"We Were Shocked!" Americans First Time In Wales 

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Glad you enjoyed Wales, it’s a beautiful place 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’m from England and I feel that no trip to Great Britain is complete without a trip to Wales. Absolutely loved this vlog. I was showing a friend from America around in summer 2019 and she was so impressed that she got to visit two countries after I took her to Wales. I spent many a childhood holiday in Wales and the last family holiday when I was a young teen right before my dad passed away was in Wales and we had the best time and it is one of my vivid memories of time spent with him.

"One of the most beautiful places we'd been to in our lives" is a great compliment to the beauty of our country. Thank you...or Diolch as we say!

You both seemed more relaxed and comfortable in Wales, its great to see outsiders having these experiences

The Llandudno area has some of the oldest prehistoric copper mines in the world. The place is riddled with them. Thousands of years old. God knows when that cave you went into first saw human feet to muddy.

Love, love, love Cymru. I used to live on a tiny island off the Welsh coast called Bardsey, or Ynys Enlli, that was only 1 mile long by half a mile wide. Best 5 years of my life, it was wonderful hearing the sea as you went to sleep with the sounds of seabirds and sheep bleating. Happy days. Wales is bendegedig!

I love Wales. I was lucky enough to spend 6 months in Aberystwyth and it was amazing. I'm from NZ and I'm loving your travels.

You need to explore west coast of Wales beaches are really good. Tenby, Saundersfoot etc.

The Pembrokeshire coast is some of the most beautiful in the UK there also lots of incredible this to see in Wales

I adore you two. By far the nicest and most genuine American reactors on here.

Im going to say that of what a see here I am very confused of why nobody talks about Wales?? Its something of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. I'm from Sweden and Chile and those two countries together with Norway are the most beautiful places I know. Wales is now on that list. I almost cried watching this video. So beautiful. Must go there!

I live about 10 miles from Llandudno im glad you enjoyed your time there . im biased but Wales is Beautiful and happy to shsre it with the world .

So glad you saw how beautiful Wales is! A lot of tourists outside the UK don't visit North Wales but as you saw it is stunning. If you ever get the chance, Anglesey is also beautiful.

Some years ago my father was terminally ill and we took him on a final trip to his birth place in Wales. We visited the Elan Valley and my father walked for a while and said it was the most beautiful place he had seen in his life. When you spend time with someone so ill you start to see through their eyes. The colours were so vivid and it was a wonderful time for us. Later a work colleague had to make a business trip and asked me for directions. I deliberately directed him though the Elan Valley. When he returned he thanked me and said my father had been right. For years he had not visited Wales because he had thought it was just an industrial area and hadn't believed me when I had told him that it was possibly the most beautiful part of the UK. He had immediately booked a two week trip with his equally sceptical girlfriend to introduce her to Wales.

So glad you had the opportunity to experience our beautiful land. We live just 45 minutes away from Llandudno and I suppose we take it for granted. Thank you for your video, reminding me how blessed I am to live in North Wales with such magnificent scenery right on my doorstep xxx

I’m from wales, and I feel like when you live here you take things for granted, you don’t realised how beautiful it really is

Wales is a magical place for sure. So much beautiful coastline but even inland it’s just gorgeous

It's been lovely having you two in our beautiful and diverse countries and seeing things again through your eyes 😁

The sheep are owned by the local farmers. But the goats are fully wild and are checked and cared for by the local rangers who look after the Great orme. sometimes the goats will wander down into town. There are clips of them on youtube wandering round the streets of llandudno.

Wales is stunning. All of it but personally I really don't think there is anywhere at all better than the Pembrokeshire south coastline of Wales. You could easily spend a whole holiday just in Wales and love all of it.

Watching this has made me incredibly homesick, left Wales nearly two decades ago and not a day goes by where I wished I never left. Glad you got to enjoy it however.

This was so lovely to watch. I’m from Manchester, UK and I’ve always enjoyed trips to Wales. It’s truly beautiful ❤️ x

This brought back memories 😍. It was 20 years ago me and my sister went to Wales. Our Dad was married to a woman from Wales, and we went visit our stepbrother who lived there. We did so many fun things: going to pubs, sightseeing in Cardiff, went swimming in Swansea - but the most cherished memory is when we took a tour ride by horse in those BEAUTIFUL mountains (on our way down I sometimes feared for my life 😂 but it was still beautiful). We had lunch at a pub, we tied up the horses outside and went in for a meal 😂 - fantastic! I’ve been to a bunch of different countries, but this trip I still love the most. I wanted to stay, but unfortunately I decided to go back home to my boyfriend at the time 😕. (I’m Swedish 🇸🇪.)

Croeso I Gymru. Welcome to Wales. The goats you saw on the Great Orme are wild. During the first lockdown the town of Llandudno was so quiet that the goats roamed into town and played havoc with the gardens. It even made the TV news. Glad you’ve enjoyed Wales so far. Glad you are going to see Snowden. Hope you saw Caernarfon and Conwy castles because they were so close to the road..

Thing is, it’s unfortunate really that tourists to the UK tend to stick to the cities and usually only give Wales and Scotland a day it two, really with us being an island there is stunning coastline all around the UK it would be hard to choose which was the best. I think you can only pick your favourite cause it maybe holds memories of childhood holidays or something but I’d find it impossible to choose a favourite based on how stunning the views are etc because there are so many stunning areas.

Wales is stunning! I'm English, but Wales is gorgeous!

So glad you guys enjoyed Wales so much, North Wales has been my playground for the last 72 years, I still ride a motorcycle through Snowdonia on a regular basis, the views never get old. To think you guys came from the vastness of America but we’re still able to see the enchantment in little Wales was great, I hope you enjoyed the rest of your stay in the UK

Wales really is beautiful. My ancestors are of Welsh descent and I've traveled quite a bit around it. Glad you enjoyed your time there and I knew you were going to enjoy it.

With all the jumping and climbing and playing on the beach you were like a couple of big kids - in the best possible way. It was delightful to see when you're used to people around you taking it all for granted.

As an Island the UK is surrounded by such scenery. Cornwall is awesome, and the beaches of Scotland have to be seen to believed. Interestingly nowhere in the UK is much more than 2 hours from the sea.

I'm originally from Llandudno although we moved away when I was four. We made regular trips back throughout my childhood as both sets of grandparents were there. My sister is now living there again so I'm still a regular visitor. On my mum's side of the family we're related to Richard Hughes who was one of the contractors that built the Marine Drive. My dad's parents lived on the Great Orme and my grandpa used to work on the trams. My dad was an apprentice electrician at the Pier Pavilion Theatre (sadly it burnt down in the 90s) and was later a projectionist at the Savoy Cinema in Mostyn Street (where KFC is now). My mum was Rose Queen of Llandudno in 1950. The same year there was a train crash in nearby Penmaenmawr and my Taid (grandfather), a local policeman, was one of the first on the scene. He later received a commendation from the King.

The UK has a lot of amazing coastal areas all around. I live in the north east of England and we have some great cliff walks looking out over the sea and rocks. So glad you enjoyed it so much.

I used to live in the Conwy Valley and work in Llandudno. My commute to work was along the River Conwy. I left North Wales 20 years ago so this is a real trip down memory lane for me. A truly beautiful part of the world. Years ago you used to be able to get a ferry from Llandudno Pier to the Isle of Man, unfortunately no more. It was a rough crossing but well worth the trip x.

Your best video yet! This is what traveling is all about. I drove along the Welsh coast checking out as many castles as I could find in 2012, it is just beautiful! Loved you sharing that.

If you ever visit Wales again, you need to come to the Isle of Anglesey, we are blessed with such beautiful coast ❤️

As mentioned in an earlier comment you both seemed to be very relaxed in Wales. 🤩. Ethan had a smile from ear to ear.😁

I’m so pleased you loved Wales, so many people visiting the UK stick to London, Edinburgh, Bath etc but Wales is the most beautiful place you’ll ever see! The coast line is stunning and the mountains are epic! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💕

As an Englishman Wales is an amazing place. If I could I'd move there tomorrow.

Am glad you enjoyed my home country of Wales. Next time you come- make sure you visit Gower is South Wales. If you loved these views - you will love it.

Pembrokeshire coast line is fantastic and always a warm welcome.

I'm from East Yorkshire and when we were kids, in the 1970s, my Dad used to drive the family over to Wales for our annual Summer holiday. We visited loads of beautiful places and one beach in particular holds v fond memories for me - Mwnt. You should check it out, it's a truly magical place x

Hi guys , I've just got back from my holiday in Wales, our site we stayed in was camarthen bay pembrokeshire, loved it the beaches were stunning and I even swam in the sea , I drove to Wales from South East England where I live it took just over 4 hrs . 🙂

If you liked the Welsh cost line you should check out Cornwall

Wales is so lovely as are the people, unfortunately for you guys you didn’t go to the right coast of Scotland that has a huge amount of lochs, mountains and some of the most stunning scenery in the world. You really missed out. I hope you got to enjoy beautiful Wales.

Those sheep will belong to a farm, just put to graze and wander. Wales is stunning, the Highlands of Scotland is stunning too

Those sheep probably belonged to a farmer. It's not uncommon in many parts of the UK for sheep to roam the countryside (which is why it's important to leave gates as you find them, i.e. if it's shut before you go through it, then shut it again behind you). They usually have coloured markings, a bit like they've been shot with a paintball gun, that indicate whose sheep they are. Sometimes they have numbered ear tags as well which identify individual sheep.

So glad you enjoyed your time in beautiful Wales.

Guys, I'm so pleased you loved Wales! It's my country and she's absolutely perfect, you're quite right! Next time you have to travel down to the Pembrokeshire Coast. If you think that was beautiful, you ain't seen nothing yet! The Gower is definitely another place you should plan to stop at next time you visit! It has the status of Most Outstanding Natural Beauty. Please come again, we welcome you with open arms!! 😊💜

Pacific Coast Highway California, The Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia, and so many roads around the coasts here in the little UK. Bigger is not always better it seems.

Glad you enjoyed our Beautiful country. Make sure you come back to see the rest of Wales 👍

After a long, hard, exhausting day at work it is a joy to put all life's woes to one side and envelope myself in calmness watching this amazing couple being so natural and living life to the fullest exploring new places and activities. Such good role models.

I love Llandudno! I actually stayed there a couple of days with my mother when she visited the UK in 2005. We took photos at the top of the Orme and explored the thousands of years old copper mines. I still like to look in every time I visit Conwy Castle. North Wales is very old in terms of human history but it still feels like civilisation is a recent and superficial thing.

York and Llandudno have some fantastic memories for me. So glad you got to see places such as these rather than just London. I know a lot of people look down on the Welsh North Coast as being a bit tired and run down (to be polite) and Llandudno has a reputation for being an old people's town but there's some great stuff there still. I can't imagine ever getting bored of Llandudno. I have a great memory of being on Llandudno pier, very late at night, caught in an incredible storm out to see that slowly moved inland over the pier. You could literally feel it under your feet as it rumbled overhead. Such a strange joyful exhilarating experience.

Ahh I'm a Welshman living in London. I need to get back home more!

I'm Welsh was a beautiful Country I'm proud to be Welsh.

Random point, but I like how he's wearing a City of Chicago hoodie while the band Chicago is playing in the background at 4:00.

The foundation you found on the great orme could have been part of the old military base that was once on there during WW2. There's a few scattered across the great orme as well as other historic buildings that date all the way back to the Bronze Age.

If you come again to Wales all the Welsh Coast is beautiful, South Wales has Sandier beaches but also beautiful scenery as has West Wales, Tenby is a must for a beautiful seaside town. The United Kingdom is one larger island and 100s od small ones so nowhere in UK are you further than 100 to 150 miles from the sea. Thank you I have loved watching your adventures. Dioch (the Welsh word for thank you)

I love North Wales - When I was a child, I used to live in Morfa Bychan (near to Porthmadog) with access to the Sea and Snowdonia. We had a beach at Morfa called Black Rock sands and you could swim across the deep water channel out to sand banks at low tide. Happy days! There are so many places (and I will miss as many as I hit) such as Carernarfon, Conwy, Criccieth and Harlech castles, the towns such as Porthmadog, Portmeirion, Blanau and Beddgelert and the scenery such as Llanberis Pass, Snowdon and so on. My own "hidden gem" was Trawsfynydd, I spent loads of time up there camping.

Well done for driving in a foreign country on the wrong side of the road and getting from York to Llandudno. You both looked very happy and relaxed exploring muddy caves, clambering over rocks and skipping down hillsides. Hope you got a chance to see even more of Wales; it's a beautiful country, and like Ireland there's an obvious reason it's so green x

Hey guys, I used to work in Llandudno in my teenage years! Its ana amazing place with so much to do. There are many ways to get to the top of the great orme either walking, by the Victorian funicular tramway or cable car gondola. There are many things to do at the top including a cafe and a museum. Activities half way down the orme to the northwest side facing conway there is a copper mine and zip wire, also a tribute to lewis carol the quthor of alice in wonderland who was born in Llandudno. Llandudno has two stunning beaches on both sides of town. Driving round the orme, if you take binoculars march tomay you will see pods of dolphins and porpoise swimming. Lovely video, I long to go back soon.

I love the Great Orme, its the first thing I do whenever I go to Llandudno. Its a limestone hill, it's like part of the southern peak district, but surrounded by the sea.

If you ever get to go back to Wales, visit Pembrokeshire. Specifically, Tenby. On a summers day it's like being in the tropics. The water is so blue and clear. It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen.

I'm from England 🇬🇧 and I love going to Wales in are caravan 🚐 .it has to be the best place .

So glad you liked Wales. It truly is a wonderous place, full of beautiful sights. When you mentioned Jellyfish my mind immediately went back to the time I was swimming in the sea and a Jellyfish went up the leg of my swim shorts and stung me at the top of the leg and my testicles. Ouch was very much NOT the word I said.

Wales is my ancestral home, I visit every year I am so glad you enjoyed it.

Wales is where we go on weekend holidays from north west England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 my go to place. Love it

Wales is so beautiful. I love the Pembrokeshire coast and Sandersfoot has the most beautiful beach. Lots of gorgeous spots actually and lovely people on the whole.

Wales is incomparable, and Llandudno is excellent. Glad you enjoyed it.

The Great Orme is one of my favourite places. We spent a long weekend in LLandudno earlier this year - I have a photograph of the goats roaming the streets!

I love Wales my dad was from there always had our holidays there in Llandudno as a child then my family in conway renting the later a caravan my children loved it x.

Good Visits. Bodnant Gardens - Drive up the Conway valley from Conway. Also Port Meirion - an Italianate village on the coast. Also the slate mines up in the mountains. There is the worlds fastest ziplane up there as well. Or the Snowdon Mountain railway.

As an Englishman I’ve got to say I Love Wales ❤. Get over as often as I can. Just slowly driving the coast roads. A stopping wherever something grabs attention. Did you spot any Dolphins?

I'm from Wales. It's great to see you enjoying the scenery here. I look forward to seeing your video of Snowdonia :)

We lived in Llandudno for around 10yrs, have lived along the coast there for much longer than that. North Wales is beautiful especially the coast line. We live in a small village, still in North Wales, but in the Snowdonia area now, it's as pretty inland as coastal. It has probably been said in the comments, but the hard foundations on the great orme were where gun emplacements were in ww2, there was a military barracks around the other side as you leave marine drive, just foundations now, but was quite an important place for trialing different wartime things out on the sea etc there. Was the 'Rest & Be Thankful' cafe open on the top ? we knew the owners some time back, probably in new hands now. Lovely place to just relax have a pot of tea, teacake or whatever. Lost count of the times we went around the orme, you can get a year pass, doesn't cost that much, also in winter you can just drive around no charge. It is a lovely place, but there are hundreds of places like that in North Wales, many are much more beautiful, its a land of beauty.

Cave was probably used by smugglers hundreds of years ago, smuggling contraband from shipwrecked ships or organised smuggling...rum! To get goods off beach covertly through tunnels of the beach as the King's Guard soldiers would patrol the coastline looking for smugglers who were failing to pay tax on smuggled goods to the King, you could be imprisoned or hanged for snuggling!! The novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier is a classic masterpiece about these historic smuggling times, it's a fantastic Adventure - Romance, she a truly great writer!!🙏💙❤️

Love driving down to Wales. I really recommend you guys checking out Harlech castle. It's beautiful, and if you're not used to seeing castles around, it's definitely a must visit.

Wonderful place. I used go go there often as a youngster with my grandad . Wales is lovely , we often drove there from Manchester✨

I've enjoye all your videos, particularly the UK trip, but this is the one where you are clearly having the most fun :-)

There was a lot of copper mining in and around the Great Orme at Llandudno in the Bronze age. It was exported mostly to Ancient Greece.

You did really well driving yourselves 👍 I live on the coast I think walking along the piers and being near/seeing the sea is very calming - a good start to the day 💙 At least you can do a voice over when the sound is lost - better than losing vision 👍

I love north Wales, beaches, castles and snowdoina and beautiful scenery all around 🙂

After a trip to Ireland where I was born. I got off the Ferry at Holyhead and was told we wouldn't be able to get back to London by train that night. I went for a run the next morning and fell in love with the place. I have been trying to move there ever since. Absolutely love Wales.❤

It's years since I was last in Llandudno but absolutely adored the place. Great base for walks, beach and general chilling but also places to go if it's wet.

Love Wales. Such a beautiful place. Thanks for the video, makes me want to plan my next trip there! 😍

North Wales/Snowdonia in my favourite place in the UK. I'm glad you chose to visit! So green and pretty, and has a magical feel when the weather is good.

If you want beaches them think about visiting Australia. There are thousands of them with pure sand and the Great Ocean Road in the state of Victoria is spectacular. I have visited Wales, the land of my ancestors, and plan to visit again soon, and meet more of my cousins there. I love the Welsh countryside and love meeting and hearing the Welsh people with their sing-song, beautiful Welsh language. They are the true Britons.

I made a comment recommending the area, but maybe you didn't see it. The town of Conwy, quite close to Llandudno, has won many tourism awards. If you visit again, it's well worth a look.

Wales is a beautiful part of the world, my home for 10 years. Llandudno and Conwy are great and seeing you running around like a couple of kids was good to see. I'd always recommend a holiday in Wales - but you need to get in that sea.

I live 10 mins away from Llanudno and I run around Marine Drive on a regular basis. It's great to see you guys enjoying this wonderful area of the world.

During the Covid lockdown the goats decided that foraging in people's gardens and window-boxes in Llandudno was much more fun than grazing the windy Great Orme. And in days gone by, you could have caught a day-trip steamer to the Isle of Man from that pier.

Welcome to our beautiful country!

The reason for the long piers around Britain is that before the advent of the motor car all transport on land was by horse or horse-drawn carriage. It was often quicker to go round the coast by boat but the size of boat meant a harbour or something where the boat could moor in deeper water .So piers stretching out to sea were built ,the passengers would alight then walk along the pier to the land. Of course ,once there were cars the piers became obsolete for that purpose and became a local tourist attraction ,with games ,rides and sometimes a small theatre at the sea end .

Hi Guys, really enjoyed that, as I said before next time in Wales come further south, check out a video called "TENBY Wales | FULL TOUR from beach to town, castle and harbour!" on RU-vid. It is our fave place to go to. Its only 45 mins from our home but we stay there maybe 4 times a year, its so magical.

Wales is the most beautiful country on Earth, the air alone feels purer.

I remember climbing up the Orme and seeing Blackpool tower through binoculars

"I was really tempted a look over the cliff, but I really dont wanna die" - complete agreement, I always think I'm gonna go right to the edge, then the danger of plunging down onto rocks brings me back to my sense!!! You did good, braver than me

There's a 1970's tv play called "Our Day Out" about a group of Liverpool schoolchildren visiting Conwy. Well worth watching.

I'm so glad you came to Wales and got to see a piece of my beautiful country