Sandi's bare faced cheek promotes Pembrokeshire (From Western Telegraph)

Sandi's bare faced cheek promotes Pembrokeshire

Comedienne Sandi Toksvig has good reason to remember her visit to Pembrokeshire last October.

She ended up driving around with no pants on.

She had in fact arrived for a sailing weekend at Dale.

Having brought along her wet weather gear, she was told she needed instead to don a wet suit.

I went and forced my body into a rubber suit. Not having known about the correct apparel for the day I hadnt brought a swimsuit. Just be au naturel, called Pete Bounds, of the West Wales Windsurf and Sailing Centre.

Well, I couldnt. Too many years of living in Surrey for that sort of thing. I wore my pants, said Sandi.

And of course they got drenched.

Sandi tells her story in the Wales Tourist Boards holiday magazine A View of Wales.

In an entertaining article, accompanied by some fantastic pictures, Sandi recalls how she was re-introduced to boats several years after sailing around Britain with former Beirut hostage John McCarthy.

She did this through Pete Bounds and sailing instructor Annie, of the West Wales Windsurf and Sailing Centre at Dale.

No stranger to Pembrokeshire, Sandi has spent countless holidays walking the sands of Newgale beach in St Brides Bay, eating too much cream tea in the shadow of St Davids splendid cathedral and tucking up at night at Solvas safe little harbour.

But this was the first time she had been to Dale, which she describes as a place clearly touched by angels.

There is some free advice for drivers taking the road between Broad and Little Haven. Check the length of your car before you set out, Mine had to do yoga exercises to get through.

And she added: I had stepped back into another age where time was a friend who should never be killed.

The experience left her hooked on this part of Pembrokeshire and wanting to explore more.

But my drenched pants would not shake off the sea, she wrote. I was faced with two choices. I could return to my hotel (the utterly excellent Wolfscastle Country Hotel) or I could drive pant-less. I think you know the decision.

Caption: Sandi (left) gets to grips with learning to sail with the West Wales Windsurf and Sailing Centre at Dale. PICTURE: Wales Tourist Board.