I was sick and missed the first day in Cardiff. We travelled on the second day and I slept for most of the journey, unwell, disconnected. I woke as the minibus was negotiating its way along an impossibly narrow lane to the secret location, which I'd overheard people guessing. Correctly as it turned out: Dale Fort, in Pembrokeshire.



There has been a human presence on Dale Fort Point since the Bronze Age. But the current building, constructed 1853 - 1856, dates from a period of panic…