We are delighted here at Bayview, that fabulous chef, Hywel Griffith, of the acclaimed Michelin Star Beach House Restaurant right here on the beach front at Oxwich, made it through to the final of #GreatBritishMenu 2021. We were cheering him on every step of the way through this iconic BBC television show.

Our visitors to Bayview often ask us what we can recommend to enhance their holiday experience in Gower. They are especially interested in the authentic experiences Gower can offer: whether it’s a steer to some of the best restaurants for a true taste of Gower’s food and drink, or walks that introduce them to Gower’s less trodden and hidden paths.

Our guests here at Bayview, Oxwich are often asking us to point them in the direction of Gower’s hidden face – the wealth of history and culture that exists in the peninsula alongside the miles of sandy beaches and dramatic limestone cliffs that it is famed for. They tell us this makes for a more enriching holiday and that it is so satisfying to be privy to special information and Gower’s secrets.

Television viewers in Wales will be familiar with Derek Brockway – Derek the Weather – for his daily appearances on BBC Wales outlining what’s in store for us with the weather. Television viewers outside Wales might know him for his popular BBC television series Weatherman Walking, in which he introduces his audience to perhaps lesser known, and most definitely, hidden gems of walks across the length and breadth of Wales.

We were delighted to welcome guests from within Wales back to Bayview in time for the Easter Holidays. It was lovely to see people out and about enjoying the grounds (and the weather) here in Oxwich. We celebrated by organising an Easter Egg Hunt (socially distanced!) and everyone enjoyed.

Our family loves to explore Gower in many different ways: walking on our own two legs, cycling on two wheels, and since Freddie the horse has become the latest addition to the family, our girls have started to see Gower from a new perspective from the saddle of their four-legged friend.

Sometimes it’s good to remind ourselves, and our visitors, at Bayview, Oxwich, just how highly Wales rates as a destination for world-class golfing experiences.

At Bayview, Oxwich we’re lucky to have not one, but two, award-winning beverage enterprises on our doorstep. We’re delighted to endorse The Gower Gin Company and The Gower Brewery for their outstanding gins and beers and thrilled that both companies are recognised for flying the flag for Gower produce.

At Bayview, Oxwich we’re proud our local Gower food brands are known world-wide for excellence and flavour: cockles, laverbread, saltmarsh lamb, and samphire. Surrounded on three sides by ocean means we’re never short of freshly caught fish and sea food and other delicacies from sea and shore.

In Wales we have a word for taste: blas. And Gower has it in abundance. A true taste all of its own. Blessed by warm summers, mild winters, and just the right amount of rainfall, we have more than our fair share of green fields, providing a readily available larder of first class meat and dairy produce on the doorstep.

Sometimes it’s easy for us to take too much for granted what’s right on the doorstep at Bayview, Oxwich. We’re a little blasé about the fact that Gower has it all: glorious beaches, dramatic cliffs, ancient woodland, marshes, moorland, castles, churches and culture. All this packed into a peninsula that’s so compact you really can have everything when you come to visit.

Advent, with a capital A, is usually used in its religious sense to denote the coming of Christmas. However, on this, the last day of 2020, with a new year knocking on the door, we thought we’d use it in its wider meaning of the ‘arrival of a notable person or thing’ to let you know what’s coming here at Bayview, Oxwich in 2021.