Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Thank you. I earned that.
What is Wales Famous For?
- Thread starter Stanley Edwards
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Thank you. I earned that.
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
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putting the tit in titilate
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Are you trying to make me cry!
Have you been there? I found it very, I dunno, atmospheric. Sad story.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I have been there a few times. I agree about the atmosphere. It is a bit of a strange place, really.
A flat rive plain surrounded by cliffs. There is definitely a bit of something in the air there.
Are you trying to make me cry!
ennett!
if that was a film or a cartoon i'd be in pieces right now.
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
Yeah went when I was a kid with the school, we did a project (as all welsh kids did!) Always found the story moving!
I spent this afternoon in the company of some Osasuna fans today. Great bunch. Haven't a clue where, or what Osasuna might be, but I'm going there. My sort of folk. And, they knew all about Wales. Or, at least they knew about Ryan Giggs.
Strange times we live in. Ryan Giggs is Wales!
He is a bit good mind.
Strange times we live in. Ryan Giggs is Wales!
He is a bit good mind.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I doubt this Stanley, as you've been to the city from where they come.
Seriously good bunch of folk, but I am totally clueless. Forgot to ask.
Please tell
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I've only been there once, but yes definitely something in the air, it's a shivery place. There's a river and bridge at the bottom iirc? Ashamed to say it, but I didn't know the legend until afterwards - or at least, I hadn't connected it to a real place iyswim. My gran (who was originally from Blaenau Ffestiniog) gave me a proper rendition when I was describing it a few weeks later.
As a result of that trip I started donating to a National Trust Snowdonia project about clearing rhododendrons. They look lovely in flower, but we saw so many of them ... now they are a spooky plant when the flowers aren't distracting you.
I'd have loved that sort of project as a kid. The best we got in SE London was a trip to see the dinosaur bones.
does Aphex consider himself Welsh? being born in Ireland and growing up in Cornwall...
has he ever even played in Wales?
Sorry to break your hearts but the Gelert story is made up - by a Victorian landlord trying to drum up some more trade for his hotel... I was told that story by Taid and it broke my heart too.
Similarly, Llanfair PG was also a made-up name to attract gullible tourists to an otherwise non-descript Anglesey village. Once you've looked at the railway sign (the roadsigns all say LLanfair PG), there's ogogoch to see there.
And people wonder how the Welsh got a reputation for fleecing tourists...
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Sorry to break your hearts but the Gelert story is made up - by a Victorian landlord trying to drum up some more trade for his hotel... I was told that story by Taid and it broke my heart too.
Similarly, Llanfair PG was also a made-up name to attract gullible tourists to an otherwise non-descript Anglesey village. Once you've looked at the railway sign (the roadsigns all say LLanfair PG), there's ogogoch to see there.
And people wonder how the Welsh got a reputation for fleecing tourists...
Punalicious
Surely that is the nature of tourism the world over?
Belonging - not the TV series
Earthy humour
Maudlin sentimentality - stuff like Hiraeth (longing)
A liking for drink - our earliest surviving poem celebrates a battle we lose because of a hangover
Passion- stuff like Hwyl (fun)
(this is what the Welsh are famous for)
Wales is probably famous for
Snowdon and surrounding peaks
Imaginative placenames like Bryn Saith Marchog (the hill of the seven horsemen) and, er, Mold
Caerffili Castle (the largest in Europe - we took a lot of taming)
The first million pound cheque (paid for coal, naturally)
The biggest man-made hole in the world (surprisingly, not Connah's Quay but a slate quarry near Bethesda)
Earthy humour
Maudlin sentimentality - stuff like Hiraeth (longing)
A liking for drink - our earliest surviving poem celebrates a battle we lose because of a hangover
Passion- stuff like Hwyl (fun)
(this is what the Welsh are famous for)
Wales is probably famous for
Snowdon and surrounding peaks
Imaginative placenames like Bryn Saith Marchog (the hill of the seven horsemen) and, er, Mold
Caerffili Castle (the largest in Europe - we took a lot of taming)
The first million pound cheque (paid for coal, naturally)
The biggest man-made hole in the world (surprisingly, not Connah's Quay but a slate quarry near Bethesda)
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Hadn't they even heard of Ian Rush?
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Keith Allen?
Edit: is he English or Welsh? Definitely born in Wales.
Edit: is he English or Welsh? Definitely born in Wales.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Gigsy ain't Welsh. He's from Cardiff.
lewislewis
Lumumba Cymru
How many people outside of Spain have heard of Galicia? 
The silliest accents extant in human history.
poisondwarf
I have a chance...and it is fat.
When I first worked on cruise ships in 1990, the American passengers would say Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey. Ten years later, when I worked on my last one, it was Charlotte Church and Bryn Terfel!
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Last time I went to England they all said Pot Noodle.
Those silly english believe the pot noodle mines are real, bless em.
poisondwarf
I have a chance...and it is fat.
I bet they believe that Mark Watson, who was in the advert, is a real Welshman too!
It is atmospheric, yes. That little town nestled in between those huge valleys gives it a slightly claustrophobic feel, and then THAT story...
Very nice place, though. I went camping there last May. Could have done without the frost in the morning...
