Not surprisingly, you will run into the tourists again when you come to Tintern with its abbey - a magnificently preserved Cistercian monastery beside the Wye. Gone is the 12th century solitude that drew the Cistercians here for the appropriate tranquillity in which to practise their austere religion. Yet even the main road thundering along the riverbank, ice cream and souvenir shops can`t obliterate the natural spirituality of this setting. Look at those amazing windows, with so much of their tracery still intact, and find the detail in the stonework of the doors and archways.