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Watching from north wales here 👋 I’m welsh but not a welsh speaker, my daughter who is 4 goes to a Welsh school in our village and is full on Welsh. I love that she speaks welsh. It’s hard to describe it seems like she’s a part of a clan 😂
Was on holiday in Wales last week and omg myself and my partner were constantly talking about how beautiful it is, we were staying at Mydroilyn, Lampeter near the West coast
Welsh is probably close to how the British sounded before the Danes, the Angles, the Saxons and the French invaded.
I spent most of my childhood holidays camping on Mochras (Shell Island). Done ALL the tourist stuff. Even split a slate!
A braised Welsh lamb shank is better than any steak i`ve ever had.
I still go to shell island 😄👍 belter of a campsite 👌
Your most probably correct, as Welsh is quite similar to Cornish 👍
Welsh is the oldest language in Britain, with Gaelic and the other celtic languages. English is just a mix of all the countries that conquered it, germanic, Latin, Saxon etc. Wales was never fully conquered by anyone so we have been able to hold on to our native tongue.
I am from Liverpool but many of my relatives were from Wales, Caernarfon especially.
I know exactly what you mean about trying to hear what we sound like. I have been to both Conwy and Caernarfon castles, I fed a seagull some of my sandwich at Conwy Castle, I swear it followed me, I had a Welsh ice-cream and a seagull mugged me for it, he took the entire thing in one go.
In answer to your question Connor, Liverpool and Manchester are about 30 miles apart..with completely different accents!
The Beatles' overall cultural impact and their music came as a package. The idea of a band writing their own music, as opposed to a solo artist with a backing band having music written for them, was begun by The Beatles, and became the standard for guitar-based popular music going forward. And musically, if you listen to enough of them, you realise there is something for literally everyone. Honestly, I am not one for hype either, but The Beatles actually deserve theirs and beyond. It's funny I even have to say this. They require no defence. You have to listen to more and more, they were more prolific than any other band. If you doubt them even a bit, you have not heard enough. Most people are not fully familiar with them because their music is rarely heard in media. That is because they are under tight publishing regulations, so their music is never heard on TV, advertising or film. This is why many young people have heard their name but not their music, and so they naturally jump to the perspective that they are overhyped. Don't worry, their legacy is firmly and untouchably fixed in history. There will never be a wildly-held revisionist perspective of their legacy
Although I am English, my Dad's family came from North Wales & it is so beautiful. The Welsh language is wonderful - and to be in a crowd & join in with the national anthem sends shivers down your spine ❤️
Moving back to Wales next month after 2 years away. Can't wait. Not actually Welsh but have lived there 25 years. The county I'm moving to has 7 castles
Beautiful, I'm half Welsh and English. I spent a lot of time in Wales, my grandmother lived in Bangor. I used to spend my summer school vacations there just after the second world war. There was a milk dairy across from my grandmother's house, on Caernarfon road and when I was about 6, I would help deliver milk with a man from the dairy, on a horse and trap, over the Menai bridge. I have fond memories of beautiful Wales. I envy you, I've lived in the US for the last 40 years, best of luck.
@@philipashley9723 wow, what a life you've led my friend 🙏
You see a video of North Wales and are fascinated. I am glad my great grands were from Caernarfon but do not be fooled to think that is all there is to Wales. The country of Mid-Wales and the coastal areas of West and South Wales are equally glorious. The coal mines of South Wales are dead now and nature is healing them up nicely making our countryside live again. The Brecon Beacons are as beautiful as Snowdonia in a gentler way but don't tell the Army! The Black Mountains are lovely; not to be confused with the Black Mountain. But you will only know these things if you come and see Wales as a whole. It is not big doable in a fortnight but big enough to last a lifetime.
21.10 "When I think of slate, I think of very crumbly rock.." - WRONG, the total opposite. Welsh slate (especially) was used throughout the UK and exported across the world for roofing tiles. They last for hundreds of years. So NOT crumbly at all. Hard wearing, impenetrable by rain and heavy to withstand gusts of wind, slate tiles are still the prefered (natural) choice for many building jobs.
That video was basically my life 😂 being a biker, fisherman, outdoorsman on the Welsh border this is my daily playground between Conwy and Liverpool ...well lush init 😍👌
26:00 funny you should say that. We went up that railway in primary school, probably between 7 and 9 years old and the engine failed and started to roll backwards until it collided with a second engine a few hundred feet behind.
Hi connor, Liverpool to Manchester about 30 miles, the first inter city railway in the world in 1830.
Hi Connor. I’ve lived all my life in Wales, South mostly, although I’ve toured most of Wales. My middle brother moved to Bala and that’s in the Snowdonia National Park on the Eastern edge. We have an old saying that if you smoothed out (ironed out the bumps our mountains and hills) the the surface area would be bigger than England!
Mount Snowden (Yr Wydffa in Welsh) is the highest mountain in both Wales and England at 1085 metres or 3560 feet above sea level. There are many signposted paths to the summit but it can get busy. However, there is a rack & pinion railway, either steam or diesel from Llanberis to the summit.
By the side of Llanberis lake is the Slate Museum.
I live in North Wales, it's a beautiful part of the world, just so much to see and do.
But it is not the whole of Wales. I wish video makers would remember that.
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey it's a video about North Wales though, there are plenty of videos about south Wales and every other part of the UK.
Wow! How can you have lived so long without having tasted lamb? In Wales, as in Australia and New Zealand, lamb and mutton are eaten as often as pork and beef. Veal is common in most of Europe. Venison and game birds are on the menu too. Goat is eaten across Africa.
Connor, you are always welcome to come to Wales, especially up here in the North. It is truly beautiful!
True story, my friends and I used to walk up Snowdon every weekend by trails, then walk down the rail track, then get drunk at the pub in Llanberis or Betws-y-Coed.
One time, we were walking back down the railway which was partially covered in snow.
We came upon 3 policemen not dressed for the mountain. They were eating sandwiches and drinking tea from a flask at the side of the track.
"Sydych chi, Heddlu?" (How are you, copper?) I asked. He pointed to an arse shaped imprint in the snow. It appears a tourist sat down to enjoy his sandwiches and tea, leaned back, and slid off the mountain. His body was found a thousand metres below. As his arse print was a crime scene the coppers had to stay there. ... so they thought they'd help themselves to his sandwiches and tea. Grim but funny.
I'm guessing that would have been the Killer Convex which has taken many lives, one slip and you're catapulted off the Clogwyn Coch cliffs, without an ice axe and the skill to self arrest it's impossible to slow down because of the convex slope.
Watching them cross crib goch in the snow is the scariest vid on TH-cam 😮👍
One of my friends fell to his death there a few years ago in the snow, he loved going up there and he went there frequently, it just goes to show that it does not matter how well you know the mountain its still a really dangerous place, the weather can change in an instant and people can still get into difficulty even with all of the correct gear, it can be clear one minute then the next thing you know there is fog everywhere.
England has the Lake District which is comparable to Snowdonia in height of mountains and ruggedness, but Scotland is more rugged with many more mountains over a much larger area, it has the most extreme and rugged terrain found in the UK. The train on Snowdon is rack and pinion so it can't slide backwards, if you look at the track there's a row of teeth which gears fitted to the train turn and grab hold of to pull the train uphill, normal trains are very limited to the angle of slope they can climb.
I'm most surprised that you haven't had lamb, which is a staple of ours, Welsh lamb especially. Venison has a strong 'gamey' taste; hind is less gamey than stag. Juniper berries tend to counteract the gaminess. Venison stew is wonderful. All wild game tends not to have not much fat - the wild animals don't have the leisure - so when cooking partridge, etc. you have to put bacon on it to supply some fat.
Liverpool and Manchester are not far apart, but are totally different cities, with utterly different accents.
Growing up, my mother mostly bought lamb, we had roast lamb at least three times a month. Welsh and Australian lamb were considered the best, during my early life ln England during the second world war. My mother used to buy 2 whole lamb a year, the butcher cut it into the cuts she wanted and it was kept in a bench freezer. I've lived in the US for the past 40 years but have never had lamb, because I heard US lamb is in fact, an older sheep known as mutton in Britain. Mutton is usually tough and hard to chew, I'm inclined to believe this is why not many Americans like lamb?
This must be an old video, Conway/Conwy still has a Woolworths!
Hello from North Wales Connor! Hope you get to visit one day. Definitely come in summer lol
The reason a lot of the houses look similar, built with the same materials, was because mostly, the materials, mostly stone, were local to that area so access to them was easier.
I'll give the narrator his dues - he at least learned how to pronounce the Welsh place names. Not perfect, but you can see he's made the effort.
I'm curious as to why Liverpool was lumped in with a video about North Wales though. There's surely enough just in North Wales to make a whole video!
I was wondering why Liverpool was in it as well. There is more than enough in North wales. The 7 wonders of Wales are all in North Wales and that's just a start. We have the Menai Straight with puffin island, sea lions, all the other Beeches, the rest of snowdonia. There was no reason to drag England into it at all. Not to mention that Liverpool itself has its own rich culture and history, not just the Beetles.
Terrace houses were cheaper to build and took up less room. Like NY brownstones
I lived on Anglesey for 3 years, when my husband was in the RAF. It rained an awful lot !
2 things make Connor's eyes really light up. Castles and grass 🙂Love the helmet by the way !
Lamb is the tastiest of the red meats imo.
What you miss about the Beatles was their uniqueness. You won`t get that 60 years later.
Very interesting to see my part of the world through someone else’s eyes.
In this video, at least, the reason that the houses are all the same is that they were built for miners and their families by the mine owners.
... and built relatively quickly, to the same basic pattern.
Spent all my summers in North Wales when I lived in Pembrokeshire in West Wales...beyond magical. Llanberis Pass, Caernarfon Castle, Betws-y-Coed, Portmeirion, Anglesey. It is still the best place I have ever seen.
Wales, is the land of song.
Weaving looms have two (or more) sets of warp, threads set on the loom running from front to back and running through needles, then the weft (the horizontal threads) run in and out of the warp, in simple weaving every other warp thread is lifted up by the needle leaving the other down, the weft is then threaded across the weft by a "flying shuttle" which has a spool of thread inside it, the needles are revedsed and the shuttle travels back to its starting position...
My grandfather had hefted sheep who roamed freely on the hills. Come winter they would go down to a certain gate where my grandfather and his collie would gather and take them down to the lower pastures. On the hills they mixed with sheep from others farms. Separated out by the colour on their rumps. However the foot and mouth epidemic had them culled because if a sheep on one farm had the disease all sheep were culled because grey grazed together. Those sheep were half feral and very smart. If a stranger came to their field they would charge them as a flock and scrape them against the flint walls. No chance of sheep rustling there. They have now been replaced by low land dim placid sheep. I miss them, bad tempered as they were.
Much of the older housing in UK was built during the industrial revolution by the owners of mills , mines , factories , shipyards etc to house workers and their families . It was obviously cheaper and more practical and quicker to build rows and streets of the same design than have different designs and layouts. Even today there are thousands of streets in UK named after the families of these owners . Examples such as Ethel St , Ada St , Alfred St are commonplace but many were demolished in the 60s and 70s as they were unfit or unsuitable for modern families.
Welsh is a beautiful language - I've tried to learn it and speak a little, haltingly. This video might interest you - it's an Italian singer singing (well, rapping) in gibberish that is what English sounds like to Italians! th-cam.com/video/-VsmF9m_Nt8/w-d-xo.html And yes, Liverpool and Manchester are close - about 35 miles apart - but have a fierce rivalry. Think Baltimore and Washington DC or New York and Jersey City.
I’m off there for 4 nights on Saturday. I love North Wales ❤
Can’t wait to go to Parisellas in Conwy..nom nom nom 😋
With regards to your comment about the Beatles, probably some people hearing their early music today would not find it as good if they are comparing it to the pop music in the current era, and like you, will wonder what all the fuss was about. However, when they came on the scene in the early 1960's, their music was a completely different style and sound compared to everything else that was around at that time, and they had a very different look from the pop stars of the 1950's. A lot of musicians in recent times found their inspiration in the Beatles' music.
Perfectly said Jaqueline 🙏
" before Elvis there was nothing"
John Lennon
Born and raised in Holywell North Wales,moved away 20 years ago and the hiraeth (homesickness) hits me sometimes. I'm so proud of where im from and am pleased to see others love it too
I ate meat for 30 years and game is some of the tastiest meat around, venison especially. Definitely worth trying. Also love Wales, did a week there on a work thing and am definitely going back soon.
I've had pheasant a few times. Very nice, lean and very irony, if there's such a word.
That's nothing other than a video lording the greatness of the English conquerer, he didn't seek out the Welsh point of view, yes we have all the castles but we didn't want them 😂.
Having experienced, as a child mind, the 1960s the culture, music etc. It grates on me that we now constantly pay homage to the Beatles and forget what it was really like to live in that era and that not everyone was a Beatles fan and there were other groups besides them who are now mostly forgotten compared to the Beatles.
North Wales is dotted with many great places to visit…just if you ever visit, don’t end up in Rhyl. Just…for your own safety…don’t go to Rhyl.
Go to Bangor, or Llandudno, or Anglesey Island, Snowdonia National Park too, Caernarfon and that infamous town of ahem…
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 💪🏼
never had lamb? come on bro
He's probably eaten horse. Just doesn't know it yet. 😉
They don't really eat it in USA.
As someone whose first language isn't either Welsh or English, the two sound nothing alike. I find a good way to hear what English sounds like is to listen to Simlish (the language they speak in The Sims), though their inflection is heavily leaning toward Californian, so it might not work if you think that sounds normal.
It is impossible to hear whether it sounds nice to other people, kind of like I have a hard time hearing that German sounds rough to English speakers, or that French sounds nice or whatever: I just think they sound like French or German because I've known them for most of my life.
For many years, I found American accents to be annoying because of the r-sound since it really affects how the vowels sound in a way that used to sound unpleasant to my ears, but I've grown to just find it normal now.
What is 'The Sims'?
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey it's a famous video game series that's over 20 years old. You create "Sims" i.e simulated people, whole families even. Give them jobs etc and live out a virtual life. You can build houses too etc.
Seeing the shipping poster, my gt,gt,gt. uncle sailed with wife and two children. Arrived in New York 1866 and eventually settled in Illinois.
The venison burgers in the woodland parks are sooo yum. Only last a lil while so u gotta be there on the right week but mmmmmmm
I'm half English and half Welsh, I'm from Merseyside and, all our houses had slate roofs, the slate no doubt, brought from Wales. At the end of the video, you can see the Liverpool liver building behind Rick, the large building with the clocks on. During the second world war, when I was born, people would laugh, because although the Germans would heavily bomb Liverpool and Birkenhead, the Germans were accused of being poor marksman, always missing such a large building next to the docks, teeming with merchant ships. It was only after the war that we learned, the Germans were using the Liver building as a reference point for their bomb aimers.😁 the name Liver, is pronounced as Lyver.
See meet??? Isn't that fish. Conwy is beautiful and has great fresh food well worth a visit. If you go there you HAVE to go to Chester if you like history Chester is the place to go. It's a Roman city with a complete Roman wall around it which you can walk round. There is a red sandstone cathedral which is very pretty. The Rows are what makes Chester unusual they are a shopping walking level above the main street levels.i don't know why Chester is not properly promoted apart from the fact our council is useless. Chester should be mentioned as much as York it's that important. We do get alot of tourists but we have loads of hotels and great places to eat so a few more would be very welcome.
I live in north wales caernarfon i can see caernarfon castle through my bedroom window. And i go up the road and im met with mountines cant beat this area in my opinion for beauty. Im sorry for my english as welsh is my first language 👌👍
I don't think many Welsh people will agree with him about Edward 1st .He built 13 castles to try subdue the Welsh .
I was standing where that opening shot was an hour ago. Llandudno, North shore (the West shore is much nicer)
Harlech Castle is also epic!
I live in nth Wales I speak Welsh, but not fluently . I'm working on it though.
Wales is beautiful. Don't ask for directions though 😉
On a holiday walking in West Wales many years back, I asked a local how to get to Machynlleth. When he stopped laughing at my pronunciation of the place ('makky-nelleth'), he was quite happy to direct me (and teach me how to pronounce it properly - more like ma-khunth-leth).🙂
Beatles were ground breaking they progressed music throughout there time. Music which now you are used to once was extremely out of this world,guess you had to be there.
My favourite cheese Black bomber comes from Snowdonia. As does Led Zeppelin III which was written and partly recorded there
You've never known happiness until you've been to rhyl out of season at night in the rain....amazing.
It's always been known as 'Penny Lane' at 30:46 because originally it was a tram terminus and that was the shortest name to fit the destination board on the front of the tram. There's 5 roads intersect at this junction, Allerton Rd., Penny Lane, Smithdown Rd., Church Rd. and Heathfield Rd. It's correct address is Smithdown Place. Doesn't quite have the same ring as a song though.
2:10 the amount of times I've walked up and down that😂 was last there in 2019😅 I know all these places very well.
I live in north wales .6 miles from Conwy castle and 2 miles from Bodnant gardens .it seams to be a. Old video ? It shows Woolworths in Conwy which is no longer there ,it’s a spar shop now ( supermarket) it was nice to see north wales in a video and old familiar places 😊
Wayy, round my ends! 😂 I live about a half hour drive from Llandudno. Lovely place, just as the rest of north Wales is. This is rather close to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, I'm sure you've heard of it aha. Forgive me if it's spelled wrong, I'm not gonna look it up and go through the whole thing 😂 also don't think anyone would notice or even cares, you know the one I mean! If you ever happen to come to the UK, north Wales should definitely be on the agenda.
Hi from one of your Welsh subscribers
Went to North Wales (Snowdonia) on a school geography trip and learnt about the effect of glaciers on the region, so not really a tourist.
Did a mad 10 hour round trip drive with my young children one day in the 90s to the west of Wales (think it was Carmarthen, but hoped to get to Cardigan), before I was voted (told) to go home. Maybe because we could not understand the locals, as they were all speaking Welsh? I remember I had to stop on the way home, as I was so dehydrated. That was my memory of South Wales, so not a good one.
You are absolutely right about languages, because I speak a smattering of Thai and can understand a lot more, but when I listen to other languages, they sound "foreign" to me. When you really listen to English, it sounds very odd sometimes. Just listen to a very broad person from Newcastle area or Glasgow. There are videos out there about accents of England.
The music in the gardens reminded me of a rugby song...the hairs on her...sorry
I am from Porthmadog in North Wales , if you ever want to visit , give me a shout , id happily take you on a road trip
At one time, 40% of global trade went through Liverpool
The Jaquard loom was the most advanced machine on Eart 200 years ago. The punched cards were modified to enable the US 1890 US Census, and were eventually used for tabulating machines and mainframe computer input (I did this in college in 1975).
I was in conwy last year visiting my sister and brother in law on Holiday. It is a very beautiful town. one thing though I have been on holiday there with my family as a child, we also went there by bus or coach and never knew there was a train station.
King Edward Longshanks wasn't just the hammer of the Scots, but the hammer of the Welsh too ;-( The first English Prince of Wales was Prince Edward the Snot (gay prince in Braveheart).
Wrong!
Can't believe you've not eaten lamb, certainly plentiful in Wales as there are more sheep there than people and truly delicious the lamb that is!
I suppose the thing about the Beatles was that they changed popular music. Like Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. Nothing exciting now, but back then ...
I am old enough to have spoken only Welsh before I went to school, learnt English at school and Welsh was discouraged. Then todays the end of primary school Welsh began to be taught, only for most of the children to speak it better than the teacher 😀
I was born within the town walls of Conwy.
Yeah they lasted out well but the biggest hit was the burning of the forests, there are just a few pockets of original forest in Wales n when u come across it its like a magical portal in time
It's about 40 miles from Liverpool to Manchester by Motorway M62 West or A 580 East Lancs Road Motorway is our equivalent to Interstate
Edward I created the United Kingdom? I think not. Yes, he conquered Wales which was not officially annexed by the Kingdom of England until the 1530s. The invasion of Scotland was ultimately a failure within a couple of decades and Ireland remained politically separate until 1801.
Wales has never been conquered by England, what Is Wales without the Principality (Gwynedd) was only occupied by the Anglo and given its autonomy back in 1400 by Owain Glyndwr. The fact that Henry Vlll had to annex proves its autonomy prior to the Tudors ascending to the English Throne. People even get the fact that the Principality and Kingdom of Wales are two different things! One resides in the other and we even see evidence for this today, as the nations in The Uk are in fact - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and “England and Wales” as of 1967, the successor state to the Kingdom of England. The UK Coat of arms bares the standard of the Tudor principality alongside an identical one that represents England. These simple facts are also why the Flag of Wales isn’t on the UK Flag, as the symbol predates the Tudor use and represents the Kingdom of Wales (Not the Principality) and cannot legally be incorporated into it.
@@WalesTheTrueBritons Yes, you are right: Wales was a kingdom - for 7 years from 1057 to 1063 under Gruffydd ap Llywelyn . During other times, it contained kingdoms (e.g. Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed etc.).
Following Edward I's successful campaigns, it was declared by the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 to be under the English Crown but distinct from the Kingdom of England (which sounds to me like a personal union similar to the one between England and Scotland 1603-1707 or Great Britain and Hanover 1714-1837 but achieved through conquest rather than inheritance). Welsh law remained in place. The northern part (Gwynedd) was ruled as the Principality of Wales and there were various lordships administering the rest on the English king's behalf.
That position changed under Henry VIII when the whole of Wales was fully integrated into the Kingdom of England and the term "Principality of Wales" adopted for the whole of Wales. Welsh law was replaced throughout with English law. I hope I have it right.
I haven't been able to spot the standard of the Tudor principality on the UK Royal Coat of Arms so will need some help to identify it.
@Keith Bulley No, Wales on the whole after Annexation to English law never became a Principality, it in fact Destroyed the Principality of Gwynedd as a Separate entity to England, Think of it as residing in Wales but belonging to England,. This is the “England and Wales” still to this day. As for the Kingdoms founding, Kingdoms under international law exist in perpetuity once they are in fact created and recognised (which it was several times by Scotland, Spain, France and Ireland), this is why a separate sovereign nation cannot add any National symbol of any other Kingdom, it doesn’t matter how long it existed. There is also another reason England (Or UK as of today) cannot add The dragon to the flag, they require the crown of the Britons, which they currently don’t have, it was lost when Glyndwr went into hiding. The one Charlie used for His Coronation as “Prince of Wales” was made out of plastic! Lol. Btw, The laws of Wales on Annexation clearly stated that the Welsh now had the same rights as An Englishman, it wasn’t an annexation of subservience but rather a partnership, it wasn’t unified like Scotland and England down to the inconvenience of not having the crown to make legally binding.
@Keith Bulley The Tudor standard was identical to the English one, and was used independently of England by those of Gwynedd for Atleast 400 years. This is why you have two sets of the three lions (Leopards), if it was seen as subservient, rather than a partnership, they wouldn’t have needed to include the pair of them (Remember the Tudors were from Wales, so they no doubt wouldn’t have seen the Welsh as been subservient to England, as in its people) One represents England and the other represents the Principality of Gwynedd. The Dragon that Henry the Vll used at Bosworth hadn’t been used by those in Gwynedd since The 11th century upto that point, their main standard was three lions like England. In modern times, it now includes Four, done to differentiate between Englands one and Gwynedd one.
@@WalesTheTrueBritons The coronet worn by King Charles at his Welsh Investiture in 1969 was an abomination (containing a spray-painted plastic table tennis ball) created because the Duke of Windsor had made off with the earlier Prince of Wales' coronet made for the 1902 coronation (first worn by George V). The Duke had worn this at the 1911 coronation but it was not returned until after his death in 1972. It is a much nicer piece of headgear: hopefully we will see it in Westminster Abbey next month (especially as we are told there won't be a Welsh investiture this time).
I visited Machynlleth a few years ago where there is a parliament hall dating from the time of Owain Glyndwr.
I don't agree with you about the kingdoms: they come and go through history. You only need to look at medieval maps of central and eastern Europe to see that. No ruler of Wales ever claimed the title of "king" after the 11th century and the Pope did not recognise Wales as a kingdom in the way he did with Scotland, England, France etc.
You can jump off a pier ,not a good idea unless you're absolutely sure how deep the water is ,that will depend on the tides, two high and two low tides a day .
i moved to North Wales when i was very young, first and 2nd school esp the 2nd / high school had a welsh 1 hour lesson a 2 or 3 times a week. sadly id struggle to have a conversation in welsh, could not even pick up an easy language like french so no hope with learning welsh. but as lived there for a good length time, you can pick up on certain word, tone of it and you can get an idea what been said. my mum can speak welsh as she decided to do welsh in a college in the evenings way after her school days. every visit tend to pick up the language remember words i learn't in school. or even English but very strong welsh ascent can easy understand. in my school years my mum and uncle were involved in the castle shows, both them went in to battle armor, swards and you could really get hurt and good bruises, chain mail works well but sure very heavy, me brother went around the show in costume, with real bow and arrow and with a bird prey, some times an eagle owl huge bird or my fav the kestrel my mum kept, my brother liked the barn owl or Tawny owl. was lots fun, spent lots school holidays travelling to many welsh castles and a few great English castles like Warwick Castle. connect the caravan up and of we went in the early days, vw split screen camper with a 2.4 air cooled it was a fun way to travel wales and sounded great. North Wales will always be my home, just crossing in to wales my heart rate settles, you sorta know when you at home and when i do go back i take the long way, turn 3 hour boring motorway drive to a 7 hour drive and drive right through the center of wales and go explore a bit add a few way points to some fun mountain passes to drive over. such a pretty country, even a drive to the shops is nice drive and great views most the time
I have also wondered what English sounds like to people who don't understand it. I know exactly what you mean.
26:12 "Higher than anyone in Wales or England"
I very much doubt that! 😂
It was known as the ring of steel when Edward built the castles of north wales
Lamb, venison and ostrich are in my local supermarket, and are all very good.
Hi from Liverpool Connor 🎉❤
My Grandmother was born and lived on the Great Orme in Llandudno North Wales and had a very strong Welsh accent, she could only speak Welsh until she was 11 or 12. Now people who live in Llandudno have a Liverpudlian accent, such a shame as in my opinion the Welsh accent is a nicer accent than the Liverpool accent.
No they don’t, there are many Welsh speakers in Llandudno and as such they have the Welsh lilt , Rhyl I grant you but not Colwyn Bay or Llandudno.
Wales is the most beautiful country on Earth! The air is fresher and the people wonderful! But I am bias being Half-Welsh. lol
I've had deer (venison), moose, elk, wild boar, lamb and rabbit. All fantastic.
Shell Island in Wales is great for camping
Venison is mmm mmm Mmmmmm! Bambi in a burger please!
Me and my sister went to North Wales 2 weeks ago
Charlie was made Prince of Wales in Carnarvon and lot of Welsh people were very annoyed/ against it ,the Welsh saw it as imposing an English Prince on Wales ,they have a new one now I've heard dark mutterings not again .
Some Welsh extremists planted bombs (on the railway route to Caernarfon) to attack the Royal train, but were unsuccessful in preventing the investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales.
@@nicholasjones7312 I know I was staying with friends in Caernarfon at the time of the investiture ,my invitation seems to have gone astray.
12.40 Sean Lock may say (?) "Well that is a challenging..." - Those who know... Know!? 😎😃
You will not understand the Beatles impact unless you lived in teh era. They werenot only hugely talented wring their own music but they revolutionised popular music worldwide, especially using special effects and difffernet techniques od making sounds. At the time they were literally revolutionary.
Us Welsh say the English built the castles to stop the Scousers invading north Wales 😊🏴
Over 600 and England only built about 30 of them.
Because most housing was built by the local council and rented rather than brought. Government owned and all the same. Many have long ago been bought from the council and so are privately owned
castles in britian were built between 1100-1300
Fear is a big respons but we only had the sheep dogs for safety if we walk them on the road. A lot of sheep are smarter then people give them credit for.
You may be interested in watching industrial revelations with Mark Williams, shows you how most of the stuff worked throughout the industrial revolution.
Re the Beatles You have to realise the context of the time - in the 1950s America was the world leader in everything - Europe was still war torn and poor and the USA was the land of plenty accompanied with its happy optimistic pop music.
But by the early 1960s Europe had got its act together, it’s economies were growing fast and culturally they were exciting places - particularly Britain.
But by then america felt old fashioned - in 1964 USA felt like it was still stuck in a 1950s time warp - matters made even worse by the Cuban misile crisis that nearly started world war 3 in 62 and then the assassination of president Kennedy in 63 - America was suddenly scared of the future not excited.
Then I’m one fell swoop the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and changed everything literally over night - the 50s style outdated American doo wop bands were out and Indy bands that wrote their own music and wore their own clothes and grew their hair longer were IN and suddenly America was excited about the future again.
So the effect the Beatles had on the world at that time cannot be overestimated 👌
Manchester and Liverpool are close, but Liverpool is a port and Manchester is inland. My Lancaster ancestors were drawn out to Manchester because of industrialization (textile mills probably) and from there they became some of my most recent state-side immigrants to the US in the mid-Victorian period.
Yes my friend Manchester is inland, but after the Manchester ship canal was cut it was the biggest inland port in the world for a short while anyway.👍
Most cotton Mills in Manchester & the towns around have gone, but a few big red brick ones still remain.
At one time Oldham was just a few Mills short of having one for every day of the year ! Imagine the manpower to do that in just one of the cotton towns.🙂