St. Nicholas

Today is the day of St. Nicholas.
In Germany, children used to find a few sweets in their well-polished shoes when they left them outside their bedroom door. Don't know if that is still happening.
St. Nicholas is also a name for two villages I know in South Wales. One is West of Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, the other is in Pembrokeshire.
The Pembrokeshire St.Nicholas we used to walk to when we rented a cottage at Aberbach. This ist the small beach next to Abermawr (mawr = big, bach = small, aber = beach, in Welsh).
I loved sitting on the headland, looking across Aberbach out to the sea and to the islands further south along the coast. the weather changed quickly and one could see the rain approaching from the Southwest.
I understood then why the celtic legends tell of islands which move, because depending on the light, the time of day and the weather, the nearest island, which was called Ynys Deullen (I think ...), looked to be further away or quite close.
On Aberbach I collected fantastic pebbles washed in from the sea.
Now you know ...