Thanks for your great video, could watch all over again! Isolated at the moment with covid feeling a bit under the weather and your video has certainly cheered me up. Keep up the good work, love your video's 🤗 xx
My own country gives me eyegasms and I've explored less than 50% of it. I have to step off my own doorstep a lot more. Tenby is my go-to place, but your videos of Wales definitely give me the motivation for change next summer, I had to subscribe.😍
Thank you for such an interesting walk round Conwy. We visited twice, it by train, so missed a bit of the town you show in this video. The castle is impressive and I found Plas Mawr a fascinating building. Add the estuary and other points of interest and there is plenty to draw you back to lovely Wales. And you chose such a beautiful day!
CONWY Conwy is probably the best-preserved medieval fortified town in Britain. The frowning bulk of Edward's great castle, dominating the bridges across the Conwy estuary, makes an unforgettable composition. There are three bridges: Telford's elegant suspension bridge, now used by pedestrians, Robert Stephenson's tubular railway bridge, and the graceful modern road bridge. Conwy Castle was started by Edward I in 1283, as were Caernarfon and Harlech, but it was here that Edward established his headquarters during his campaigns against the Welsh Prince Llewelyn, and he was himself besieged here by the Welsh in 1290. The siting of this fortress upon a narrow ledge of rock was dictated by its unusual shape. It was completed in under 5 years at a cost of £15,000 which at today's values would be about £4,500,000 making it by far the most expensive of Edward's castles. On Conwy's quayside is what is said to be the smallest house in Britain, measuring just 6 ft. across and 10 ft. 2 in. to the top of its upper storey.
Absolutely lovely video showing one of my home towns, I just live over the bridge in a place called Deganwy but was born in Llandudno.... Go to Conwy most days..Thank you so much for sharing this
Thanks yet again for infighting more memories, We visited Conwy for the only time 50 years ago almost to the day. I was a passenger in a nasty car crash in 1970 and if seat belts had been compulsory would have been killed as the passenger side was totally destroyed, I was ejected through the windscreen and spent 7 months in hospital as a result. I tried to get dates with some of the nurses but they weren’t interested but one did get me a date with a woman from the hospital reception / records department. After one date she passed on a rematch but wrote to me later to set up a date with a colleague, we met and went to the see a film, Get Carter. This was a bit near the knuckle in 1971 and when we went for a drink afterwards she told me she was a Methodist Sunday school teacher and I thought that was it. I asked if we could meet again and to my relief she said yes, it really was love at first sight for me, we were engaged in 3 months and set the wedding date 12 months later. Back to Conwy, we had put a deposit on a house being built in the village where I lived and were choosing household things including a cooker from the local gas showroom. They dithered re delivery for our September wedding so when we had a trip to Conwy and saw the same cooker in the their gas showroom enquired if they could deliver it to Kirkheaton, they said they could and after cooking on a Gaz single stove for a couple of weeks after we moved into our new home it was delivered and fitted. We are still in the same house where we brought up 3 wonderful sons and in September celebrate our Golden Wedding.
Went last September and will be going again this September. Hopefully we will get into the Castle this time. By the way that Knight shop at the end of your video is amazing. Truly a beautiful place!
Being a tad generous on £4800 a month on the smallest house in Britain if it was located in London 🤣🤣🤣. I was waiting for a little Hobbit to appear out of that house. Is that house actually being lived in or is it just for show? How can anyone live in there it's sooooo tinyyyy 🤣🤣. Great video, Wales is a beautiful place one place I haven't been but would love to visit. 👍👍
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