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The gentle opener: 7 miles of woods, tunnels and resort sands via Saundersfoot — good bus links both ends.

The limestone showpiece: Barafundle, Stackpole Head's blowholes, Broad Haven South and St Govan's Chapel — 6 miles of the park's finest.

8-mile circuit round the Deer Park and Marloes Sands — seals in autumn, Skokholm and Skomer offshore all the way.

Harbour to cathedral city: 6 miles past St Non's chapel and some of the north's loveliest small coves.

Wild and rocky: St Davids Head, Coetan Arthur, heather ridges and the Blue Lagoon finish — 7 tough, brilliant miles.

The north's cliff drama: folded strata at Ceibwr and the collapsed cave of the Witches' Cauldron — 7 strenuous miles.

186 miles, about 35,000 feet of ascent, and one section that shuts for live firing. Fixed base or nightly moves, the buses, and the stretches worth p…

The coastal buses exist so walkers can do one-way stretches of the Coast Path. How the walk-out-bus-back trick works, and what it can't do in winter.

The Coast Path's southern gateway: a long village beach revealing a drowned forest at low tide, with dogs welcome year-round at the western end.

A working Welsh-speaking village a field's width from the Coast Path, with a ruined seaside corn mill and Porthgain up the road.

A quiet valley village above Ceibwr Bay, at the wildest and least-walked end of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

Abbey ruins, a working water mill and the official start of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, on the Teifi opposite Cardigan.

A long low-tide beach at the Coast Path's start, with a 7,000-year-old drowned forest under the sand and a year-round dog end.

The Coast Path's northern terminus: wide Teifi-estuary sands with dunes, lifeguards and dolphin chances offshore.

A small, stony, Coast-Path-only cove east of Caerfai — quiet, geological, and no use at all for sunbathing.

A secluded sandy beach under Monkstone Point between Tenby and Saundersfoot — earned by a steep walk down through woods.

A sandy bay between Freshwater East and Manorbier with no road access at all — usually empty, and entirely tide-dependent.

The small shingle cove near St Ann's Head where Henry Tudor landed in 1485 on his way to Bosworth — history, not sunbathing.

The first stage of the Coast Path, through old coal country and tunnels cut for a tramway, ending inside Tenby's town walls.

The northern end of the Coast Path, and its highest cliffs. Hard work, few people, and dolphins offshore more often than not.

The official start of the Coast Path, and by far its gentlest stage: a flat two and a half miles down the Teifi estuary to a big sandy beach.

The one stage of the Coast Path most walkers never do on the coast: the cliff route crosses a live firing range and the everyday alternative is inlan…

Elevated holiday park with panoramic views over Fishguard Bay, a seasonal outdoor heated pool and the coast path on the doorstep.