North Wales: Feisty and Poetic 

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@@GethinElwyn Mae'n hyfryd iawn. Rydw i eisiau symud yno gyda fy nghariad un diwrnod. (Sorry I’m still learning Welsh)

What's the language?

@@har5814 Seriously ?

@@bgggsht Sorry. Just knew Welsh is a different language.

im english and i go to Snowdonia a few times a year, its definetly one of the most beautiful locations in the united kingdom

Wales is underrated. I don't understand why it's not talked about as much.

@@tameriajones593 Probably because the tourist boards in both England & Scotland really push their identity and country. Also, the Scottish and English governments are working with a much larger budget, resulting in a more international recognition of their countries. Just ask any foreign tourist, which major cities they visited on their travels. London and Edinburgh come top of the list, Cardiff comes a distant destination. Both England & Scotland are recognised around the world as having their own unique identity, but even though Wales is a separate nation of the United Kingdom, the majority of foreign visitors mistakenly assume Wales is part of England. This is why Wales is a not as popular as England or Scotland

Welsh tourist board dont push to advertise Wales its a gem thats why

I loved hiking in Snowdonia. The hospitality in Wales is wonderful. I forgot to mention how beautiful are men choirs. It was incredible.

If you listen to the way the Elvish people speak in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, you will hear the influence of Welsh. J.R.R. Tolkien described the Welsh Language as the loveliest of all the Languages.

they seen so proud and happy

@@mm.7053 Yes and they proudly fly the welch flag, and not that union jack poor excuse for a flag that only the elite tend to be happy with...

People also say that to our local language when we speak.

@@garethwynnvernon6329 Was he deaf ???

Hey, how are you and the weather there?

Exactly! If I were there I would hug him. Sweet man.

He made a valiant attempt at most of the place names

you could have just facetimed with them

I'm Mexican but I think my ancestors were Welsh

@@trashcantacos Hasta le cantamos Las Mañanitas a un local en el pub.

@@ernestolombardo5811 Como debe de ser :)

Wow, talk about passion

toledo marcos please I want to go to Wales. But I don't have any body the

It is. It is full of green open lands, valleys, hills. A lot of natural beauty.

@@Fibsh6963 My Wifes family are from Swansea. They say if you look across the Severn estuary and you can see the Somerset coast, it's going to rain. If you can't, it already is.

@Griffith Williams Exactly

@@Fibsh6963 You're calling a drought nice?

That's so cool! I'm also Hawaiian and Welsh🤙🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@phonk_muffin Wow!!!!! We’re awesome! 😂

​@@KG-fw5wk Man how crazy is that😅, hopefully one day I'll visit Wales. I remember learning a little hawaiian and welsh and I found them to be similar because of how few people speak them. It would be sad to see such beautiful languages go extinct so I'm learning them to keep it alive ❤

I’m a Hawaiian too, and I just went to Wales last week! Like Hawaii, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.

@@jonahwillis2781 That's so cool!

and there are special and beautiful areas all over Wales!!

I hope the Welsh have something that I am looking for and when I tried to find something in the United States I could not find anything. Wales is the best.

Hi! I truly wanna know about Welse. I was searching on internet. Wanna know that or Rishi Sunak also your PM? Or Walse is a seperate country ? How you people see London? As a city of another country ??? I know about the England, great Britain n UK thing but still its lil confusing... also, I love your language. If I'll come to UK, I'm sure gonna visit Wales. But For now, much love from India. 🇮🇳

Many spend their honeymoon in the Caribbean, Bora Bora, Seychelles, etc. my husband and I chose the wonderful North Wales🌞

I would like to come Wales with family

awww... great place!😃

I hope you get to visit Wales if not already. That ticket must feel very precious

That's awesome!

That's amazing! Crazy that you still have the ticket!!! Such a PRECIOUS SENTIMENT,SENTIMENTAL TREASURE!

1863? The Wild West was still.....Wild

Do it! Flights are not too expensive and accommodation is very cheap in Wales

@@123Coffs Thank you Richard, but I live half a globe away, different world, but I keep my dream..

@Spiritual Nature somewhere in South East Asia

@Spiritual Nature neither

@Spiritual Nature South East Asia

Thats a problem in parts of the u.s. as well. Here in the southeast Atlanta siphons off huge amounts of water from various rivers and reservoirs. In drought summers lots of small communities have to make drastic conservation efforts to keep the ever expanding atlanta metro monsters taps flowing. It's also severely affected the oyster and other aquaculture industries in the Florida panhandle estuaries bc they depend on a proper mix of fresh water from the rivers mixing with salt water to sustain life. Atlanta uses so much river water from the Chattahoochee and other rivers that it's all but wiped out oyster farming and fishing in these estuaries.

Exactly right friend. Wales has only to cut off the water to the English to hear them squeak

Welsh will always be in.

He left behind some cool castles!

We're not British we are Cymru. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I appreciate all your efforts rick in your showcase of europe. Now i can travel virtually in europe thru your videos. Thank you i get a glimpse of europe.

@@MrCymru thats apart of Britain

@@MrCymru wales is apart of the uk

@@MrCymru We are British

Oh, you should go! My daughter and I visited Wales a few years ago and it was marvelous. She kept saying, "I can't get my head around how old everything is!" We visited a school that was founded by Henry VIII. It had been a monastery and when he closed them down, he had this particular one changed to a school for the area. We want to go back, we didn't see nearly enough!

@@vahodgins Ysgol Friars?

Oliver Lewin 2 years ago As an Englishman living in the midlands, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I spend a few days there every year. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.

werlafe The point being ??

ভাই,চলে আসেন,আমি north wales থাকি

The castle's look amazing

⁠@@thomasodoyo6207 ভাইয়া আমি wales আসতেছি, আমাকে থাকতে দিবেন কয়দিন? ওখানে পরীক্ষা দিতে যাব কিছুদিন পর, MRCPsych ….

Oliver Lewin I'm with you on that one. As a child in the 60s and 70s I had many a happy time in North Wales. Think that's why I still love it.

@peace leader I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but just to be safe... no. Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England all form the UK, none of them are provinces (well, except perhaps NI... that's complicated, and I'm not going in to it). There is no such thing as 'England' in terms of political power (i.e. there's no English parliament, only a British parliament containing representatives from the whole UK), so by definition the other three can't be provinces, since a province is a place managed or owned to some degree by an external political power. There is no English political body which is capable of claiming or exerting ownership. However, it is true that England has a much higher population than the other three constituent countries of the UK, so it has more representatives in parliament. This is what people mean when they say things like "England controls the UK" - its not a case of England exerting unfair or undue political power over the other parts of the UK (since, again, there is no political English body capable of exerting that power), its simply that its higher population elects so many MPs that England, taken as a whole, has the most influence over British law. If Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had a higher population, there'd be more MPs in parliament from those places. In any case, that's why many non-English people feel particularly oppressed or ignored by Westminster (perhaps they even feel like an English province), because their separate national interest doesn't have equal representation in parliament. Obviously, whether you accept that depends on your point of view. Personally, I don''t feel that being English gives me any particular advantage, since I'm more concerned with how many MPs agree with my views, not where they're from. And at the moment, my views are particularly underrepresented in parliament. But that's just my perspective, I'm not saying that separatists and nationalists don't also have a valid point of view.

@peace leader Yeah I think it should. I'm very much in favour of federalism. We should replace FPPT with PR, keep the commons as based on constituency population, but also have a second chamber where each home nation has equal representation.

@peace leader try again

@@monkeymox2544Westminster is very much English Parliament. It is entirely pointless for us to even be represented in it. Independence is the only way forward for us, because England and its Parliament does not care about us and should have zero say in our affairs.

Helo o sir fôn gogledd cymru. Hello from anglesey north wales

I imagine Arizona is quite beautiful as well, if a little hotter and drier lol.

Thankyou joshua ,diolch yn fawr

Hey, how are you and the weather there?

Buy a ticket 🎟 and go visit then

@@sianwarwick633Um, did you catch the fact I'm a tightwad? Only I was just diagnosed with state 3 esophageal cancer so if I survive the treatment, I may be treating myself to some of the places Rick Steves has chronicled.

Yes, Welsh settlers arrived in Patagonia in the 19th century and descendants speak Welsh, with people from Wales and Patagonia visiting each other.

Wales!

The chapel in Caernarfon has a plaque on it's wall to memorialise the first Welsh settlers in Patagonia who were members of the chapel.

The Luoji Person I lived in wales for 2 years

I lived there until I was 2. I don't remember much, jus there where a lot of sheep and mountains

+Coolhand Luke I've lived in Wales all my life. It quite calm, if you go to a English city it's quite frightening, especially if you live in a small town like me you don't get to see a building any taller than 3 storey.

+David Evans Too true, spent most my life in Caernarfon and now i'm studying at the university of Essex. Took me a long time to adjust to the big city.

GwionB9 Exactly, its so fast pace. The city is not for me but my brother loves it.

Lamiye Maahmudova Thank you for your kind appreciation of my country.

Yes thanks for the amazing comment on where I live, wouldn’t change it for the world. It is a lovely place living in Wales.

I love Welsh too and would try to learn the language.

Glad To Hear That! I Am From India Too, Could You Please Tell Which Region Are You Talking About?

The introduction of Presbyterian Church to us the Khasi people of Meghalaya comes from Wales😊

@@suyamchaturvedi Meghalaya I guess😊

Helo o Gymru

That's interesting, as I went to college in West Virginia at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and I was told the actual Appalachian Mountains were just east of the border of West Virginia and the actual mountain chain in eastern West Virginia are actually the Blue Ridge Mountains?

Texas Hi-Railer The Blue Ridge Mountains are just a region of the Appalachian Mountain Chain. They had it opposite though. Most of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in "western" Virginia with only a very small amount in West Virginia.

Travis Williams there is a town in England about ten miles from Wales called Shrewsbury.

You have to keep in mind West Virginia was part of Virginia untill the American Civil War when it split off. The blue ridge mountain (which is just a section of the Appalachian) is the western side of Virginia, farther west its elevated into the alleghany applachain plateau (mountain country) of west virginia. It is in these two mountain and valley lands where the Scots, Irish, and Welsh settled.

Dan L. My family settled in what is the "New River Valley" where I currently reside as well. I don't know this for sure but I suspect they were coal miners in wales and thus became coal miners in the new country.

Welsh, not Welch ! Actually I call myself a Cymro & we are Cymry

Hi do you have Facebook

Thank you- that is unusual for a Brazilian to have Wales in his heart

Bom dia, Victor, good to see you again!

@@Kaibigan39 olá. Desculpe, mas não estou lembrando de vc. Vc é do Brasil?

Will Ward too busy with your sheep

Hello... can you send pictures of secenry of your country.

Hey, how are you and the weather there?

Visit India. Beautiful in cultural and traditional and various things - Joshua

Liverpool is in England

@@darrenlamb5640 only just

My Great great grandfather Owen Jones used to run a public house in Beddgelert.😊😊

Hello lady... greetings from Pakistan

I'm from Bangor.😊

@IM KHAN they looted us too you crank no your history rich elites looted you the same rich elites that where building torture devices to rip out our innards in front of our eyes way before they looted you incase you didn't notice they just upped and left us too but unlucky you we rebuilt ourselves we didn't sit about crying about it being the victims

@Davos exactly.

me too

Celtic no , Vales is caucasian people

I'm actually surprised at how much Cornish i can understand. I speak welsh so theyre very similar sure, but its really cool none the less.

Wales is certainly Celtic- land of the ancient Brythonic people, linked to the Cornish and Bretons in Brittany. Historically with darker hair and complexions than the Anglo-Saxons/ English from Germany who invaded Welsh-speaking Britain and called the land they took England

@The505Guys Unfortunately, you guys have become just as anglo as the rest of them. Wiped out by the rich English holiday homes and migrants

@The505Guys That's the exact same for Scotland too, tbh. Cornwall is literally more Celtic than Scotland is.

What a beautiful country ! I love stradford up on Avon and Greenmere in the Lake district and Scotland for William Shakespeare' William Wordsworth and T S Elliot . So beautiful and implanting creation of divinity .

0 a1s,

You missed out Llangollen and Beaumaris!

Hi can we be friends please

Hey, how are you and the weather there?

@@frankrobert4897 hi I'm well. Raining

@@lindajones8895 Wow, it’s also rainy and cold here

@@lindajones8895 I’m from Houston Texas but currently working here in Dublin, and you?

Agreed!

I think I'll go to Wales to live and then Greece.

Hey, how are you and the weather there?

Not sure if I've ever been newquay

hi English friend ,you all right ?

@@MDBabu-ki4ph English???

jsdprods very good views