Gareth Edwards’ Great Welsh Adventure 

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Gareth Edwards and his wife Maureen cause chaos as they explore stunning Welsh canals.

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Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure: Series 2: Episode 4

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Rugby legend Gareth and wife Maureen visit their top family holiday spot, St Davids.

Shire horses, lifeboat heroes and a rugby team who train on the beach are among friends old and new that Gareth and Maureen Edwards meet on a trip away to St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

Gareth and Maureen Edwards head to St Davids, a place which holds half a lifetime of special memories for them. After making 53 appearances for Wales, Gareth retired from rugby in 1978. After years in the public eye, he and Maureen booked a holiday in St Davids for them and their young boys. The holiday was such a hit, they returned every summer for more than 40 years. 

Gareth and Maureen begin with a visit to a shire horse farm. A century ago there were more than a million shire horses in the UK, but today there are under 3,000 and the farm is working to safeguard the species. Gareth and Maureen meet the horses before finding out who can master driving a shire horse-drawn carriage. 

Later, watching the St Davids rugby team train on the beach brings back memories for Gareth who, as a young player, did the same with the Welsh team at Aberavon beach. The couple are delighted to catch up with old friend, Dai Chant, the medal-winning former coxswain of the St Davids’ lifeboat. The old lifeboat station he worked from has been abandoned in favour of a state-of-the-art station next door. They see the new lifeboat launch as the crew go out on exercise. 

Catching a boat to Ramsey Island, Gareth and Maureen visit the remote bird sanctuary and discover the colony of razorbills – or ‘razorblades’ as Maureen call them - on the precipitous wild cliffs on the far side of the island. 

Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure: Series 2

Rugby legend Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen are more than ready for a new adventure.

Gareth and Maureen Edwards are heading off on the first of five new adventures across Wales. Once pandemic restrictions were lifted, they were keen to get out once more.

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