LITTLE THINGS

The tiny city of St Davids unfolds its secrets gently. Take, for example, the way its famous cathedral hides tucked away in a hollow with no conspicuous silhouette proclaiming its presence on the horizon. Its hiding place is no mistake – on the most westerly point of Wales, the city sits in what was once a vulnerable location, falling victim time and again to Viking marauders.

This means that visitors are often found wandering the streets of the coastal city, past cafés, tiny galleries and bookshops, actually searching for the cathedral. As you pass downhill through the gatehouse, the discovery of the grey-purplish towered building and the eerie ruins of the Bishop’s Palace next to it is a rewarding one.

The building, like the city, is not grand or imposing in the way that some of Britain’s cathedrals