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A family of English tourists spent five hours looking for Traeth Beach yesterday.

Tarquin Smythe-Peacock and his family gave up looking and eventually took themselves and their cucumber sandwiches home after 5 hours.

He told WalesOnCraic:

“We couldn’t find the bloody place. Everywhere we went, we could see the signs but they all kept leading us to the next sign. Poor Timmy was on the back seat, bawling his jolly little eyes out and my wife Pippa was getting extraordinarily flustered, especially with her perimenopausal symptoms. All we wanted to do was use our new tweed three-drawer picnic basket and eat our cucumber sandwiches on the damned beach.

“In the end, we gave up and took our Land Rover home and ate our sandwiches in front of our 72” TV set. We never found Traeth Beach so we’re going to have to Google it the next time we go looking for it.”

Wales has numerous Traeth Beaches dotted around the country, each one signposted.

Gareth Gunt, head of Welsh Tourism in Wales, said:

“God knows how he couldn’t find it. We’ve signposted the shit out of it for people like him. I don’t know what else we could do, other than take him there ourselves.

“What a pleb,” he added.

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