The Perfect Day: Americans in Wales - Day #11 Recap
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- This is our day 11 recap of our UK trip that we took back in June. We talk about leaving York, driving to Wales, and spending the day in the amazing Welsh town Llandudno.
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Falling in stinging nettles is a British rite of passage as a kid.
I love how they interrupt each other all the time and he looks so politely frustrated whilst she's just so excited to tell the stories.
Every castle in wales was built a days March from the last and each one is different and beautiful in it’s own way, Caernarfon castle is awesome and contains so much history, the English and Welsh have a chequered history but as an English man I can say without doubt I have never heard anything but love and praise for our great welsh brothers and sisters and Wales 🏴 ❤ 🏴
Lovely to see how much you appreciated Wales - without even one castle in sight!!! I hope the next day you found your castles.
Amazing that they didnt see Castles ! Like the entire UK, they are everywhere !
So glad you came to Llandudno (my home town), its very a very popular place for holidays. Hope you enjoyed it. Shame you didnt go up to the summit of the Great Orme as the view there is breathtaking being 679ft above sea level. The road around the Great Orme is called The Marine Drive. Sounds like you walked through some Nettles which have stinging hairs on their leaves. The walkway on the North Shore where the Pier is, is called the Promenade. Welsh is a very old originating language of the UK, its a celtic language which has evolved from the ancient Brythonic language of the ancient Britons who lived in the UK before the Romans. The Welsh language is protected by law and has presidence on all street signs so its alway above the English translation. Glad you met some of our goats, there is a herd about 150 strong on the Orme and they even come down into the town , especially during the covid outbreak when Llandudno became very quiet due to the lockdown. The goats originate from a pair of Kashmir goats which were presented to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who then gave them to Lord Mostyn(big land owner) who then gave them to the town and they lived on the Great Orme. Hope this info helps you a bit.
There seems to be a lot of Joneses commenting on this one. I wonder why 🤔😂
@@citizenpb cant for the life of me think why🤣🤣🤣
It's such a beautiful town and I'm so happy I live there to
If you rub Dock leaves on nettle stings it eases it a little
The Gun Site, on the Marine Drive were part of the WW11 defense I believe. The houses next to them are on Lys Helig Drive or Millionaires Row.
In the video the comments about Llandudno be the worse town according to an Instagram comment is a bit harsh I thought.
Very impressed with these comments. Thank you all for replying. I'm welsh and I've learned a ton reading through this. Great recap guys and I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to Wales!
Wales is the most beautiful place. It's a shame you didn't do Portmeirion, that would have fried your brain as it has very mediteranian buildings. It was used in the British TV series The Prisoner. It's very pretty, though very touristy. Also the Pembrokeshire coast has some absolutely stunnings spots, as does Snowdonia National Park and the Brecon Beacons. Then there is Conwy and Conwy Castle. Caernarfon Castle and Cardiff Castle and Devil's Bridge and..............................well, so much more to be explored. Should you ever come to the UK again you could spend the whole time exploring Wales and never get bored.
and Caerphilly Castle, one of the most complex water defenses in Europe
Not to mention the Gower, which has some of the best beaches in the world and is also the UK’s first designated area of outstanding natural beauty.
The Welsh refer to their country as Cymru. "Welsh" is Anglo Saxon for foreigner!
Regards Ian Duckworth.
You can find abandoned pillboxes and gun emplacements all around the British Isles, and not just on the coast, but at bridges and other strategic locations inland. You need to remember that for six years we were at the closest just 21 miles from Nazi-occupied Europe and constantly in fear of invasion or raids from sea and air.
We call the wide pavement (sidewalk) beside the beach, a promenade, hence the verb to 'promenade' or walk slowly to be seen.
Regularly shortened to prom.
During the first lockdown those goats came down off of Great Orme into the town as no one was outside to scare them away.
My favourite thing during lockdown
The Bush you touched was most likely Stinging nettles, if you look near it you will find dock leaves if you crush them and rub the juice on the sting it takes the pain away
I'm very surprised if they had not come across stinging nettles in the US. Even though they are native to Europe they are very widespread. I encountered them (i.e. was stung) in the lower Nepalese Himalaya!
Vinegar is great for nettle stings.
They're the most dangerous natural thing in Wales, pretty tame :) New South Wales, the other side of the world, on the other hand... Well loads of flora and fauna can kill you!
I'm not suprised that you didn't hear much Welsh spoken in Llandudno because it is a tourist centre for English residents from the major cities of Manchester, Liverpool, the Wirral and other parts of England. Further West and South you would find that Welsh is the first language although practically everyone will also speak English, unless they are a perhaps a small pre-school child. The language seems difficult to pronounce but is easy when you understand that the Welsh alphabet has more vowels and letters than English and that alphabet letters are also pronounced very differently from English. The "u" in Welsh is pronounced like a short "i" in English. The double L "Ll" is hard to explain because it's spoken with a wide mouth and through the teeth and sometimes incorrectly by the English as "clan". You will see words like "cwm" but if you know that the "w" is pronounced like "oo" the word can easily be spoken as sounding like "koom". It's a beautiful phonetic language and it predates English as an ancient Celtic language.
The most common place in North Wales you can hear Welsh spoken in supermarkets. Not so much with the staff, but between the customers. I love hearing Welsh being spoken with English words spattered in sentences! 😎
I don't speak Welsh but my mother and both my step daughters speak it fluently and all say that cwm is pronounced more 'come' than 'coom'. Maybe it's a south vs north Wales difference?
I think all the flags are to make our 'foreign' visitors feel welcome and express gratitude in advance, since a place like that thrives -- or depends more like -- on tourist trade.
The reason the water was warmer in Llandudno compared to Portobello beach by Edinburgh where you went previously is probably because of the Gulf Stream - warm water arrives all the way from the Gulf of Mexico all along the west coast of Great Britain - but doesn't make it into the North sea at Portobello! See Inverewe gardens, west coast of Scotland - 'a wide range of sub-tropical plants surviving in the Scottish Highland due to the Gulfstream'.
It's all the Atlantic, at the end of the 24-hour diurnal cycle you see, you were right all along! 🙂🙃🙂
There's a small island on the west coast of Scotland called Seil - about 15 or 20 miles or so south of Oban. At low tide you could probably wade across a few metres of water to it as I recall. There is a not very large stone bridge, a beautiful stone arch, connecting the island to the mainland - the Clachan bridge. Look up 'Clachan bridge images' - it's stunning, with it's setting.
In arguably a typically romantic, facetious and imaginative west Highland way, they call this 'the Bridge over the Atlantic'. A bit like they call the single track road across Mull 'the Mull motorway'.
Anyway, by rights that stretch of water should be called 'the Sound of Seil' - maybe it is too, but it is also, you see, according to the locals, the Atlantic! 🙂🙃🙂
I live in Pembrokeshire in west wales am I’m glad your enjoying yourself
Llandudno is lovely. A favourite place…. To pronounce it, push air out from your lungs with the back of your tongue near the roof of your mouth - a claggy sort of sound - and then move your tongue into the ‘L’ at the start.
If you get stung by a stinging nettle, you need to find a dock leaf to rub on the sting. The dock leaf sap counteracts the sting and they grow together often in similar locations
Next time, drive up to the top of the Orme by the tram route and catch the sun set from the top. It an incredible experience. Makes a wonderful picture.
For future reference, wherever there are stinging nettles you generally find dock leaves nearby. Rubbing a leaf on the rash takes the sting away. Just thought I'd mention it if you ever come across them again. Ps Stinging nettles make lovely tea 😊
A stinging nettle has never invited me around for any!
These dock leaves definately work. Personal experience.😟
As a kid I'd get stung a lot because I was always out climbing trees and stuff and you get used to them, you kind of build up a tolerance and the sting doesn't last long or bother you much. As an adult I just waded through a load remembering they weren't that bad just a short mild irritation but the sting didn't go away it hurt for a whole day with huge raised bumps everywhere. I think the tolerance wore off.
@@iriscollins7583 I think docks are alkaline which combats the acid in the nettle.
Just remember you need to rub hard enough to break the leaf up and release the sap.
The door you had a problem locking used a multi point locking system, pushing the handle up engages the top and bottom lock bolts and locks mortice lock levers before releasing the barrel for the key to turn. The system is common with UPVC doors in the UK as installing them reduces house insurance costs.
My backdoor needs the handle to be shoved up really hard, often more than once, the door has dropped out of square as the UPVC unit was not designed to take the weight of a very heavy double glazed with laminated glass unit but only a toughned glass one. (Local building regs.)
Please please check out Tenby in West Wales. its magical.
Agreed - and there are so many other wonderful places nearby to visit.
Snowdonia is stunning. You will love it.
Llandudno is lovely. Jogging that road around the great orme is fantastic. Also, they do fireworks off the pier for bonfire night and you can watch for free from the promenade (aka "wide sidewalk")
Also - the next town over (Conwy) has a lovely castle, and once a year they put on Shakespeare inside the castle walls, it's fantastic.
When you say the begining bit Llan put your tongue to the roof of your mouth when you say Plan, then release your tongue and say dud no then say altogether guys. 😊 There's a part of Wales called the Gower, so many stunning beaches like Llandudno, so next time you come to the UK, maybe try other parts of Wales, you won't be disappointed, maybe try our local food too.🏴 We have huge pride in our country, so yeah you will see our flags everywhere.🏴 We have a lot of sheep cause Wales eats more lamb than other parts of the UK, we export a lot of lamb too, plus the wool, so make sense to have a lot, a good supply.🏴. Makes me very happy that you enjoyed your time in my country, glad you did guys.🏴
Usually You will find a painkiller close to Nettles , it is a large leaf plant that you rub over the sting it's called a Bayleaf.
A lot of American troops were stationed in Wales during the war. Many in Llandudno .
‘Wide sidewalk’ - aka The Promenade at UK seaside towns, because in the olden days people promenaded along the seaside showing off in their best clothes.
An ancient version of Welsh was spoken in nearly all of Britain before the Anglo-Saxons arrived & old English began to develop and eventually become the language it is today. Interestingly is likely that people whose ancestry is basically 'English' do have a lot of ancient British heritage combined with Anglo-Saxon heritage, so we share a lot of links with the Welsh. And mercifully there are lots of people in both countries who have neither ancient British not Anglo-Saxon blood who have equal claim to to the entire country & the individual countries within it. Long may that continue 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
You both need to come back and do a tour of just Wales you'll love it. You missed so many good things in Llandudno but you weren't to know. The war memorial is at the start of the main pier you probably walked past it twice kinda hard to miss 😂 Harlech, caernarfon, anglesey and Conwy when you do your Welsh tour avoid Rhyl
So glad you guys visited Wales! There’s so many hidden gems to explore so when you think you’ve seen it all, you might be mistaken! Make sure to visit snowdonia national park, it’s the jewel in the crown!
I've been watching this series quite intently. I'm glad you were able to experience the UK in your own way and find your own adventures here, and hopefully you'll return someday and mange to explore even more.
I'd love to see your experience of the lake district, west country, or even explore our industrial past in the Midlands. You seem to have a knack for going off the beaten path a bit.
Would love to see you guys in South Wales if you can manage it, all of Wales has its charms and South Wales is no different. Cardiff has amazing shopping and night life and Barry has some amazing beaches as does most of the south coast.
The pier is grade 2 listed. The smaller 'piers' are fishing jettys, in summer you can go on boat ride off them. You were right in not getting in the sea, Llandudno has a tonne of jellyfish. Again you missed alot of the orme, the tramway, the museum at the top, tabogon run, zip wire, ski slope, the cable cars, alice in wonderland woodland trail. Its pronnounced ' Clan-dud-no' by the welsh but the rest of the uk pronounce is Lan-dud-no
Really looking forward to your recap of Snowdonia. North Wales is where I was brought up and I've climbed Snowdon many, many times. The whole area is breathtaking - just hope you get good weather to appreciate it best. Safe travels.
I lived in London for a couple of years and boy did I miss the sea. Watching the sea, the clouds in the sky and the curve of the earth on the horizon is magical. The sea and clouds changing colour as the sun moves around our spinning world is utterly glorious. I know there are huge spaces and endless skies in the midwest but the ocean is truly magical. I can really see you loved it.
you want beautiful beaches go down the Gower in Swansea or any where in Pembrokshire if you ever come to Wales again then you will see how beautiful our little country is
I unplugged my ear phones and played to my mother how you both said Llandudno.... She spat her wine out roaring laughing!!!!!! Absolutely hilarious !!! Welsh is difficult for practically everybody to pronounce even for us natives! But when it is spoken it is beautiful. Great vid guys :D
Great Orme Head, which you drove around has about 3 miles of Bronze Age (3700 years ago) caves and mines beneath the surface. They were mining for copper.
Glad you enjoyed Llandudno. Hope you get to see some of North Wales castles, Conwy & Caernarfon to name just two. By the way, we call those winds “Lazy Winds”, because it's too lazy to go around you but rather go straight through you!
Conwy is definitely worth a visit also
They weren't mountains near the sea, they're cliffs. Wait til you drive through Snowdonia. You'll see mountains there 😉
Hi Angie and Ethan
The sidewalk along the beach is called the promenade or esplanade. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
Obviously you need to hike up Mount Snowdon at some point. Caernarfon is another interesting place to visit and definitely recommend going into the castle itself.
Hi! I think the plant you walked into was a Nettle, it’s everywhere. It’s roots are very hard to get rid of from a garden. It’s brilliant for butterfly’s as they lay their eggs on it. The hairs you can just see act like the stingers on telly fish just not so poisonous, an old traditional remedy is to get a “Dock leaf” it’s a short plant with large leaves about 6 to 9inch long, and you rub the stung area and it will take the sting away after a bit. Usually called an old wives tale. People have events in the UK to see how many you can eat. Ball up and boiled it makes a healthy tea. It is also the origin of the term “he’s been nettled”. As someone who looks a bit worried or upset.
dont know if you hit south wales but our tilde range in the south wales is big in Swansea where i am its 12 to 13 meters or 39ft from low to high tide vs the 6m one in Llandudno , south got the2nd highest range in the world it shocks and catches a lot of visitor's out, and to stop the stingy nettles you can use a doc leaf or vinegar and it stops the stinging fast
You found Stinging Nettles then, if you had looked around, nearby would have been the antidote to the sting, the Dock Plant, the leaves are a natural antiseptic and soap, just crush them and rub on the stings, it has large dark green leaves, looks a bit like a wild Horseradish plant. Stinging nettles make a nice anti oxident tea and are a great tasting veg, the sting is neutralised by cooking or immersion in hot water. They are also wrapped around Cornish Yarg Cheese and are eaten with the cheese.
So much to see in Wales, beautiful views, love it!
Tha k you for the lovely words on out country. Its a beautiful country for sure.. I can travel from the seemingly run down city I live in here in Wales to breathtaking mountains and rivers, coastlines within half an hour which helps the feeling of the run down city of Newport..
Not many people speak Welsh to be honest. It's on our signs and I've learned to recognise the Welsh translation but I don't speak it at all. The smaller villages in the very north and the very south west speak it a lot though.
Pleased you enjoyed Wales it is a beautiful country, l spent many holidays there when l was a child. If you do get stung by nettles, there is normally another plant grows next to it called a doc leaf. It looks simular to rubarb, take a leaf and rub it on the sting and it will go. Done this so many times in my life and it always works.
Llandudno is lovely but it’s a pity you didn’t get to south west Wales along the Pembrokeshire coast. A truly stunning part of the country with the picture perfect coastal town of Tenby being a must see place to visit!
England beyond Wales?
@@iriscollins7583 we are still Proud Welsh.
Don't forget Gower!
Llandudno is the sort of place in the the UK that people move to after retiring from work. So basically the pier is geared for grandparents and grandchildren.
The Goats from Llandunno come down into the town and eat the flowers in the gardens , Also they select a billy Goat as a mascot for the Welsh Guards and is paraded on the Rugby field on International Rugby days
So pleased you enjoyed Wales 🏴
As an ex-resident (not native) of North Wales, I am glad you enjoyed it there. I lived neat Portmadog and so have a softer spot for that part - also the water is warmer!
I agree with Steve. The Lleyn Peninsula, near Portmadoc, has also some of the finest sandy beaches; many of them completely deserted and flanked by beautiful bays and rugged cliffs. I swim in the sea there frequently even in the winter when the sea, or ocean, feels much warmer than it might on a hot summers day.
Yep Lleyn peninsula is great and I have so much love for the vintage railways from my childhood and now Baz's.
I think the cave may have been an old sewage outlet.
I think you encountered what is called nettles. Dark green pointed leaves coming from a single stem.
You took me back to when I was about your age when I visited Llandudno, saw Conwy Castle and took the train up into the mountains. So beautiful.
Glad you loved our stunning country
It's called 'para-sailing' 🤣
Great video guys, happy that you loved Wales 🏴 It is a stunning place, lovely people w. melodic voices and eclectic weather
(next time you have to visit the west coast of Scotland, too)
hello from Denmark 🌸🌱
thought it was kite surfing
Just for future reference. When driving on UK motorway/ freeway, you stay on the left. Middle and outside lanes are for overtaking only. There are fines for middle lane drivers who don't move back to the left.
Kinda like you guys. Not my normal watch on TH-cam but I’m enjoying watching the videos you’re posting of your uk tour. I’m glad you’re having fun and wish you all the best for whatever you do going forward 😊
Great video guys. I’m so glad you enjoyed our amazing little island. I’m English but I love Wales and Scotland and Ireland too. You should read Notes from a small Island by Bill Bryson. Brilliant and funny and informative travel book about an American in the UK. Keep up the good work x
Hello Ethan and Angela. I hope you come back soon and do more UK coast and out of town spots.
I visited Wales a couple of times for university wargames championships in Bangor, where we English definitely stood out to Welsh speaking local folk in the town.
I used to love it on holiday in Wales as a kid. I wish you could have brought the kids with you.
The next time you're over I'll plot a journey for you 😁
It's called the Fairy Trail.
It goes from Chester (a 2000 year old Roman city again with a wall), to Llangollen (a pretty hill town along the same river Dee that Chester is on), then through the hills to Corwen where tiny waterfalls trickle past tree lined roads, then the mountain village of Betws y Coed where you can picnic on the Common underneath an iron age Fort, then to Llanrwst, a market town with views of the Conwy valley, then Conwy with the sea and ancient Castle and the town within it, then along the coast road back to Chester. It is the land of King Arthur, dragons, and hundreds of legends like Paulag's Cat (a cat the size of a dragon) and a very good boy who is the most loyal dog called Gelert and died protecting his family from wolves. 😁🏴
If your planning the trip from Chester to Llangollen make sure you put in a narrow boat across the Pontcycylle at least to Trevor, better still all the way upto Llangollen wharf
@@davehopkin9502 ^this!
At time 9:36 There are two peaks on the left of the picture. The peak on the right is the remains of Deganwy Castle, actually older than Conwy Castle on the other side of the estuary, and I live in one of the houses just below!
I'm pleased you enjoyed your road trip around the Orme on Marine Drive (I go picking blackberry picking there at this time of year) as well as a highlight on your adventure here in Wales and the UK. If I'd known you were coming...
North Wales coast is so beautiful, so glad you enjoyed it. Can't believe you drove Passed Chester on the way which has been voted the most Beautiful City in Britain. So glad you're enjoying your trip.
Llandudno, is my girlfriend and I's favourite place. We have some many happy memories here, and we visit every chance we get. So glad you enjoyed it too..
I just love watching you two. I really feel your enthusiasm for things, and you communicate things so well. Your videos are a tonic!
Dock leaves 🍃 that's what cures the stingy nettles
Maintenance on Piers is high, due to winter storms. Ours at Cromer had a barge that lost its morings , cut it in half, one winter. Glad to see you did drive, hope it was okay.
The Marine Drive is the road that skirts the Great Orme.
Shame you didn’t stop at Chester en route from York to Llandudno - it’s not far off your route and very small and nice with city walls all the way around. Whilst at Llandudno did you get to Conwy, again not very far away and the castle is amazing.
The UK has some of the biggest tides in the world. It’s one of the things we do bigger than the USA!
You two are so brilliant and engaging! I live about 50 miles away from Llandudno (in Cheshire) but have only visited a few times. However, I've never been on that 'Toll Road' - so thank you for that. You did really well, Nathan, to drive from York to North Wales - I recognised the A55 you drove along - the start of it is not very far from me! Keep up the great work guys - you distract us from all of the 'depressing' and 'worrying' stuff! Best wishes from the UK (sadly, now, a nation in mourning)!
Great to follow your travels, you two - and as they like to say in Wales:
_Diolch am siopa yn Marks & Spencer_
I once missed the evening meal at the hotel when I was a child because I was watching the tide become high tide - but each day high tide is one hour later. My mum had been worried where I was…
Your Mountains and Oceans are hills and seas to us
The thing with hiring cars is you need to specify 'automatic' - manual gearboxes are more common and will be the general default vehicle. Also you need to have a licence for a manual gearbox - if you learned to drive in an automatic you cannot drive a manual. However, if you have a manual licence you can drive an auto.
The Old glory you saw, was just random for tourists - you mentioned a war memorial, that's further towards the Pier.
After the amazing city of York with the Minster you did well to find Llandudno where you could enjoy the scenery and just enjoy walking around. Apart from doors and driving in London you both seem so relaxed and comfortable on your adventure.
Watch out for the 'stinging nettles'. They have quite distinctive foliage so you can spot them once you have got used to them. Usualy where there are stinging nettles there a 'doc leaves'. A plant with big leaves that you can press onto where you have been stung and it will ease it.
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, beside the seaside. Beside the sea. 😜 "The ocean was directly below us". DOH!!! She'll get it right someday. Who knew they had special doors in Wales. 😂😂
During the Covid lockdown some of the goats that you seen from the Great Orme came down and "invaded" Llandudno Town centre!! It made the national news, you can see clips on TH-cam.
I am so so so so so glad you enjoyed Llandudno so much. That said though, having visited in the last year, it's, to me, the most depressing and run down seaside place I've been to. Which is part of why I'm so glad you got so much from it. But when you come back, you should be able to find many places you love even more while still having these great memories. So thanks to you here, next time somebody asks me about Llandudno, I'll be less negative.
In future if you get stung by nettles put some vinegar on the sting - it will help reduce it.
So glad that you love the U.K , pity you didn't get time to visit the very ancient Copper mines near Llandudno , i think that you'll love Snowdonia , try to visit Carmarthen and Conwy castles if you can they're very old and still intact .
When COVID first started and everybody was staying in the goats came down into town
The goats were wandering round the deserted town centre. It made the national news! 🙂
I’ve been where you’ve been today so often but have missed things you have seen on one visit, thank you.
I've very happy memories of going to South Wales as a kid on holiday, we'd go to a place called the Gower Peninsula which has some amazing beaches.....So pleased you enjoyed your visit to the UK, be sure to come back soon!
And Gower has actual sand on the beaches too!
We used to stay in Eynon regularly. Great kite flying beach.
Worms head and rhossili bay are fantastic too!
Hello there from Gower!
@@welshgit Hello Welshgit!
@@sicr7373 I hope you get a chance to visit sunny Gower again soon!
Those smaller wooden piers are what we call a jetty. You can use them for things like tying up boats etc
For stinging nettles, you could've used an antihistamine cream to ease the burning sensation
Yes, we are very proud of our flag. Btw, I also have an American flag. My one actually came off of one of the US frigates back in the 50's. I forget which one though. I have it up on my bedroom wall. And yes my gf is Brazilian-American, serving in the USAF in TX.
Th sheep up in the mountains aren't wild. Farmers let them roam the mountains. This makes them pretty hardy and when you eat Welsh lamb, you will find very little to no fat and gristle. English sheep are full of it. Only other lamb that comes close to welsh lamb is New Zealand lamb, but they're not quite as hardy as ours.
North Wales is a beautiful country & its people are the friendliest in the UK, I knew you'd enjoy your stay in Wales I've been many times myself & have always enjoyed myself 🏴🏴
Love the two of you doing these reviews, thanks. Really glad you enjoyed the little bit of our country that you have seen. Please come back and enjoy it some more...
That locking system isn’t just in Wales, I had it in my old house and I live in the South East of England. They take a bit of getting used to ! Loving your videos 👍🏻 you two are just naturals at vlogging
Believe it or not, Llandudno is pronounced as "(h)Landidno", and you thought that English was difficult! FYI, the "mountain" there is called the Great Orme
(I've no idea why). I'm sure Ethan encountered a weed that we call the Stinging Nettle for obvious reasons.....................................the ancient Englishman.
yes, you can get a free exfoliation on N Wales beaches on a windy day. The sand is pretty sharp.
I you stood in nettles, very common in the UK and always close by is a plant calls Dock leaf, we normally take the Dock leaf, screw it up and rub it on the affected area, the juice/sap neutralizes the sting
It's all technically the ocean, it's just in the olde English language Sea means in general broad therms a place where the tide comes in and out, this can be anywhere inland like a tidal river or on the coast or an estuary. So it basically in general terms means a place on the tide where there is a tide. This explains how there are places called NAME+SEA in inland towns on a tidal rivers.
I’m not sure who would tell you that North Wales, or Llandudno in particular is not nice or not worth a visit. Llandudno is a really lovely seaside town. Very well kept and with plenty to see. Downside is it can get very busy during the summer.
Also very close to the historic town of Conwy, with its castle. Well worth the short bus ride.
I would say that anyone who said that about Llandudno has never been there!
Rhyl on the other hand...
North Wales I love but I was one of the Llandudno dislikes on Insta. I was there last year on a sunny day.
Maybe someone who liked sand?! :-)
@@welshgit do you ever get sand up your bum as a non sander I've always bin curious
Your recaps are always great & such a good idea. It fills in all the ‘gaps’ that you don’t discuss at the time so thanks again. The Welsh coastline is spectacular for the very simple reason that it’s so accessible. That road up the Great Orme is such a great drive. We’re all hoping you can make it back to spend a little longer in the various places you visit. Best wishes as always.
It is so refreshing to see and hear great things said about the area where I grew up. Thank you for being so kind about one of the most beautiful areas of Wales. Next time you come over, give me a call and I'll give you a locals' version of a guided tour. Free of charge! Croeso i Ogledd Cymru!🏴
Thank you for your kind offer!
Oh those sting nettles are evil 😈. I remember playing as a kid, one some and falling in a bush of them. I was only in shorts and balled my eyes out 😭
So you found the pleasures of stinging nettles. As a child I had a reputation for falling into stinging nettles, once so I was stung so bad I actually ended up in hospital, I'm the only person I know who ever bot that badly stung. If you can find dock leaves to rub on the sting it does lessen it.
Welsh pride is best seen when the crowd sing at the national rugby stadium in Cardiff before an international rugby match. I've had the privilege of being in the stadium at full volume and it's amazing. There is a cd recording called Gwald Gwlad made several years ago in the old stadium when Wales played New Zealand. It captures a lot of the atmosphere especially when listened to on headphones.
Check wikipedia - dock leaves do not actually work, it's all placebo! Oh, and it's Gwlad, Gwlad
Do dock leaves actually work? No
And yet, the efficacy of the dock leaf in countering the chemicals released by Urtica dioica - the nettle - is dismissed by modern pharmacology. Scientists claim that the juice released from the leaves of Rumex obtusifolius has 'no pharmacologically relevant properties'- in other words, it does absolutely nothing.21 Aug 2021
@@meiriongwril9696 Wikipedia on 'dock leaves' says 'This home remedy is not supported by any science [yet!], although it is possible that the act of rubbing may act as a distracting counterstimulation, or that belief in the dock's effect _may_ provide a placebo effect.'
It may not be supported by science, but it is supported by my own empirical experience, many times over, and I strongly recommend it!🙂🙃🙂_
Check out Llandudno during lockdown on TH-cam all the Goats took over the town.