The reason why Pigen and Piching visited Swansea was because the Fishguard, the last stop in South Wales Lines is too far with only two runs a day. There are two choices to arrive at Swansea by train. One is running through Hereford and Cardiff to Swansea. It will take 3 hours. The other is crossing through the heart of Wales. It will take 4 hours.(There are four runs from Monday to Saturday and merely two runs on Sunday.) Of course, Piching wanted to have a easy way to explore Wales so she chose the later one even it took longer.
選擇到天鵝海(斯溫西)， 主要是南威爾斯火車線的最末站魚哨(Fishguard)太遠，一天僅兩班次。到天鵝海有兩條路 線，一是從蘇斯伯利搭乘往赫里福郡方向、經過卡地夫到天鵝海，車程約三小時；一是搭乘班次很少、橫越威爾斯心臟地帶的路線(除星期日兩班以外，其餘一天四 班)，車程約四小時。想當然爾，P青想要輕鬆見識一下威爾斯的地理景觀，所以選擇了車程較久的威爾斯心臟路線。
Shrewsbury to Swansea(蘇斯伯利到天鵝海) 14:05-18:06
14:36 Craven Arms
14:41 Broome
14:45 Hopton Heath
14:49 Bucknell
14:58 Knighton
15:03 Knucklas
15:11 Llangynllo
15:15 Llanbister Road
15:21 Dolau
15:25 Pen-y-Bont
15:38 Llandrindod
15:47 Builth Road
15:50 Cilmeri
15:55 Garth (Powys)
15:59 Llangammarch
16:07 Llanwrtyd
16:13 Sugar Loaf Halt
16:20 Cynghordy
16:32 Llandovery
16:37 Llanwrda
16:41 Llangadog
16:52 Llandeilo
16:55 Ffairfach
17:02 Llandybie
17:06 Ammanford
17:09 Pantyffynnon
17:15 Pontarddulais
17:19 Llangennech
17:22 Bynea
17:36 Llanelli
17:44 Gowerton
Unfortunately, it's a bad decision. On the way to Swansea, there's nothing special for them. Maybe it caused by their loooooong journey...thus they didn't touched by the scenery.不過，這似乎是個錯誤的決定，沿路並未見到任何如蘇格蘭般讓人驚豔的景色，不知道是否旅行久了而讓人麻木？
Once they arrived in Swansea, they didn't want to stay there longer because it's a centre of heavy industry and doesn't have a sea full of swan. The famous poet Dylan Thomas was born here. Many years ago, Piching had ever watched a performance in memory of Dylan Thomas in Warwick Arts Centre. She couldn't understand performers' each word but she might have a strong version by performers' body language and rhyme in their words. (Perhaps you can look into Dylan Thomas' world and the fascination of Wales in The Edge of Love.)
天鵝海也是個不會讓人久留的城市，畢竟它是重工業中心，而不是充斥天鵝的海邊城市。狄蘭·托馬斯出生於此，多年前，P青曾經在華威藝文中心看過紀念狄蘭·托馬斯的演出，或許無法聽懂表演者的每一個字句，但透過肢體動作及語言音韻卻帶給觀者強力的想像。(或許在最近上映的The Edge of Love可以一窺狄蘭·托馬斯及威爾斯的魅力。)
體驗不同的天鵝海，到Little Flower的部落格看看!!
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