we've just returned, like drowned rats, from three days camping on the gower peninsula in wales. the weather was ... mixed. we pitched our tent on thursday night and it began to rain in the wee small hours (ask the local hedgehog population why i happened to be awake at the time) and continued to rain until saturday morning. not a drizzly rain, not showery rain, but an incessant, driving rain that crept in the seams and vents, and soaked through clothes in minutes, that ran from your waterproof jacket onto your legs.
it stopped for saturday, and began again on sunday morning - just when we had to break camp and return to bristol.
sincere thanks must go to ralph and rach for their huge tent though - it made being stuck inside for 18 hours straight bearable.
