Mumbles is in the number one spot for 'places to love in 2021,' according to the New York Times.

The rest of the world appears to be catching on to the beauty of Mumbles and the Gower, after the New York Times included South Wales, specifically Mumbles, in the top spot on their list of 52 Places to Love in 2021. The main description of the area read: "You're in a place set apart."

The newspaper had reached out to its readers, asking them to write in about "the spots that have delighted, inspired and comforted them in a dark year," with Mumbles, Swansea, and South Wales in general, proving to be a popular destination.

One reader, Owen Markitan, a lawyer from California, said: "Over the last 20 years I've travelled to South Wales about seven or eight times with my wife, and later our children, to visit family in a town near Swansea called Mumbles. (The name is a corruption of the French word for 'breasts.')

"It sits at the edge of the Gower Peninsula — a beautiful wild place that offers expansive beaches, medieval castles, hilltop trails, horses that graze near Stone Age ruins and picture-book villages with friendly pubs serving Sunday roasts and local ales in dark-wood booths."

He continued: "Mumbles is homey and welcoming, yet we never saw tourists there. The roads are so small and narrow that getting from one place to another feels like it's much farther than you actually travel.

"Punctuated by weddings, births, graduations, anniversaries and deaths, our trips represented different stages in our lives. But each trip also seemed less like a visit to relatives in the old country than an escape to a secret, beautiful place that only we knew."

Councillor Myles Langstone posted the link to the list on his Facebook page, commenting: "Mumbles is in the New York Times at the number 1 spot on their places to visit in 2021! It's easy to see why!

"Amazing to see Mumbles getting love from around the world things are looking up for 2021!"

Mumbles' popularity has grown in recent years, with it appearing in the Sunday Times' Best Places To Live for three years in a row.

See the full list by visiting The New York Times.

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