Recommended by Rough Guides

We just had an email from Rough Guides…

It’s my great pleasure to inform you that you have been recommended by our authors and listed in The Rough Guide to The Best Places to Stay in Britain on a Budget! This means that you have the right to the put the “Recommended by Rough Guides” icon on your website so that everyone knows!

How lovely, we are very pleased :)

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Who will win the 2 spots on our Valentines Adventurous Encounters weekend?

The Valentines ‘Adventurous Encounters’ singles adventure weekend entrants and starting to come in.  Woot!

We need to choose one guy and one gal out of these lovely looking hopefuls…it’s going to be a very tough choice me thinks!

Just to remind you – we have 2 FREE spots to give away on our Valentines singles adventure weekend on the 10th – 12th February, each spot is worth £215 – and the details of how to enter are here.

Without further ado, here are our adventure and fun seeking competitors – who would you vote for?

Here they are, in all of their glory…

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Love on the rocks – win a singles Valentines adventure weekend at Preseli Venture

Take the plunge on our NEW Adventurous Encounters event.

Speed dating: tick. Online dating: tick. Painful evening sat next to only other single person at so-called friend’s dinner party: tick.

All sound terrifyingly familiar? How about coasteering, sea kayaking and surfing your way to romance instead? This Valentine’s weekend, we’re launching Adventurous Encounters, our singles adventure weekend with a difference.

There won’t be any forced speed dating here – just a chance to have a laugh and enjoy some exhilarating activities along the spectacular Pembrokeshire coastline with like-minded adventure seekers. And you never know, you might meet the guy/girl of your dreams…read more to find out how to WIN one of 2 spots on Valentines weekend 2012!

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The Ecologist: 5 of the best green weekend breaks

Last week were totally chuffed to be featured in The Ecologist online, in their ’5 of the best…green weekend breaks’ feature. The piece was written by our friend Holly Tuppen at Green Traveller, and is a lovely round up of inspirational locations for a weekend break, easily reachable from the UK without flying.

Read part of the article below, or read the full article on the Ecologist website.

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One Positive Step – a guest post from Catherine Girone

A big thankyou to Catherine Girone, who came to visit us at Preseli Venture way back in 2010, for allowing us to reproduce a post from her blog, One Positive Step, here.

I stumbled upon Catherine’s blog back in July, and was so chuffed to read the lovely words that she wrote about her stay at Preseli Venture – and also to hear that apart from having a damn good weekend of fun and adventures she’d actually found her time on the Pembrokeshire coastline to be a ‘life changing experience’.  I forwarded the post to Catherine Mack, who was equally touched by her beautiful words.  After a period of online stalking I tracked Catherine down and asked if she’d be happy for me to share her story on the PV blog. Without further ado, here’s that lovely post….

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