Weekend Break TRAVEL
The Wye Valley - straddling the border between England and Wales - has a strong claim to be the birthplace of British tourism. In 1770, Reverend William Gilpin took a two-day boat trip down the Wye from Ross to Chepstow.
His subsequent guidebook, Observations on the River Wye, was the first tour guide to be published in Britain, leading to the ‘discovery’ of the Wye Valley as a great holiday destination.
My husband, Paul, and I were staying at the Forest and Wye Valley Camping Site, on the outskirts of St Briavels in Gloucestershire.
We were to spend the next few days criss-crossing the border, occasionally finding ourselves with one foot in England and the other in Wales! More on that later….
With time to spare before checking in, we headed for Monmouth, It's a pretty market town situated where the Monnow joins the Wye, just two miles from the border with England. Monmouthshire's status has been contested over the centuries, considered at times to
