Winter walks on the Pembrokeshire coast Best Winter Walks Here are just a few of our favourite walks.  So many on offer around Pembrokeshire that it's hard to choose Read more
History of Greenshutters Part II Rebuilding Greenshutters | A Sustainable Beach House in Pembrokeshire Rebuilding Greenshutters: From Storm-Damaged Chalet to All-Season Coastal Home When the original chalet finally gave way in 2009, it wasn’t just a building that collapsed — it was decades of family history. Buckets catching rainwater in the living room had become normal. The balcony had weathered more storms... Read more
Reduce, Re-use, Rejoice SayNoToPlasticPackaging Saying No to Plastic Packaging | Where It Began for Me It’s hard to unsee waste once you’ve really seen it. When I was running the Hampstead Lido café, I became increasingly aware of just how much plastic flowed through our hands every single day. Bottled water stacked... Read more
Seal Watching in Pembrokeshire Seal Watching Seal Watching in Pembrokeshire: A Quiet Coastal Privilege One of the great, understated pleasures of staying on the Pembrokeshire coast is how effortlessly wildlife appears. A movement in the water. A curious head surfacing. A still shape on a distant beach that turns out to be a seal resting between... Read more
Coastal Wellbeing in Pembrokeshire Why I Fell in Love with Sauna WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: HAMPSTEAD HEATH LIDO Back in 2016, while helping set up the Parliament Hill Fields Lido Community Café, I watched cold-water swimmers emerge from 5°C water looking lighter, brighter and somehow more themselves. It wasn’t fitness. It was a ritual — a way people reset from... Read more
The story so far... History Of Greenshutters Greenshutters: A Family Story Rooted in Pembrokeshire Some places are visited. Others are lived into, layer by layer, memory by memory.Greenshutters belongs firmly in the second category. The Carroll family have been coming to this stretch of Pembrokeshire coastline since the 1960s and their ancestors for many generations before that.... Read more