“Where are you going this weekend? ” asked my journalist friend, a German. I said I was heading down to Swansea in south Wales for a conference.
“Swansea?” he replied, slightly incredulous. “I heard there was a beach there, so I went with my family and some young guys just drove motorcycles up and down the sand the whole time. Swansea – interesting place. Take care at the beach.”
His words were ringing in my ears on Friday evening as I walked back to my hotel along the promenade above the beach, with Swansea Bay stretched out beyond. There were teenage boys hanging around, but none on motorbikes. It didn’t seem so bad.
I stopped to read a brass memorial plate on a bench.
“That’s Josh,” said a man wearing a flat cap, sitting on the next bench.
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