has this happened?

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It's a symbiotic relationship between the Mini and me.

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Do you want to know what gear I'm in right now?

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-Fourth.

-I'm not in a gear.

-Oh, right. Cruising?

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-It was a trick question.

-What, you are in neutral now?

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No. No, now I'm in second gear.

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So, we're now going from Laugharne just along the coast to Pendine,

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famous for its long flat sandy beach where many land speed record

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attempts have been made.

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BABS.

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In the museum just by the beach is the actual car that Welshman,

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John Parry Thomas, was driving on Pendine Sands when he set the land

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speed record of 170mph in 1926.

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Basically, you'd be able to run very small errands with it,

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posting a letter, that sort of thing.

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-You wouldn't be able to do your weekly shop in it.

-No.

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Because if oranges came out of your bag,

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they'd roll around by the pedals.

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Like all West Walians, I had my first driving lesson

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on Pendine Sands. I think it was illegal then.

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It's certainly illegal now.

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That is where you learnt to drive?

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Well, my first lesson, but Dad played fast and loose with the rules.

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-So, are we breaking the rules again today?

-Big-time.

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Thank you, Frank.

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Right then. This is extraordinary. So just driving down onto the beach?

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-Yeah.

-It feels like incredibly reckless behaviour.

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-Left or right, would you like?

-Left, please.

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Left turn. So this is very much like your driving lessons, then.

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Driving on a beach. That's crazy behaviour, isn't it?

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So there it is, seven miles of uninterrupted beautiful beach but

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you can't drive along it normally because it's used as a firing range

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by the MOD.

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Have you seen Thelma and Louise?

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Strap in.

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I think Thelma and Louise probably

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went a little bit faster than 19mph though.

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I'm very happy at this pace.

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Always indicate.

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LAUGHTER

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Come on. I think it's my turn now.

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Are you ready? Three, two, one, out.

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What tiny legs you have, tiny.

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Your legs are weirdly long...

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# Shut up and drive... #

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OK, already, this is terrifying.

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Oh, I just squished a jellyfish.

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-But it was already dead.

-We don't know that.

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You really like the gearbox to sort of run the gamut of emotional

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sounds, don't you?

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Oh, my word!

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I am enjoying this...so little.

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Elis, that was only about 90 seconds

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but I found it absolutely sick making.

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# Now shut up and drive... #

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So, Miles, I've organised the vast majority of this trip.

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But tonight is a mystery, so where are we staying?

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We are going to...

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..a campsite...

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..where they have caravans.

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Oh, great.

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And the crew will stay in a caravan.

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We, however, are going to sleep in a tent together.

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Why? I hate camping.

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I absolutely hate it.

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What sort of tent...? Is it one of those glamping tents where

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everything is really flash and modern and nice?

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Um...

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I... I don't want to reveal too much in advance.

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Oh, it's going to be a rubbish little 15 pounder, isn't it?

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Er... Yes.

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So far, I'm extremely happy with the way things are going.

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It's lovely here. It's very busy, there's lots of other people around.

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Um...

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Um...

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HE LAUGHS

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You were loving it, weren't you?

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Camping in the driving rain, you weird man.

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I mean... He's on about cooking on the gas stove.

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He thinks he's in The Famous Five.

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I accept that there are worse things going on in the world,

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but I've been happier. That is how I feel about it.

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I... For God's sake.

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So, I thought I'd take Elis to meet the neighbours.

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-Hello.

-Hello.

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How are you doing? Very nice to meet you.

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-Nice to meet you.

-Hello.

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-I'm Elis.

-I'm Sarah.

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Are we having fun?

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-We are having fun.

-All of you are having fun?

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In the cold and the rain.

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More importantly, who is the person who is not having fun?

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-Him.

-Yes!

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What would you prefer to be doing?

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I'd prefer to be back in Cardiff, where I live.

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-Yes!

-I've got a house made of bricks.

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Yes!

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When my wife booked the holiday...

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I think when she checked the BBC weather app, instead of Narberth,

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she looked at Nairobi for the temperature.

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And got all confused and here we are.

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This is quite nice, though.

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-It's lovely.

-This is...

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This is better than what we've got.

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This is the dining room.

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This is good.

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I don't... I'm not sure I want Elis seeing this

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because he's going to sort of bemoan our facility.

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It even says home.

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-What is it? Is that an air bed?

-Yeah.

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But eventually, it was time to turn in.

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Right, OK.

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Just open it all up and then we'll be...

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Let's get in there properly and we'll get nice and warm,

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nice and quickly.

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OK.

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It's essentially very roomy, I think.

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OK. Right, night-night.

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There. There we go. Super.

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Right, pass me that. Pass me my phone.

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The minute they've gone, I'm going to phone a hotel,

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-because this is unbearable.

-We could go back to Laugharne, it's not far.

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That's true.

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Anyway, where are we off to now?

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Well, today, we've gone further west to Neyland.

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There it is. And we're on another boat because this time, we're going

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up the Daugleddau estuary.

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It's an amazing tidal area of rivers and backwaters.

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It's like a hidden world up here because a lot of places are easier

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to get to by boat than by road.

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It's called the Daugleddau because there are two Cleddau rivers.

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They join together further upstream.

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We're going up as far as Llangwm or Langem as the locals call it.

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And this is the Cleddau Bridge, which actually collapsed when it was

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being built and you go under that and head inland.

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Elis, I popped to the chandlers shop earlier.

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-Oh, yeah?

-And bought...

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-Ooh!

-..a commercial chocolate bar.

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And I thought you could have some of it provided you were prepared to

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answer some trivia questions.

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OK.

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What is the most demeaning thing that you have ever done?

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Most demeaning thing I've ever done...

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I did warm up on the Welsh language Mastermind and an old man came up to

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me in the toilets and he said in Welsh...

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Oh, no. I thought the first it was the demeaning bit.

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No, no, he said, "You have got nothing."

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LAUGHTER

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Well, you've got something now, Elis.

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-Oh, thank you.

-Congratulations.

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I got sacked in the car park.

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I hadn't even got to my car.

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I must have done about 30 paces when my phone rang and it was the

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producer and he said, "We've seen enough."

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-Wow!

-Yeah.

-Is that all he said?

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-Yeah.

-And then the line went dead.

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You'd better have another of these. That sounds quite traumatic.

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Didn't you go on Celebrity Mastermind once?

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-I did, yes.

-And how did you get on?

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-I won.

-Ooh! Specialist subject?

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The cricketing career of former England captain, Michael Atherton.

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-I beat Rachel Riley.

-God, you're amazing.

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You do know that, don't you?

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I do.

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So, just past this bend of the river is the tiny hamlet of Coedcanlas,

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which is about five miles from Neyland by river but 15 miles by road.

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And we need to get ashore.

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Hi there, how's it going?

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-Good. How are you?

-Yeah, we're all right.

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Is it hard, that row?

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Are you well practised?

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This boat just glides along like a dream.

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-How'd you do, Miles.

-How do you do, Nick.

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-This is Elis.

-Hello, Nick.

-How are you doing?

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So, Nick wasn't just a kindly passing stranger in a rowing boat.

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We'd come here to meet him and his family,

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wife Annette and daughters Josie and Moki.

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Did you just pick this place at random?

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I mean, what drew you here?

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I was actually born in Carmarthen.

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Yes!

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-Congratulations.

-And I came back here with an old boat

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I was hoping to do up and sail off on.

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But I got stranded here and started a family and...

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Wow! You make it sound like it was against your will.

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-Yeah.

-I think it probably was, actually. Yeah.

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What is it that draws you to the landscape here?

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It's definitely the connection with the sea.

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The beauty of it is you can get in a boat and sail down to the heads,

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St Ann's Head, and then you can go anywhere in the world.

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So, we should probably tell everyone what Nick and family do.

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They make honey on this farmland on the banks of the River Cleddau.

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Inside this little unit,

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they process the honey and also make marmalade when the bees are

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having a rest.

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And Josie was on hand to answer a honey related question.

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It keeps for years. It can crystallise sometimes over time.

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There's nothing wrong with it when it crystallises?

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No, not at all, it's just the sugar crystals.

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If you heat it really gently...

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Good, that's settled a domestic dispute I've had with my girlfriend

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for about ten years. There's nothing wrong with it.

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It's perfectly safe to apply honey in all areas...

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And she should relax.

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So, we wanted to see the bees.

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And for that, you need to get suited up.

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But... This is a Queen wasp that Nick has found in the suit that I

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was about to put on.

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It was in the crotch area as well.

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-Was it?

-It could've been nasty.

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Don't worry, I'm double bagged.

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He's also got five kids. It will be a blessing.

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LAUGHTER

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MUSIC: Theme From A-Team

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And now it was time to get the team together for one last job.

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Which team? The bee team.

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God, I love slow-mo.

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And I love you.

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Let's go to work.

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We look like we're testing their farm for radiation.

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We do. Nick's clearly a bit more relaxed about life.

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It's quite cool out here today but inside the brood nest,

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it's 35 degrees.

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You can feel the heat coming off...

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35 degrees in there?

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Yeah, you can put your hand in...

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No, that's insanity. Why would I do that?

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I've felt warm things before.

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I feel indestructible in this outfit.

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-Oh, wow!

-That is extraordinary.

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This is a feeder on the top.

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At the end of last year, in October November time,

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we get a lot of ivy around here.

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And they've got a lot of ivy honey.

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So there's the Queen, you can see here.

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Terrifying but beautiful sight, I would say.

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Would you like to try some of the honey?

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-Oh, yes, please.

-I'd love some, yeah.

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Which bit of a bead does the honey come out of?

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Is it a teat or some sort of...?

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Some sort of duct that we don't have?

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I'm laughing but I don't know.

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We've got, obviously, netting between our fingers and our mouths.

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Yeah, good point.

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It's nice to look at.

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We can go and eat it somewhere else where you can take your veils off,

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-if you like.

-Yes.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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If you and I are going to break bread together,

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I have to undress first.

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Is that your golden rule?

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Very much so, yes. Passed down through my mother's side.

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So, this is a bit of honeycomb?

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It is. A bit of honeycomb that came out of the feeder just now.

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-And I can eat this?

-You can, yes.

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OK.

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That's ivy honey from the end of last year.

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Isn't ivy poisonous?

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It is, yeah.

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-It's very nice.

-We forgot to tell you that.

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Having been at the more dangerous end of the honey making process,

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can we enjoy something safely out of a jar?

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Yes, so we've got a range here. We've got the clear,

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set heather honey and then on the left, there,

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next to the heather honey is last year's early honey,

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so that's largely from Sycamore, May...

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OK. And this is orange...

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This is Seville orange.

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That is bees that have been on a mainly marmalade diet.

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Yes, largely. Feed them oranges all year and see what comes out.

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Is your honey organic?

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It's about as close as you can get organic.

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Organically produced.

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Just because in my experience,

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pesticides actually taste quite nice.

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I probably wouldn't bother with the whole organic thing.

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It tastes... If anything, it tastes better.

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I'm afraid it's time to leave the happy group,

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breaking bread and spreading honey.

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This is James and Jupp signing off.

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Till we meet again...

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..in Cairo.

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