OK I'm not Welsh, I'm a Yorkshireman and I bow to no-one about the beauty of my county but Wales is an outstandingly beautiful place which is very well worth visiting! In Truth if I didn't live in Yorkshire I would want to live on the Gower Peninsular. I love it!
I am a Yorkshireman, too and I concur. When people drive all the way to Cornwall for their holiday, I have a smug feeling inside because I go to Southwest Wales - half the distance, just as beautiful, better beaches and a fraction of the traffic/tourists with the same climate/weather.
@user-ev1tl5rf7o 1st generation English on my dad's 'forever' Welsh side, and mam's forever generation Pityakka. I'm proud to be a Pityakka and English, even though I grew up thinking everything was Wales 😇 blame me dad ya nar ❤️ from Northeast England ❤️
Speaking as someone from Dorset, you are correct in saying how beautiful Wales is, all of the UK is exceptional. I love York and Harrogate, and I'm not being a creep saying that 😂
JRR Tolkien said of Wales ,,"Welsh is of the soil , this island , the senior language of the men of Britain .Welsh is beautiful " LOTR was inspired by his love of Wales , saying he studied the Welsh Language so he could understand the history of Britain
Wales is a very small country with a small population. It may not get noticed in the world but in the UK it is definitely not forgotten the other uk countries have a great respect for Wales and the Welsh people.
J R R Tolkien was INSPIRED to write the lord of the rings because of Wales and the Welsh language..his famous quote is "Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful."...🏴❤️🏴
Hi he was heavily influenced by sarehole mill (where he grew up in Birmingham) for the shire and several areas around B'ham. Only saying this because it's where I'm from
@@tonytresigne5929 I know mate; my point was the elven language was inspired by welsh. I know about the influence of your mill; I used to l8ve in sparkhill back in the day lol
I’m Scottish and I find Wales to be such a beautiful country with fantastic people food and architecture. One place not to be missed if you travel to the UK. All the best. Rab
Not sure why Wales is titled underrated because nobody I know views it like that at all it’s a stunning country. And personally I don’t think this video shows anywhere near the best of wales.
Wales is well thought of in England, as is Scotland. I am 78 and have never felt unsafe in the UK, even when as part of my job was to supervise the closure and cash removal of a Post Office, after North London riots in the mid -1980's. Uneasy but not worried, although this was the day after. I can assure you that barbecues in the UK are taken very seriously and as soon as the sun comes out there is the smell drifting across the gardens. You are a lovely family and thank you for your kind comments about my country and UK in general.
It’s not safe anymore as recent events have highlighted. Even in Scotland it’s getting bad with illegal immigrants. I wouldn’t bring my family on holiday here . That young girl stabbed in London is on holiday from Australia.
@@Parker_Douglas I sort of agree, but although terrible, these incidents are isolated and do not reflect how it actually is. The fact that the young girl was from Australia is coincidental as Leicester Square probably has more tourists than locals, as does most of central London.
I married into a Welsh family, I'm of Irish stock. Have 4 grown kids with 'attitude' lol 2 strong Nations. Have spent hours in Aberystwyth, the cemetery is filled with fascinating history too.. 4 years ago at age 68 I climbed Snowden even stayed in the Youth Hostel, they have changed so much from when I was in my teens.. I adore Wales and Ireland too
That aerial shot of the narrow road in the Brecon Beacons segment shows you two very visible ‘passing places’, like scraped out parking slots at the side of the road. You just keep your speed at a sensible level and whoever is closest to a passing place when you meet nose to nose will back up into it and let the other car pass. If you’re driving those roads - which are all over the U.K. countryside - cooperation is the name of the game. A toot on the horn when approaching a blind bend, or a full beam flash of your headlights at night, will alert anyone heading in the opposite direction that you’re there. Aggression doesn’t work, and neither does expecting a tractor or combine harvester to give way! Be patient, slow down a bit if necessary and learn to go with the flow. 😊
Except during the holiday season when the visitors can't reverse to save their lives. Many just sit there with a panicked expression or reverse about 4 feet, hit the hedge and give up. I could go on and on about the lack of reversing ability displayed by visitors to this wonderful part of the UK.
I'm Welsh. I live in North Wales. We have so many things to do here for such a small country. We are a very welcoming nation too. We love people visiting us and we're very friendly. I live in Llanfairfechan and we have people from all over the world here. I know many English who have moved here, Canadians, Norwegians, Scottish. Love this video.
I spent 10 years living in Aberystwyth at university - going on to get a PhD. It’s a wonderful place! Watching the sun set over cardigan bay on a still and clear summer evening is absolutely stunning. And it’s got so many pubs - great for student life!
I was born in London to Welsh/American parents. I have been fortunate to live in various States in the USA. But most off my life I have lived in South Wales, surrounded by the beautiful Gower coastline. Wales has a lot to offer, quirky villages, superb coastline and the most castles in the UK. It is definitely worth exploring ☺️
As a Cardiff(Caerdydd) native, it's great to see you appreciate our wonderful country, we are as passionate about it as well. We do have many many castles, there are three just in Cardiff and they are always worth a visit if you are near.
I don't know why there is a dirty brown filter used on this video. Wales is a very green country, maybe the beacons might have more brown and purple heather but its definately not a parched dead landscape as it is in this video.
I’m Welsh born and bred and I can say that it’s a very green country. I feel he may have filmed most of this a couple of years ago when we had extreme heat (for this country) and most of the U.K. was very brown. I now live in England in a beautiful town called Malvern which is in Worcestershire. If you want to see the land that inspired JR Tolkien you need to visit here as he got his inspiration from the beautiful Malvern Hills. Malvern is a AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty) designated area and you can walk for miles and miles on the hill and get views over the counties of Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Gloucestershure as well as see over to Wales. Also inspired by this area was CS Lewis who wrote the Narnia series. Both these men were good friends. The only criticism I have of the original video is his pronunciation of some of the place names. But apart from that it’s a pretty good video.
There's a host of beautiful places. I live in north Wales and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Some places for you to look up would be: Lake Vyrnwy, Portmeirion village, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy with its castle and the smallest house in the UK. I hope you get a chance to visit this beautiful country.
Wales is very green too, the areas you saw were just marshland covered in marsh plants like heather, gorse, sedums etc. which we have a lot of too, they're plants not grass, when they're in flower they look incredible, the yellow gorse, the purple heather and the sedums are all colours, some so red the hills look like they're on fire! We don't see ourselves as underrated, we like being the cool and lay back quieter celts, we're not loud and brash like all those Gaelic yobs (jk!) 🤣 One story you should check out for sure is Prince Madoc, some genuinely think he discovered America before Columbus, I know there are American's who believe there are Native Americans who speak a variant of Welsh etc.
Welsh singers? Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Duffy, Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Tyler, Mary Hopkin, Aled Jones. Actors and Comedians: Griffin Rhys Jones, Rhod Gilbert, Rob Brydon, Keith Allen, Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale, Greg Davies, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ruth Jones, Terry Jones. Welsh Choirs! The Welsh Coast, the Welsh Hills and mountains, Welsh Sheep and Lamb, Welsh Rarebit, Welsh Faggots (meatballs, Welsh Cakes, Laverbread, Mussels from the Menai straights, Caerphilly Cheese, oggies! Rugby. Wrexham, even Ryan Renolds and Rob McElhenney have heard of Wrexham! Offa's Dyke. Isle of Anglesey. (My Brother-in-law went to Uni there). The Prince of Wales. And of course... Yma o Hyd (still here) by Daffyd Iwan!
Shirley bassey is actually half English and half African, she just lived here in Wales and Christian bale is English not welsh. Both parents are English and he grew up in England, was just born here in Wales.
I spent nearly 10 years, from the age of 5, living in Aberystwyth ( I'm a 71 yr old fart now ) in a house overlooking the harbour on Pen yr Angor road, a dead end road which only goes to a beach. I still visit there, and a small village called Borth, 8 miles North of Aberystwyth, to go fishing from the beach. Always enjoy your TH-cam postings, keep up the good work. You seem to be a lovely family, with 2 really cute kids. Adrian.
@@chrisshelley3027I've only recently noticed (thanks to watching MANY American TH-cam videos!) that a lot of Americans pronounce the "ai" sound as an e. So Craig becomes Cregg, vague becomes vegg, plague becomes plegg...and Wales becomes Wells! The Craig/Cregg one I've always known about, but I never realised it also applies to many similar words. 🤷♂️
I looked into this a little while ago, and it is a feature of certain accents in the US, more so in the South. It bugs the hell out of me! Bloody Hell!
Even the southern most parts of the UK are further north than any part of the US, apart from Alaska, but we have a temperate climate. The sea, or ocean, keeps our islands warm. We don't get extremes of cold or heat that are comparable to parts of the US. The sea isn't that cold for this reason. It is relatively warm because it has come from central America as the "gulf stream". I believe that it is warmer than the ocean in the LA of California when I lived there.
@@lauraholland347 Wales must have been pretty crowded then if everyone from the east were pushed there by invaders. Wouldn't those who were already there object? If course they weren't forced west, they fought back. 'English' Kings didn't take over until nearly 200 years after Roman rule ended. You cannot know that everyone spoke the same language. There were several cultural groups in Britain, & more came during the Roman era. They were not a single ethnic group, but an admixture which became Romani-Britons, at least within the area of the Roman Provinces of Britannia.
@@danielferguson3784 Like with any incursion some resisted, and some didn't, there are always disagreements and skirmishes when people move. The Welsh had their own kings until the high medieval-I think you need to read round the subject a little. There is strong linguistic and genetic evidence for the push west. Of course there were several cultural groups in Britain, but I have never seen anyone showing evidence for the addition of new cultural groups during the Roman period. I never said everyone spoke the same language, but there is strong evidence Welsh is a survivor from the pre Roman period-if there were lots of languages which were not related I would expect Latin to have hung on as a Lingua Franca-which didn't happen.
@@danielferguson3784 Some of the Welsh people moved West during the Anglo-Saxon invasion, but most merged into the new system and adopted the new language. However, pockets of Welsh speakers remained across England until at least the Norman Conquest in 1066.
@@ianbeddowes5362 The people of Roman Britain were not all 'Welsh' as that term did not apply until much later. It is only a lazy assumption that 'Celtic' was spoken throughout Britain, the eastern parts likely always had a majority Germanic speaking population, having migrated from northern parts of Europe since at least neolithic times. Continuing links to that area is shown by the Parisi people of Yorkshire, & the Belgae in the south. The DNA shows a gradient from east to west from German Scandinavian to Celtic which is older than the post Roman era. It is not possible that a major portion of the British population 'fled' to the west at the coming of the Germans, though some migrated to Armorica, causing it's name change to Brittany, that need not have been many. It is unlikely that a substantial indigenous population would have chosen to take up an invaders language, with virtually no trace of their mother tongue. It's much more likely that a large part of the population already spoke a Germanic language that was merely reinforced by the newcomers, who may not have really have been strangers at all, but just more barbarian 'federati' as long employed by Rome. Indeed many thousands of 'Roman' troops in Britain had always been recruited from the German peoples, among others, & this only increased over time. In the latter part of the Roman period such troops were employed under their own tribal leaders rather than being Romanised, becoming little more than mercenaries. So the proto Welsh 'Celtic' language may well have been mostly confined to the western parts of Britain, & Ireland, with areas of admixture between that & the Germanic east. Thus the Celtic languages have mostly always been spoken in the regions where they survive today, but have maybe been lost from a few areas east of Wales in England, but not from the further eastern regions, because they were never the majority language there.
@@danielferguson3784 We were taught in school ( in Wales ) that the Welsh language was the oldest in all of Britain and Europe, and was also spoken in the whole of UK and Europe. When the country was invaded the Welsh were not allowed to speak the language as the invaders couldn’t understand what was being said , also we were told that the language would hold you back from employment etc , and we were treated a little badly, having the Bibles taken away and replaced by English ones. The Welsh have been seen as second class citizens in a lot of of British society.
Ok to confuse things further when we use the term grill it refers to what you call a broiler in your kitchen cooker. Basically anything (except pizza) cooked outside using gas or charcoal is called a bbq in the UK and never grilling. Some people do smoke food but that’s just called smoking and never bbq. My old neighbour, for example, used to smoke fish in his shed using a smoker.
Most Brits don't need a lecture on Wales as we know about this graceful, mystical place. It is only not known to people from abroad that do not research their holiday destinations. The people are so friendly and normaly welcome visiters. I am English and have moved to the welsh boarders at Monmouth, and even on grey wet days, which there are many, it's still worth a long visit.
Check out Midwest Americans. They came to the UK and fell in love with Wales. I can understand why, I love it too. They made some nice videos about their tour. Worth a watch.
Now... Barbecue. This is a method of cooking outdoors over a pit of charcoal. Smoking is not involved. That is a separate process called (wait for it) smoking.
There are videos on how to drive on Britain's narrow country roads. There are areas in Wales great for looking at stars and the milky way as it has designated dark skies areas. Plus alot cheaper than anywhere near London
I m from Romania and i have been liveing in Swansea South Wales for 4 years now and i have to say it worh living here ! You have the sea and the hills so close i love it ! ❤
One thing I love about the UK as a proud Welshman (and proud Brit) is that despite the rivalries between our home nations, we will always declare how beautiful the others are to anyone from outside the UK. Scotland, Northern Ireland and England are all stunning and I love visiting them. But if there's a rugby game on... it's war ⚔️😂
I absolutely love Wales...its many castles....scenery. The one thing I remember though is sadly Aberfan. Mining debris was built up on a hill next to a school. It collapsed in 1966 onto the school killing about 116 children.....Anyway....There's a mountain railway that goes to the top of Snowden mountains!
Tolkien grew up in Birmingham, and this is what inspired most of his writings, places like Sarehole Mill, which was almost opposite his house from the age of 4 to about 8, played and explored there, he had 9 addresses in Birmingham, before his scholarship to Oxford, Sarehole Mill is still open to visitors today, and is around 4 miles from where I live.
Cool video guys, I live in South Wales and there are some incredible places to visit. Luckily I get to walk the dog around places like Margam Castle once a week and often go to Ogmore-by-sea beach which is stunning.
The different grass colours are because they’re different types growing at different heights. Green grass - which Wales is also covered in -,grows mostly at lower lying land whereas the brown types are mountain grasses.
I didn't expect to open up with Aberystwyth. I can see my house in literally the opening shot of this video hahaha. Aber means "mouth" in Welsh and so the name of the town is literally "Mouth of the Ystwyth river". Its a fun town with about a 50/50 split in population between locals and the student population of the university. It also has the National Library of Wales. If you ever were to visit I recommend taking the train to the next town over called Borth and walking back to Aber along the coastal path. Done in good weather this is a medium difficulty hike with absolutely breath taking views.
That was a quick look at Wales, he missed out a hundreds of places as good there are many more beaches that are just as good, plus over 600 castles were built in wale not all are still here but may hundreds are here to explore, the highest number of castles in Europe. Caerphilly castle is the second biggest castle in the UK Only Windsor castle is bigger, Kidwelly castle is well preserved ruin well worth a visit. He missed out on sea side towns as well New Quay, Aberaeron both worth a visit, I am from south west Wales so I know the area well. Try Magenta Otter Travels, they are from the US and well worth a watch try their Escape to Tenby video. Like your videos.
@@Trippingthroughadventures there is a great channel by an American with Welsh heritage. I think it's called "The American Welsh Channel" where he explores his heritage and the history of Wales.
Wales i always feel at home, mum still lives in wales so it a great feeling crossing welsh border the feeling home comes back. never forget one beach i need to ask where it was as want to visit with my camera its like number 2 a long walk down cliffs but it separated by cliffs when tide come in we nearly got trapped on furthest beach area we spent hours down as this stop only seen few people and no one at far end what gets cut off at high tide so remote no town close by you park side country road a walking path through farm land and walk down overgrown cliff path such a stunning place that was in wales, spent a lot my childhood travelling wales inc mos my schools, my mum and uncle also took part in castle shows so very often hook up caravan and travel to next castle, lots very fun enjoyable times in younger years and one day i move back as i do miss my home
I'm welsh but I live on the dark side,(England) my family is linked to the 9 century in west wales,I wish I could live there,but unfortunately not able to.
Hiya,I think you' may have got the wrong impression about Wales and it not being popular, that's completely wrong,Wales is very popular ,so much so in the summer months it's overflowing with tourists and can get overcrowded in some holiday resorts ,it can make life difficult for the locals ,(note before anyone says anything I'm English ) it's beautiful and people are friendly .go visit Wales you'll love it❤❤
Wales, home of my great grand parents, is a beautiful place. We used to go, as a family, every year and never got tired of the beautiful scenery. SUGGESTION for another glimpse of Wales: '3 nights alone in a mountain paradise: wild camping'. Love from the UK
Yes, exactly my comment. We had a severe drought in the UK just prior to the start of the pandemic. I can remember the grass was scorched everywhere (all of London’s royal parks etc), and it hit over 40 degrees on the runway at Heathrow. Ironically, bearing in mind what they just said about Tolkien and LOTR, I worked with a girl at the time who returned permanently to her home country of New Zealand and on arrival sent an email to her ex colleagues. In it, she had the audacity to remark on how she had “forgotten” that it was so much greener than England. It made me cross at the time because it would’ve been winter over there and probably very wet (considering their latitude south of the equator is basically identical to ours north of it), and because I knew it wasn’t true and we were going through a horrendous drought. I mean, the UK is literally famous the world over for its beautiful green hills. 😂😂
I'm from just north of Liverpool and everyone here tends to think of Wales as our back yard. We used to go there virtually every weekend as a kid; and I still go many times a year to our place on the coast Nope, not depriving the locals of housing...I hate that too. It's a truly beautiful place. Fun fact: the A5 is the old London-Holyhead post road., where you'd then take a ferry to Dublin. It starts at Marble Arch in London, but it also ends at an arch...the Admiralty Arch right in front of the old Regency customs house on Salt Island in Holyhead. The old church of St Cybi, overlooking the harbour there gives Holyhead its Welsh name...Caergybi. It's built in the remains of an old Roman fort. Caer = Chester.
It’s funny that you bring up Tolkien and Lord of the Rings etc when looking at the Snowdonia landscape, because the picturesque valleys and river landscapes of Wales, particularly the area around Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia, are thought to have influenced Tolkien’s depiction of Rivendell. The lush, green valleys and riverside vistas bear a resemblance to the descriptions of the Elven refuge, so you were spot on with Rivendell too, The Shire was also influenced by Wales but only partly. You also have the Welsh language which Tolkien based the elvish language of Sindarin on. Welsh was Tolkien’s favourite language, he remarked on the beauty of Welsh, stating that he had “always been fascinated by Welsh,” and went on to describe it as having “an inherent beauty” which made him think it might be “the language of heaven.” He also said “Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful; and much more important than either of the ‘kinds’ of English, as a matter of literary tradition and historical association. And it has a beauty, even when not singing, that does not depend on a long and varied literary tradition.” He also said “I love Wales - and especially the Welsh language. I loved it before I knew it. The beginning of the desire to write poetry was the desire to translate poetry out of the tongues I admired and liked into English words that had the same effect. I was enormously attracted by the languages of early Europe, especially those of the Celts; and none seemed to me more attractive than the Welsh. I felt a certain distaste for Anglo-Saxon…. Welsh is a magic language - full of allusions of Welsh bards that were very dear to me.” He also described it as “like stained glass seen against the light, and capable of such a tremendous variety of effects. Some but not all of these qualities may be shared by its remote offspring, English; but at an immense distance they are there native and proper, the language of a people to whom ‘we’ and ‘our’ apply, however widely branched in the world the branches may grow.”
Wales is beautiful....ive literally just moved to mid wales.....however...im British/Irish ....im born and bred in Northern Ireland. We are only known by many for the Troubles....its one of the most stunning countries in the UK....but many people dont realise we are part of the UK...😢😢😢
For its size, Great Britain has very diverse landscapes. From the rugged mountains of the Scottish Highlands and Snowdonia to the rolling hills of Devon , the Yorkshire Dales, the dramatic cliffs , coves and beaches of Cornwall, the waterways of the Norfolk Broads, and southern chalk pastures and picturesque southern villages. And then there are the medieval cities, like York, Chester and Canterbury, with their magnificent cathedrals . And nowhere is more than a two hour drive from the sea.
Aberystwyth beautiful town I lives there for 24 years vale of rheidol Railway up to Devils Bridge passing through some beautiful scenery. I lived on a little estate in comins coch called Bronquinau I have 2 sisters still living there. I highly recommend paying a visit, the cliff Railway is excellent and over the other side of the cliff (there's a public path) is Clarach Bay caravan camping site
No, - if anything, Wales is more green than England. But after the dry season, it turns brown like that everywhere. But not this year - the jet stream has been unusually further south than normal, this year.
Portmeirion should have been on that list. Famous as "The Village" in the original 60s version of The Prisoner, it has a hotel there, and is the home of Portmeirion Pottery. The hotel is pricey (£280 per night for 2) but more affordable accomodation can be found in neighbouring Porthmadog (the Travelodge is usually a good option, prices around £40 for 2). Ffestiniog railway has a station at Porthmadog too. It's a 14 mile long narrow gauge steam railway that was the inspiration for the children's cartoon series "Ivor the Engine". Fishguard, further down the coast is a picturesque place with a ferry to Ireland based there too. Every year around April-May there is the "Man vs Horse Race", which takes place in central Wales, also worth seeing.
Firstly Wells is a town in Somerst and Wales is a country. My younger son was asked by an American girl where he cme from. He said Wales. She said Whales are animals not a country, top taking the piss. He said no, Wales pronounced the same, but no H. Oh she said That's Wells, you're saying it wrong, Secondly, Welsh is not a strange or difficult language. Y and W are vowels usually. Y pronounced "uh" ifit's the first Y and more "ih" if it's the second. There are acouple of sounds not used in English, they are voiceless alveolars. Itried them on google translate for the sounds, but it only some where near. The D is ahrd D but DD is soft , alittle like TH. F=V and FF=F. SI=SH, so shop in Cymraeg is written SIOP. Thirdly , where you paused thhe video to ask bout parking, there was a layby on his left, And finally, I bet you're pleased. the nearest we get to babeque are kippers, finnan haddies, smoked mackerel, salmon etc.
Grass is green, rushes are green, but in winter rushes turn pale brown - rough grazing especially on hills, has a mix of both. If terrain looks brown it is because sheep graze grass to 1/2 inch but do not touch the rushes .
I'm Cornish. I love and respect the Welsh for keeping their Celtic language alive. The Cornish language has all but died out. Recent attempts to revive it are starting to bear fruit but hats off to the Welsh for keeping their language alive and thriving.
Just as a side note can I recommend you guys check out Cornwall in south west England. It's the number one holiday destination for Brits who holiday at home, and rightly so.
Much of what inspired Tolkien was the city he grew up in, Birmingham and the surrounding areas. He lived for a long time in an area called Kings Heath, if you head a couple of miles south you are at the top of a large hill looking out over the Vale of Evesham, you can see the Cotswolds and Malverns in the distance. I can see how this area would have inspired middle earth, Sarhole Mill in Birmingham is thought to have inspired Hobbiton and is now a Tolkien visitor centre, there is some dispute over which two towers in the city inspired the Two Towers, I'd like to think one was Old Joe ( the worlds tallest free standing clock tower ) as I could see it from my childhood home. I now live in the town where Tolkien spent his final years, Bournemouth, if you think we English don't do beach resorts you should take a look at this town.
You absolutely hit the nail right on the head, Wales is a mystical place, it feels magical and old (because it is it). I believe that the lord of the rings TV series was filmed in Wales. I am very proud to say that I’m from the Gower and still live on the Gower and it is amazing. I have many many memories of regularly cycling across the whole of the Gower with my friends as a teenager. I also spend a lot of time in Tenby/pembrokeshire which I also adore, fab video, I really enjoyed it 😊
I live in north wales, I’ve walked all of the tracks up to the top of snowdon and it’s breathtaking, this was number 5 on the list and I’m about 25 mins drive from there. Anglesey which is number 5 is about 45 mins away and also beautiful. Snowdon is more rugged and it makes it even more beautiful.
English/British people mostly barbecue in the summer. Then the Polish, Latvians, and other people/families originally from eastern Europe, they do barbecue differently, and they do it all year round. You have Dan-Os seasoning, whilst we have Dunns River and other seasonings, including Asian, African and European.
🇬🇧 Travelling up/along the sides of various Welsh mountains in a car. SO SCARY . Ps. I'm English, but I can say Lan....., the longest Welsh word. I just can't spell it. Haha
Rhossili and Mumbles (known as the Gower peninsula) would also be my choice for number 1 and Rhossili never seems too over crowded. You mentioned the Welsh language which looks and sounds nothing like English and is linked with Cornish (in England) and Breton (Brittany in France). The country has it's own folk tales, dances and songs and a distinct culture of its own from its English neighbour. I am happily surprised you know about us, as I know some of your country men and women have not heard of us. Diolch yn fawr (Eng. thank you).
I am Welsh and live in Wales. I lived in Aberystwyth for 30 years but now I am back in south Wales. I would like to make a few points about the video by Robbie Roams you are watching. Firstly the roads are not all like the one in the Brecon Beacons, but cars can pass each other on that road. Secondly Robbie Roams does not pronounce the Welsh place names correctly. Finally not all of Wales is fairytale places, it's a mixture of modern and ancient. But parts of Wales are stunning and we do have a lot of castles.
You can tell, no spoilers but she we went to Oxford, we could feel Lewis Carrol’s inspiration for Alice in wonderland, or the idea of the hundred acre Forrest for Winnie the Pooh, it just all fits in these places
@@Trippingthroughadventures I'm a Welshman currently living in the US, been here for 15 years and whilst the US is an amazing country I do miss the feeling that you could walk straight into Narnia if you went down the wrong path and the whole of the British Isles has places that just seems ancient. We have public footpaths that have been there for over 6000 years and are still used today. The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Britain similar to the Cornish.
Tolkien was raised on the Welsh borders,and the Myths of the Maninogi it's 4 volumes and there is a copy at the Library of Congress, I know as my father presented it to the American people as part of the Bicentennial celebrations
I enjoyed your documentary, and as I’m a Cymro, I found your views quite interesting. I agree that we don’t sell our country enough. Yes, we have many castles I believe the total is around 640. I hope you tell your friends back home about Cymru because there will always be a ‘welcome on the hillside’.Diolch, rhaglen ardderchog.
King Arthur is Welsh and merlyn In the yearly 1920s he was taught in Welsh schools as an actual king and merlyn was actually a bard in Welsh history and the English think they are a myth
Yes Wales as a country is underrated. There’s lots to see and enjoy. We have lots of castles all down to English invading centuries ago, that’s why in Wales we speak English a lot. Check out Welsh history. Love your TH-cam by the way.
In the UK you can walk anywhere anytime,on private property they have walking paths for anyone to walk. There are 1000s of klms of walking paths throughout the UK
There are over 1,500 beaches in the UK when I was a child my family went away for two weeks to one of the many of the British seaside towns, plus between spring and autumn many people do day trips to the seaside fairly regularly because no matter were you are in the UK you are a short car drive or coach/train trip away from the coast. The reason there are so many castles in Wales is that they were built by the English to supress the Welsh, the reason there are so many in Scotland is to defend themselves from the English.
@@MrStephenLodge Except most were not. All the Royal Castles in Wales were built by the English, so Castles like Caernarfon and the rest of the 'Ring of Iron', and many of the border Castles also. Most of the inland and Coastal Castles however were built by Welsh lords, not English. So while a significant number of Welsh Castles, and most of the largest Welsh Castles were built by the English, its not most of them.
The Pembrokeshire coast is the best. Worth staying in Tenby during the summer months. Barafundle bay and walk across the cliffs to bosheston Lilly ponds. You can hike it in one big circle, a nice 2/3 hour walk. Pembroke is also the home Henry the 8ths father. The castle in is the centre of Pembroke, that’s on the way to barafundle bay and bosheston Lilly ponds.
Ok Ok.... I just noticed the thumbnail, it's a picture of Cwm Idwal in the Ogwen Valley with Penrhyn Castle, they're about 9 miles apart in real life so nice photoshopping! 🤣 I never noticed before and just saw it again and was like, hmm how did Penrhyn Castle mysteriously move to the Ogwen valley! It's actually a very interesting area, it's an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and Charles Darwin visited it many times while putting together his theory on how Glaciation shaped the mountain landscape, also just out of shot to the right is a mountain called Tryfan which was used for training for the first expedition to summit Everest, there's a pub a few miles down the road full of memorabilia from when the expedition stayed there during their training, also the other peaks just above there are spectacularly beautiful and known for their crazy rock formations like 'The Castle of the Winds' (Castell y Gwynt) which is just incredible.
two places i recomend going to are St. Fagans National History Museum really interesting history, then my favorite place to go for a long walk 'Cader Idris' if your not afraid of taking a dip there is a gorgious lake to take quick cold dip in...
There's a beautifully shot, 10-minute video entitled 'Walking The Wales Coast Path' on the 'Rough Guides" TH-cam channel. As a Welshman myself I feel it gives a nice overview of what the country has to offer not just aesthetically but also culturally. Might be worth checking out.
I don't know if it was due to the time the video was shot, where it may have been hot and the grass was a bit dry, or if filters were used....but can assure you that Wales (pron. WAILS), is very green. I regularly holiday in Tenby....it's a beautiful town with beautiful beaches....and has a restaurant called HARBWR, that not only has the most fantastic food, but also sells it's own crafted beers on site....you'll love it!!
We do bar-b-q in Britain, it's just called 'carvery', that's where you will find all the meats that do not fit on a 'grill'. We count a Bar-b-q as the device that has a fire of coals or gas with a grill in a box. AKA 'Kettle grill' over here so you can see why you all call it a grill ;-) I think we adopted an American design for our 'kettle grill' but for some reason bar-b-q is synonymous with 'burnt stuff that tastes of lighter fluid with bad sauces' or a kettle grill or derivative device.
I am Welsh live in wales I love my country it’s beautiful but it’s the people who make wales we are a very small country only3.2 million people ,we love singing and love talking but are very friendly to every nationality,we love the Scot’s and Irish because they are celts like us we tease the English and love beating them at rugby but that’s been a few years back but we love them really they are linked to our country by a long border and are interlinked by small villages and towns we always help each other when we can and join each other in our Great Britain Olympic team.🏴🏴
So nice to hear you talking about Wales (English pronunciation “Wayals” and in Welsh is Cymru “kumree”). The reason you won’t see many vids is because it’s not that easy to see everything unless you drive. You can get to Cardiff n Holyhead by train but soooo pretty if you venture in by car to see more! Think Swiss Alps one minute, Yorkshire Moors the next, with deep ravines in the Vallies and awe inspiring fairy castles and mountains. Oooh and the food! Wait, no the history!! ❤❤❤
British people all stick together and respect each other, while also being proud, respectful of our individual Countries, our history and the place we call home. Wales is stunning 😍 xXx
🏴 Wales is my land of birth and was my home for many years. You are right it’s a mythical place packed full of History and Love. I left in the late 80sl a work in another fantastic mythical place which is surrounded by the cloak of Mannanin, the Isle of Man 🇮🇲. Come and look us up!
American travel writer Rick Steves has plenty of blogs from all over the UK, but he delves deeper into local life and customs, even if you have trouble posting them, they're well worth a private viewing.
The coast is a huge thing in Britain-the weather is often not good for sunbathing or swimming-but people still walk on the beach walk their dogs even ride horses on the beach, just because it isn't in many of the films made here doesn't mean people don't go to the beach. On a sunny Saturday Brighton beach (an hour from London) will be standing room only- it caused surges in covid here.
Wales is pretty rural overall. The reason wales is not well known is the British government banned advertising wales and at the time wales was the principality of England. Since wales voted for its own parliament, it has been given official country status as opposed to being a principality. Also, the reason why wales is the only country in the UK not represented on the Union Jack. Wales has so much unspoilt land and natural beauty. It's pretty quiet and very friendly, although, like anywhere, anything can happen, but overall, it's probably the safest place in the UK to travel in.
A few years ago I did a driving tour of Wales. I'd been there a number of times before, so was aware that many road signs are written in both English and Welsh. But on my driving tour, one sign caught me out. Out exploring one day, I saw a sign that said "Traeth Beach", so turned off the road to check it out. As is often the case in Wales, it was a beautiful beach. I walked around for a while, took some photos and moved on. Some miles later I saw another sign pointing the way to "Traeth Beach". I immediately thought it was odd that there were two beaches with the same name, but thought perhaps it was pointing to a different stretch of the same beach I had been to earlier. But as I carried on driving along the coast, I saw more and more signs to somewhere called "Traeth Beach". I was confused! But eventually...the penny dropped. I finally realised much later than I should have that traeth is just the Welsh word for beach, and that not all beaches in Wales have the same name!!! 😆
OK I'm not Welsh, I'm a Yorkshireman and I bow to no-one about the beauty of my county but Wales is an outstandingly beautiful place which is very well worth visiting! In Truth if I didn't live in Yorkshire I would want to live on the Gower Peninsular. I love it!
The Gower peninsula is like Cornwall without the tourism.
I am a Yorkshireman, too and I concur. When people drive all the way to Cornwall for their holiday, I have a smug feeling inside because I go to Southwest Wales - half the distance, just as beautiful, better beaches and a fraction of the traffic/tourists with the same climate/weather.
I live in swanses,the start of gower ,lost count of how 1:51 many beautifully beaches Swansea has,gorgeous.
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1st generation English on my dad's 'forever' Welsh side, and mam's forever generation Pityakka. I'm proud to be a Pityakka and English, even though I grew up thinking everything was Wales 😇 blame me dad ya nar
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Speaking as someone from Dorset, you are correct in saying how beautiful Wales is, all of the UK is exceptional. I love York and Harrogate, and I'm not being a creep saying that 😂
I'm English, live in Wales and Absolutely Love the place & the beautiful People!
@@timhannah4 I'm a welshman living in England,can I swap please,
JRR Tolkien said of Wales ,,"Welsh is of the soil , this island , the senior language of the men of Britain .Welsh is beautiful " LOTR was inspired by his love of Wales , saying he studied the Welsh Language so he could understand the history of Britain
Wales is a very small country with a small population. It may not get noticed in the world but in the UK it is definitely not forgotten the other uk countries have a great respect for Wales and the Welsh people.
I'm from Norfolk, but I've been to Wales a few times. It's beautiful!
J R R Tolkien was INSPIRED to write the lord of the rings because of Wales and the Welsh language..his famous quote is "Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful."...🏴❤️🏴
Hi he was heavily influenced by sarehole mill (where he grew up in Birmingham) for the shire and several areas around B'ham.
Only saying this because it's where I'm from
@@tonytresigne5929 I know mate; my point was the elven language was inspired by welsh. I know about the influence of your mill; I used to l8ve in sparkhill back in the day lol
I’m Scottish and I find Wales to be such a beautiful country with fantastic people food and architecture. One place not to be missed if you travel to the UK. All the best. Rab
Hello from the Welsh American Channel. We Welsh Americans are very proud of our heritage and our achievements. Cymru am byth!
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Not sure why Wales is titled underrated because nobody I know views it like that at all it’s a stunning country.
And personally I don’t think this video shows anywhere near the best of wales.
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Wales is well thought of in England, as is Scotland. I am 78 and have never felt unsafe in the UK, even when as part of my job was to supervise the closure and cash removal of a Post Office, after North London riots in the mid -1980's. Uneasy but not worried, although this was the day after. I can assure you that barbecues in the UK are taken very seriously and as soon as the sun comes out there is the smell drifting across the gardens. You are a lovely family and thank you for your kind comments about my country and UK in general.
The main difference being we will not be expecting to eat 1/4 of a cow, just a few burgers, the odd steak, and copious amounts of beer.
It’s not safe anymore as recent events have highlighted. Even in Scotland it’s getting bad with illegal immigrants. I wouldn’t bring my family on holiday here . That young girl stabbed in London is on holiday from Australia.
@@Parker_Douglas I sort of agree, but although terrible, these incidents are isolated and do not reflect how it actually is. The fact that the young girl was from Australia is coincidental as Leicester Square probably has more tourists than locals, as does most of central London.
I married into a Welsh family, I'm of Irish stock. Have 4 grown kids with 'attitude' lol 2 strong Nations. Have spent hours in Aberystwyth, the cemetery is filled with fascinating history too.. 4 years ago at age 68 I climbed Snowden even stayed in the Youth Hostel, they have changed so much from when I was in my teens.. I adore Wales and Ireland too
That aerial shot of the narrow road in the Brecon Beacons segment shows you two very visible ‘passing places’, like scraped out parking slots at the side of the road. You just keep your speed at a sensible level and whoever is closest to a passing place when you meet nose to nose will back up into it and let the other car pass. If you’re driving those roads - which are all over the U.K. countryside - cooperation is the name of the game. A toot on the horn when approaching a blind bend, or a full beam flash of your headlights at night, will alert anyone heading in the opposite direction that you’re there. Aggression doesn’t work, and neither does expecting a tractor or combine harvester to give way! Be patient, slow down a bit if necessary and learn to go with the flow. 😊
Except during the holiday season when the visitors can't reverse to save their lives. Many just sit there with a panicked expression or reverse about 4 feet, hit the hedge and give up. I could go on and on about the lack of reversing ability displayed by visitors to this wonderful part of the UK.
I'm Welsh. I live in North Wales. We have so many things to do here for such a small country. We are a very welcoming nation too. We love people visiting us and we're very friendly. I live in Llanfairfechan and we have people from all over the world here. I know many English who have moved here, Canadians, Norwegians, Scottish. Love this video.
I spent 10 years living in Aberystwyth at university - going on to get a PhD. It’s a wonderful place! Watching the sun set over cardigan bay on a still and clear summer evening is absolutely stunning. And it’s got so many pubs - great for student life!
I went there too. The best food places are lip licking chicken and Hollywood Pizza surely.
Grass is green all over the UK. Wales is green all over.
I was born in London to Welsh/American parents. I have been fortunate to live in various States in the USA. But most off my life I have lived in South Wales, surrounded by the beautiful Gower coastline. Wales has a lot to offer, quirky villages, superb coastline and the most castles in the UK. It is definitely worth exploring ☺️
As a Cardiff(Caerdydd) native, it's great to see you appreciate our wonderful country, we are as passionate about it as well. We do have many many castles, there are three just in Cardiff and they are always worth a visit if you are near.
The "grass" in the Brecon Beacons is actually Heather
I live five minutes away from the Brecon's, regularly walk there. While there are certainly areas of Heather, there are also large areas of grass.
Don't forget the winberries, broom and gorse.
I don't know why there is a dirty brown filter used on this video. Wales is a very green country, maybe the beacons might have more brown and purple heather but its definately not a parched dead landscape as it is in this video.
I’m Welsh born and bred and I can say that it’s a very green country. I feel he may have filmed most of this a couple of years ago when we had extreme heat (for this country) and most of the U.K. was very brown.
I now live in England in a beautiful town called Malvern which is in Worcestershire. If you want to see the land that inspired JR Tolkien you need to visit here as he got his inspiration from the beautiful Malvern Hills. Malvern is a AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty) designated area and you can walk for miles and miles on the hill and get views over the counties of Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Gloucestershure as well as see over to Wales.
Also inspired by this area was CS Lewis who wrote the Narnia series.
Both these men were good friends.
The only criticism I have of the original video is his pronunciation of some of the place names. But apart from that it’s a pretty good video.
🇬🇧 If I remember correctly, Elgar walked the Malvern Hills for inspiration for his music.
There's a host of beautiful places. I live in north Wales and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Some places for you to look up would be: Lake Vyrnwy, Portmeirion village, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy with its castle and the smallest house in the UK. I hope you get a chance to visit this beautiful country.
Wales is very green too, the areas you saw were just marshland covered in marsh plants like heather, gorse, sedums etc. which we have a lot of too, they're plants not grass, when they're in flower they look incredible, the yellow gorse, the purple heather and the sedums are all colours, some so red the hills look like they're on fire! We don't see ourselves as underrated, we like being the cool and lay back quieter celts, we're not loud and brash like all those Gaelic yobs (jk!) 🤣 One story you should check out for sure is Prince Madoc, some genuinely think he discovered America before Columbus, I know there are American's who believe there are Native Americans who speak a variant of Welsh etc.
Welsh singers? Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Duffy, Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Tyler, Mary Hopkin, Aled Jones.
Actors and Comedians: Griffin Rhys Jones, Rhod Gilbert, Rob Brydon, Keith Allen, Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale, Greg Davies, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ruth Jones, Terry Jones.
Welsh Choirs!
The Welsh Coast, the Welsh Hills and mountains, Welsh Sheep and Lamb, Welsh Rarebit, Welsh Faggots (meatballs, Welsh Cakes, Laverbread, Mussels from the Menai straights, Caerphilly Cheese, oggies!
Rugby.
Wrexham, even Ryan Renolds and Rob McElhenney have heard of Wrexham!
Offa's Dyke. Isle of Anglesey. (My Brother-in-law went to Uni there).
The Prince of Wales.
And of course...
Yma o Hyd (still here) by Daffyd Iwan!
Shirley bassey is actually half English and half African, she just lived here in Wales and Christian bale is English not welsh. Both parents are English and he grew up in England, was just born here in Wales.
I spent nearly 10 years, from the age of 5, living in Aberystwyth ( I'm a 71 yr old fart now ) in a house overlooking the harbour on Pen yr Angor road, a dead end road which only goes to a beach. I still visit there, and a small village called Borth, 8 miles North of Aberystwyth, to go fishing from the beach. Always enjoy your TH-cam postings, keep up the good work. You seem to be a lovely family, with 2 really cute kids. Adrian.
Well you sound like you’re in the perfect place to live lol… thank you for the kind words.
it's not said as WELLS....it WALES!....my home country.
@@222inverter I don't know why so many from the US pronounce it with an E, even after correcting himself he continued to pronounce it incorrectly.
@@chrisshelley3027I've only recently noticed (thanks to watching MANY American TH-cam videos!) that a lot of Americans pronounce the "ai" sound as an e. So Craig becomes Cregg, vague becomes vegg, plague becomes plegg...and Wales becomes Wells! The Craig/Cregg one I've always known about, but I never realised it also applies to many similar words. 🤷♂️
I looked into this a little while ago, and it is a feature of certain accents in the US, more so in the South. It bugs the hell out of me! Bloody Hell!
Wells is a charming city in Somerset, famous for its medieval Cathedral and springs and definitely worth visiting.
Try them with Edinburgh @@brentwoodbay
Even the southern most parts of the UK are further north than any part of the US, apart from Alaska, but we have a temperate climate. The sea, or ocean, keeps our islands warm. We don't get extremes of cold or heat that are comparable to parts of the US. The sea isn't that cold for this reason. It is relatively warm because it has come from central America as the "gulf stream". I believe that it is warmer than the ocean in the LA of California when I lived there.
Welsh is probably the closest we have to the language spoken before the Romans arrived-the Britons were driven west by waves of invasion.
@@lauraholland347 Wales must have been pretty crowded then if everyone from the east were pushed there by invaders. Wouldn't those who were already there object?
If course they weren't forced west, they fought back. 'English' Kings didn't take over until nearly 200 years after Roman rule ended.
You cannot know that everyone spoke the same language. There were several cultural groups in Britain, & more came during the Roman era. They were not a single
ethnic group, but an admixture which became Romani-Britons, at least within the area of the Roman Provinces of Britannia.
@@danielferguson3784 Like with any incursion some resisted, and some didn't, there are always disagreements and skirmishes when people move. The Welsh had their own kings until the high medieval-I think you need to read round the subject a little.
There is strong linguistic and genetic evidence for the push west. Of course there were several cultural groups in Britain, but I have never seen anyone showing evidence for the addition of new cultural groups during the Roman period. I never said everyone spoke the same language, but there is strong evidence Welsh is a survivor from the pre Roman period-if there were lots of languages which were not related I would expect Latin to have hung on as a Lingua Franca-which didn't happen.
@@danielferguson3784 Some of the Welsh people moved West during the Anglo-Saxon invasion, but most merged into the new system and adopted the new language. However, pockets of Welsh speakers remained across England until at least the Norman Conquest in 1066.
@@ianbeddowes5362 The people of Roman Britain were not all 'Welsh' as that term did not apply until much later. It is only a lazy assumption that 'Celtic' was spoken throughout Britain, the eastern parts likely always had a majority Germanic speaking population, having migrated from northern parts of Europe since at least neolithic times.
Continuing links to that area is shown by the Parisi people of Yorkshire, & the Belgae in the south.
The DNA shows a gradient from east to west from German Scandinavian to Celtic which is older than the post Roman era. It is not possible that a major portion of the British population 'fled' to the west at the coming of the Germans, though some migrated to Armorica, causing it's name change to Brittany, that need not have been many. It is unlikely that a substantial indigenous population would have chosen to take up an invaders language, with virtually no trace of their mother tongue. It's much more likely that a large part of the population already spoke a Germanic language that was merely reinforced by the newcomers, who may not have really have been strangers at all, but just more barbarian 'federati' as long employed by Rome. Indeed many thousands of 'Roman' troops in Britain had always been recruited from the German peoples, among others, & this only increased over time. In the latter part of the Roman period such troops were employed under their own tribal leaders rather than being Romanised, becoming little more than mercenaries. So the proto Welsh 'Celtic' language may well have been mostly confined to the western parts of Britain, & Ireland, with areas of admixture between that & the Germanic east.
Thus the Celtic languages have mostly always been spoken in the regions where they survive today, but have maybe been lost from a few areas east of Wales in England, but not from the further eastern regions, because they were never the majority language there.
@@danielferguson3784 We were taught in school ( in Wales ) that the Welsh language was the oldest in all of Britain and Europe, and was also spoken in the whole of UK and Europe. When the country was invaded the Welsh were not allowed to speak the language as the invaders couldn’t understand what was being said , also we were told that the language would hold you back from employment etc , and we were treated a little badly, having the Bibles taken away and replaced by English ones. The Welsh have been seen as second class citizens in a lot of of British society.
Wales is beautiful. As a child I stayed in Nefyn every summer for over 10 years.
Driving, we don’t play chicken. We’re British so we politely let each other pass. We probably say sorry as well.
Ok to confuse things further when we use the term grill it refers to what you call a broiler in your kitchen cooker. Basically anything (except pizza) cooked outside using gas or charcoal is called a bbq in the UK and never grilling. Some people do smoke food but that’s just called smoking and never bbq. My old neighbour, for example, used to smoke fish in his shed using a smoker.
To add to the above,your “grilled cheese” sandwiches,are fried cheese sandwiches.
Most Brits don't need a lecture on Wales as we know about this graceful, mystical place. It is only not known to people from abroad that do not research their holiday destinations.
The people are so friendly and normaly welcome visiters. I am English and have moved to the welsh boarders at Monmouth, and even on grey wet days, which there are many, it's still worth a long visit.
Check out Midwest Americans. They came to the UK and fell in love with Wales. I can understand why, I love it too. They made some nice videos about their tour. Worth a watch.
I saw that ! Adorable how they were completely bowled over.
Now... Barbecue. This is a method of cooking outdoors over a pit of charcoal. Smoking is not involved. That is a separate process called (wait for it) smoking.
Technical point: Wales does not border any ocean. The salt water are all seas and channels.
There are videos on how to drive on Britain's narrow country roads. There are areas in Wales great for looking at stars and the milky way as it has designated dark skies areas. Plus alot cheaper than anywhere near London
Well I sure won’t be watching that at 1 am 😂🤣😂
I m from Romania and i have been liveing in Swansea South Wales for 4 years now and i have to say it worh living here ! You have the sea and the hills so close i love it ! ❤
That little girl was attacked by a Romanian man you shouldn’t even be in our country.
One thing I love about the UK as a proud Welshman (and proud Brit) is that despite the rivalries between our home nations, we will always declare how beautiful the others are to anyone from outside the UK. Scotland, Northern Ireland and England are all stunning and I love visiting them. But if there's a rugby game on... it's war ⚔️😂
I absolutely love Wales...its many castles....scenery. The one thing I remember though is sadly Aberfan. Mining debris was built up on a hill next to a school. It collapsed in 1966 onto the school killing about 116 children.....Anyway....There's a mountain railway that goes to the top of Snowden mountains!
We have barbecue in the garden every summer and we all go to the beach in the summer and barbecue , we have the best beaches in the world
I would like to attend a British barbecue lol
Tolkien grew up in Birmingham, and this is what inspired most of his writings, places like Sarehole Mill, which was almost opposite his house from the age of 4 to about 8, played and explored there, he had 9 addresses in Birmingham, before his scholarship to Oxford, Sarehole Mill is still open to visitors today, and is around 4 miles from where I live.
Well done.
I'm a South wales man.
I've done quite a bit of work In America and enjoyed it but always glad to get back home for a pie and a pint😁👌
Ugh don’t talk to me about pies, im on a diet and spent two hours watching steak ale pie recipes on TH-cam yesterday🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures yup steak and ale.deadly😁
Cool video guys, I live in South Wales and there are some incredible places to visit. Luckily I get to walk the dog around places like Margam Castle once a week and often go to Ogmore-by-sea beach which is stunning.
The different grass colours are because they’re different types growing at different heights.
Green grass - which Wales is also covered in -,grows mostly at lower lying land whereas the brown types are mountain grasses.
@CarolineWillows-fz7sp surely it sound be obvious to everone that grass colour will vary according to the time of year !
I didn't expect to open up with Aberystwyth. I can see my house in literally the opening shot of this video hahaha. Aber means "mouth" in Welsh and so the name of the town is literally "Mouth of the Ystwyth river". Its a fun town with about a 50/50 split in population between locals and the student population of the university. It also has the National Library of Wales. If you ever were to visit I recommend taking the train to the next town over called Borth and walking back to Aber along the coastal path. Done in good weather this is a medium difficulty hike with absolutely breath taking views.
That was a quick look at Wales, he missed out a hundreds of places as good there are many more beaches that are just as good, plus over 600 castles were built in wale not all are still here but may hundreds are here to explore, the highest number of castles in Europe. Caerphilly castle is the second biggest castle in the UK Only Windsor castle is bigger, Kidwelly castle is well preserved ruin well worth a visit. He missed out on sea side towns as well New Quay, Aberaeron both worth a visit, I am from south west Wales so I know the area well. Try Magenta Otter Travels, they are from the US and well worth a watch try their Escape to Tenby video. Like your videos.
When we was saying Wales is underrepresented on TH-cam we wasn’t lying. This was the best video we found..
@@Trippingthroughadventures there is a great channel by an American with Welsh heritage. I think it's called "The American Welsh Channel" where he explores his heritage and the history of Wales.
Agreed. He missed a lot.
@@Rachel_M_Midwestern Americans did a great travelogue in Wales last year !
@@fayesouthall6604 long time subscriber.
The series is worth a watch, especially the flight over Wales they had ☺
Wales i always feel at home, mum still lives in wales so it a great feeling crossing welsh border the feeling home comes back. never forget one beach i need to ask where it was as want to visit with my camera its like number 2 a long walk down cliffs but it separated by cliffs when tide come in we nearly got trapped on furthest beach area we spent hours down as this stop only seen few people and no one at far end what gets cut off at high tide so remote no town close by you park side country road a walking path through farm land and walk down overgrown cliff path such a stunning place that was in wales, spent a lot my childhood travelling wales inc mos my schools, my mum and uncle also took part in castle shows so very often hook up caravan and travel to next castle, lots very fun enjoyable times in younger years and one day i move back as i do miss my home
I love being Welsh 🏴 awesome vid!
Thank you
I'm welsh but I live on the dark side,(England) my family is linked to the 9 century in west wales,I wish I could live there,but unfortunately not able to.
Swansea doesn't have a lot of old buildings. The city centre was pretty much flattened by the Luftwaffe in WW2.
I love your enthusiasm for our beautiful island. It's always nice to see it through somebody else's eyes. These things are often taken for granted
Can tell you from going myself Tenby is stunning
Wales is really green as well
Hiya,I think you' may have got the wrong impression about Wales and it not being popular, that's completely wrong,Wales is very popular ,so much so in the summer months it's overflowing with tourists and can get overcrowded in some holiday resorts ,it can make life difficult for the locals ,(note before anyone says anything I'm English ) it's beautiful and people are friendly .go visit Wales you'll love it❤❤
Wales, home of my great grand parents, is a beautiful place. We used to go, as a family, every year and never got tired of the beautiful scenery. SUGGESTION for another glimpse of Wales: '3 nights alone in a mountain paradise: wild camping'. Love from the UK
Wales is a beautiful country and Britain's most ancient language.the mountains are fantastic and have gold! The beaches are lovely too and the people
The brown grass is abnormal. Wales gets more rain than most of the UK. This must have been in the time of drought
That’s why we have the saying,”How green are our valleys🌧️💦😂
It was Heather
Yes, exactly my comment. We had a severe drought in the UK just prior to the start of the pandemic. I can remember the grass was scorched everywhere (all of London’s royal parks etc), and it hit over 40 degrees on the runway at Heathrow. Ironically, bearing in mind what they just said about Tolkien and LOTR, I worked with a girl at the time who returned permanently to her home country of New Zealand and on arrival sent an email to her ex colleagues. In it, she had the audacity to remark on how she had “forgotten” that it was so much greener than England. It made me cross at the time because it would’ve been winter over there and probably very wet (considering their latitude south of the equator is basically identical to ours north of it), and because I knew it wasn’t true and we were going through a horrendous drought. I mean, the UK is literally famous the world over for its beautiful green hills. 😂😂
I'm from just north of Liverpool and everyone here tends to think of Wales as our back yard. We used to go there virtually every weekend as a kid; and I still go many times a year to our place on the coast Nope, not depriving the locals of housing...I hate that too. It's a truly beautiful place.
Fun fact: the A5 is the old London-Holyhead post road., where you'd then take a ferry to Dublin. It starts at Marble Arch in London, but it also ends at an arch...the Admiralty Arch right in front of the old Regency customs house on Salt Island in Holyhead. The old church of St Cybi, overlooking the harbour there gives Holyhead its Welsh name...Caergybi. It's built in the remains of an old Roman fort. Caer = Chester.
It’s funny that you bring up Tolkien and Lord of the Rings etc when looking at the Snowdonia landscape, because the picturesque valleys and river landscapes of Wales, particularly the area around Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia, are thought to have influenced Tolkien’s depiction of Rivendell. The lush, green valleys and riverside vistas bear a resemblance to the descriptions of the Elven refuge, so you were spot on with Rivendell too, The Shire was also influenced by Wales but only partly.
You also have the Welsh language which Tolkien based the elvish language of Sindarin on.
Welsh was Tolkien’s favourite language, he remarked on the beauty of Welsh, stating that he had “always been fascinated by Welsh,” and went on to describe it as having “an inherent beauty” which made him think it might be “the language of heaven.”
He also said “Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful; and much more important than either of the ‘kinds’ of English, as a matter of literary tradition and historical association. And it has a beauty, even when not singing, that does not depend on a long and varied literary tradition.”
He also said “I love Wales - and especially the Welsh language. I loved it before I knew it. The beginning of the desire to write poetry was the desire to translate poetry out of the tongues I admired and liked into English words that had the same effect. I was enormously attracted by the languages of early Europe, especially those of the Celts; and none seemed to me more attractive than the Welsh. I felt a certain distaste for Anglo-Saxon…. Welsh is a magic language - full of allusions of Welsh bards that were very dear to me.”
He also described it as “like stained glass seen against the light, and capable of such a tremendous variety of effects. Some but not all of these qualities may be shared by its remote offspring, English; but at an immense distance they are there native and proper, the language of a people to whom ‘we’ and ‘our’ apply, however widely branched in the world the branches may grow.”
Wales is beautiful....ive literally just moved to mid wales.....however...im British/Irish ....im born and bred in Northern Ireland. We are only known by many for the Troubles....its one of the most stunning countries in the UK....but many people dont realise we are part of the UK...😢😢😢
For its size, Great Britain has very diverse landscapes.
From the rugged mountains of the Scottish Highlands and Snowdonia to the rolling hills of Devon , the Yorkshire Dales, the dramatic cliffs , coves and beaches of Cornwall, the waterways of the Norfolk Broads, and southern chalk pastures and picturesque southern villages.
And then there are the medieval cities, like York, Chester and Canterbury, with their magnificent cathedrals .
And nowhere is more than a two hour drive from the sea.
I love watching you guys. Thanks for reminding me how much I love my country
Aberystwyth beautiful town I lives there for 24 years vale of rheidol Railway up to Devils Bridge passing through some beautiful scenery. I lived on a little estate in comins coch called Bronquinau I have 2 sisters still living there. I highly recommend paying a visit, the cliff Railway is excellent and over the other side of the cliff (there's a public path) is Clarach Bay caravan camping site
No, - if anything, Wales is more green than England.
But after the dry season, it turns brown like that everywhere.
But not this year - the jet stream has been unusually further south than normal, this year.
Portmeirion should have been on that list. Famous as "The Village" in the original 60s version of The Prisoner, it has a hotel there, and is the home of Portmeirion Pottery. The hotel is pricey (£280 per night for 2) but more affordable accomodation can be found in neighbouring Porthmadog (the Travelodge is usually a good option, prices around £40 for 2). Ffestiniog railway has a station at Porthmadog too. It's a 14 mile long narrow gauge steam railway that was the inspiration for the children's cartoon series "Ivor the Engine".
Fishguard, further down the coast is a picturesque place with a ferry to Ireland based there too.
Every year around April-May there is the "Man vs Horse Race", which takes place in central Wales, also worth seeing.
Firstly Wells is a town in Somerst and Wales is a country. My younger son was asked by an American girl where he cme from. He said Wales. She said Whales are animals not a country, top taking the piss. He said no, Wales pronounced the same, but no H. Oh she said That's Wells, you're saying it wrong,
Secondly, Welsh is not a strange or difficult language. Y and W are vowels usually. Y pronounced "uh" ifit's the first Y and more "ih" if it's the second. There are acouple of sounds not used in English, they are voiceless alveolars. Itried them on google translate for the sounds, but it only some where near. The D is ahrd D but DD is soft , alittle like TH. F=V and FF=F. SI=SH, so shop in Cymraeg is written SIOP.
Thirdly , where you paused thhe video to ask bout parking, there was a layby on his left,
And finally, I bet you're pleased. the nearest we get to babeque are kippers, finnan haddies, smoked mackerel, salmon etc.
Grass is green, rushes are green, but in winter rushes turn pale brown - rough grazing especially on hills, has a mix of both. If terrain looks brown it is because sheep graze grass to 1/2 inch but do not touch the rushes .
I'm Cornish. I love and respect the Welsh for keeping their Celtic language alive. The Cornish language has all but died out. Recent attempts to revive it are starting to bear fruit but hats off to the Welsh for keeping their language alive and thriving.
Just as a side note can I recommend you guys check out Cornwall in south west England. It's the number one holiday destination for Brits who holiday at home, and rightly so.
Much of what inspired Tolkien was the city he grew up in, Birmingham and the surrounding areas. He lived for a long time in an area called Kings Heath, if you head a couple of miles south you are at the top of a large hill looking out over the Vale of Evesham, you can see the Cotswolds and Malverns in the distance. I can see how this area would have inspired middle earth, Sarhole Mill in Birmingham is thought to have inspired Hobbiton and is now a Tolkien visitor centre, there is some dispute over which two towers in the city inspired the Two Towers, I'd like to think one was Old Joe ( the worlds tallest free standing clock tower ) as I could see it from my childhood home.
I now live in the town where Tolkien spent his final years, Bournemouth, if you think we English don't do beach resorts you should take a look at this town.
@@paulhanson5164 Plus, the Black Country was the inspiration for Mordor!
You absolutely hit the nail right on the head, Wales is a mystical place, it feels magical and old (because it is it). I believe that the lord of the rings TV series was filmed in Wales. I am very proud to say that I’m from the Gower and still live on the Gower and it is amazing. I have many many memories of regularly cycling across the whole of the Gower with my friends as a teenager. I also spend a lot of time in Tenby/pembrokeshire which I also adore, fab video, I really enjoyed it 😊
I live in north wales, I’ve walked all of the tracks up to the top of snowdon and it’s breathtaking, this was number 5 on the list and I’m about 25 mins drive from there. Anglesey which is number 5 is about 45 mins away and also beautiful. Snowdon is more rugged and it makes it even more beautiful.
English/British people mostly barbecue in the summer. Then the Polish, Latvians, and other people/families originally from eastern Europe, they do barbecue differently, and they do it all year round.
You have Dan-Os seasoning, whilst we have Dunns River and other seasonings, including Asian, African and European.
🇬🇧 Travelling up/along the sides of various Welsh mountains in a car. SO SCARY .
Ps. I'm English, but I can say Lan....., the longest Welsh word. I just can't spell it. Haha
There are always points in the road, at regular periods, to pull over. The grass colour will vary according to the height and Wales is mountainous.
Rhossili and Mumbles (known as the Gower peninsula) would also be my choice for number 1 and Rhossili never seems too over crowded. You mentioned the Welsh language which looks and sounds nothing like English and is linked with Cornish (in England) and Breton (Brittany in France). The country has it's own folk tales, dances and songs and a distinct culture of its own from its English neighbour. I am happily surprised you know about us, as I know some of your country men and women have not heard of us. Diolch yn fawr (Eng. thank you).
I am Welsh and live in Wales. I lived in Aberystwyth for 30 years but now I am back in south Wales. I would like to make a few points about the video by Robbie Roams you are watching. Firstly the roads are not all like the one in the Brecon Beacons, but cars can pass each other on that road. Secondly Robbie Roams does not pronounce the Welsh place names correctly. Finally not all of Wales is fairytale places, it's a mixture of modern and ancient. But parts of Wales are stunning and we do have a lot of castles.
Wales is beautiful and has great people.
The simple answer for the different coloured grass, is that it’s higher up, so colder, windier and has less oxygen
Funny enough Tolkien based the Elven languages on Welsh. Most of the middle earth is taken from places all around Britain, wales included
You can tell, no spoilers but she we went to Oxford, we could feel Lewis Carrol’s inspiration for Alice in wonderland, or the idea of the hundred acre Forrest for Winnie the Pooh, it just all fits in these places
@@Trippingthroughadventures I'm a Welshman currently living in the US, been here for 15 years and whilst the US is an amazing country I do miss the feeling that you could walk straight into Narnia if you went down the wrong path and the whole of the British Isles has places that just seems ancient.
We have public footpaths that have been there for over 6000 years and are still used today.
The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Britain similar to the Cornish.
Tolkien was raised on the Welsh borders,and the Myths of the Maninogi it's 4 volumes and there is a copy at the Library of Congress, I know as my father presented it to the American people as part of the Bicentennial celebrations
I enjoyed your documentary, and as I’m a Cymro, I found your views quite interesting. I agree that we don’t sell our country enough. Yes, we have many castles I believe the total is around 640. I hope you tell your friends back home about Cymru because there will always be a ‘welcome on the hillside’.Diolch, rhaglen ardderchog.
King Arthur is Welsh and merlyn In the yearly 1920s he was taught in Welsh schools as an actual king and merlyn was actually a bard in Welsh history and the English think they are a myth
Yes Wales as a country is underrated. There’s lots to see and enjoy. We have lots of castles all down to English invading centuries ago, that’s why in Wales we speak English a lot. Check out Welsh history. Love your TH-cam by the way.
In the UK you can walk anywhere anytime,on private property they have walking paths for anyone to walk. There are 1000s of klms of walking paths throughout the UK
There are over 1,500 beaches in the UK when I was a child my family went away for two weeks to one of the many of the British seaside towns, plus between spring and autumn many people do day trips to the seaside fairly regularly because no matter were you are in the UK you are a short car drive or coach/train trip away from the coast. The reason there are so many castles in Wales is that they were built by the English to supress the Welsh, the reason there are so many in Scotland is to defend themselves from the English.
That's a way too simplistic and inaccurate description of history.
@@Philzoid Most Welsh castles built by the English, most Scottish castles built by Scots, simplistic but true.
@@MrStephenLodge Except most were not. All the Royal Castles in Wales were built by the English, so Castles like Caernarfon and the rest of the 'Ring of Iron', and many of the border Castles also.
Most of the inland and Coastal Castles however were built by Welsh lords, not English. So while a significant number of Welsh Castles, and most of the largest Welsh Castles were built by the English, its not most of them.
@@alganhar1 Thanks its always good to learn.
The Pembrokeshire coast is the best. Worth staying in Tenby during the summer months. Barafundle bay and walk across the cliffs to bosheston Lilly ponds. You can hike it in one big circle, a nice 2/3 hour walk. Pembroke is also the home Henry the 8ths father. The castle in is the centre of Pembroke, that’s on the way to barafundle bay and bosheston Lilly ponds.
Most narrow road have small pullins every 200 or 300 yards.
Ok Ok.... I just noticed the thumbnail, it's a picture of Cwm Idwal in the Ogwen Valley with Penrhyn Castle, they're about 9 miles apart in real life so nice photoshopping! 🤣 I never noticed before and just saw it again and was like, hmm how did Penrhyn Castle mysteriously move to the Ogwen valley! It's actually a very interesting area, it's an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and Charles Darwin visited it many times while putting together his theory on how Glaciation shaped the mountain landscape, also just out of shot to the right is a mountain called Tryfan which was used for training for the first expedition to summit Everest, there's a pub a few miles down the road full of memorabilia from when the expedition stayed there during their training, also the other peaks just above there are spectacularly beautiful and known for their crazy rock formations like 'The Castle of the Winds' (Castell y Gwynt) which is just incredible.
two places i recomend going to are St. Fagans National History Museum really interesting history, then my favorite place to go for a long walk 'Cader Idris' if your not afraid of taking a dip there is a gorgious lake to take quick cold dip in...
There's a beautifully shot, 10-minute video entitled 'Walking The Wales Coast Path' on the 'Rough Guides" TH-cam channel. As a Welshman myself I feel it gives a nice overview of what the country has to offer not just aesthetically but also culturally. Might be worth checking out.
I don't know if it was due to the time the video was shot, where it may have been hot and the grass was a bit dry, or if filters were used....but can assure you that Wales (pron. WAILS), is very green.
I regularly holiday in Tenby....it's a beautiful town with beautiful beaches....and has a restaurant called HARBWR, that not only has the most fantastic food, but also sells it's own crafted beers on site....you'll love it!!
We do bar-b-q in Britain, it's just called 'carvery', that's where you will find all the meats that do not fit on a 'grill'.
We count a Bar-b-q as the device that has a fire of coals or gas with a grill in a box.
AKA 'Kettle grill' over here so you can see why you all call it a grill ;-)
I think we adopted an American design for our 'kettle grill' but for some reason bar-b-q is synonymous with 'burnt stuff that tastes of lighter fluid with bad sauces' or a kettle grill or derivative device.
Come visit. You'll love the place, the people, the food. The castles, rivers. Welcome
I am Welsh live in wales I love my country it’s beautiful but it’s the people who make wales we are a very small country only3.2 million people ,we love singing and love talking but are very friendly to every nationality,we love the Scot’s and Irish because they are celts like us we tease the English and love beating them at rugby but that’s been a few years back but we love them really they are linked to our country by a long border and are interlinked by small villages and towns we always help each other when we can and join each other in our Great Britain Olympic team.🏴🏴
So nice to hear you talking about Wales (English pronunciation “Wayals” and in Welsh is Cymru “kumree”). The reason you won’t see many vids is because it’s not that easy to see everything unless you drive. You can get to Cardiff n Holyhead by train but soooo pretty if you venture in by car to see more! Think Swiss Alps one minute, Yorkshire Moors the next, with deep ravines in the Vallies and awe inspiring fairy castles and mountains. Oooh and the food! Wait, no the history!! ❤❤❤
British people all stick together and respect each other, while also being proud, respectful of our individual Countries, our history and the place we call home. Wales is stunning 😍 xXx
🏴 Wales is my land of birth and was my home for many years. You are right it’s a mythical place packed full of History and Love. I left in the late 80sl a work in another fantastic mythical place which is surrounded by the cloak of Mannanin, the Isle of Man 🇮🇲. Come and look us up!
American travel writer Rick Steves has plenty of blogs from all over the UK, but he delves deeper into local life and customs, even if you have trouble posting them, they're well worth a private viewing.
The coast is a huge thing in Britain-the weather is often not good for sunbathing or swimming-but people still walk on the beach walk their dogs even ride horses on the beach, just because it isn't in many of the films made here doesn't mean people don't go to the beach.
On a sunny Saturday Brighton beach (an hour from London) will be standing room only- it caused surges in covid here.
The Blue Lagoon Was Up For Sale Recently, It Was About A Price Of A House But I Don't Know If It's Sold Now
Wales is pretty rural overall. The reason wales is not well known is the British government banned advertising wales and at the time wales was the principality of England. Since wales voted for its own parliament, it has been given official country status as opposed to being a principality. Also, the reason why wales is the only country in the UK not represented on the Union Jack. Wales has so much unspoilt land and natural beauty. It's pretty quiet and very friendly, although, like anywhere, anything can happen, but overall, it's probably the safest place in the UK to travel in.
A few years ago I did a driving tour of Wales. I'd been there a number of times before, so was aware that many road signs are written in both English and Welsh. But on my driving tour, one sign caught me out. Out exploring one day, I saw a sign that said "Traeth Beach", so turned off the road to check it out. As is often the case in Wales, it was a beautiful beach. I walked around for a while, took some photos and moved on. Some miles later I saw another sign pointing the way to "Traeth Beach". I immediately thought it was odd that there were two beaches with the same name, but thought perhaps it was pointing to a different stretch of the same beach I had been to earlier. But as I carried on driving along the coast, I saw more and more signs to somewhere called "Traeth Beach". I was confused! But eventually...the penny dropped. I finally realised much later than I should have that traeth is just the Welsh word for beach, and that not all beaches in Wales have the same name!!! 😆