Date spot in Swansea
Swansea Market
Graze your way round Wales's biggest covered market: Penclawdd cockles, laverbread, Welsh cakes warm off the griddle and plenty of stalls to browse.
Oxford Street, city centre
Address: Oxford Street, Swansea SA1 3PE- Restaurant
- Rain-proof ☔
- Cheap and cheerful
- Foodie
Why it's a good date: Dry, cheap and properly local. Try cockles and laverbread if you never have, take a bag of Welsh cakes for later, and go in the morning when the stalls are busiest.
Photo: Alex Liivet from Chester, United Kingdom, CC0 (cropped and resized)
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Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Alexandra Road, city centre
Address: Alexandra Road, Swansea SA1 5DZ- Culture
- Rain-proof ☔
- Free
Look round the city's free art gallery, with Welsh paintings, porcelain and changing exhibitions in a handsome Edwardian building and its modern wing.
Why it's a good date: Quiet, free and a few minutes' walk from the station, so it's an easy rain plan. Pick a favourite painting each and go for lunch at the market afterwards.
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized)
National Waterfront Museum
Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter
Address: Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD- Culture
- Rain-proof ☔
- Free
Explore the story of Welsh industry and invention, from copper and coal to computers, in an old dockside warehouse joined to a glass hall.
Why it's a good date: One of Wales's free national museums, and there's lots to play with. Afterwards walk round the Marina and out to the beach, which is just across the road.
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Somerset Place, Maritime Quarter
Address: Somerset Place, Swansea SA1 1RR- Culture
- Rain-proof ☔
- Free
See the free exhibition on Swansea's most famous son, with his letters, notebooks and photos, in the grand old Guildhall by the river.
Why it's a good date: A good way into the man before you hear his lines read out. If it hooks you, book a tour of his birthplace at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in Uplands and walk round Cwmdonkin Park, which he wrote about.
Photo: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped and resized)
