I have fond memories of spending over a month with a friend in Swansea way back in 2014. It was summertime, and she lived a 10-minute walk from the beach. The small harbor we walked by every day was charming, and life in Wales is the perfect pace–not hurried at all but not terribly slow. So when my friend and her husband invited us to spend a weekend with them in Wales during our recent UK trip, we were excited.