er the love wales thread

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:47 pm

jimbo;1087145 wrote: and the bridge over the severn .... coming this way

Which way would that be?

Interested parties would like to know.

Well, I suppose they can sing a bit, but their beer is even worse than that stuff you Englanders drink.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:51 pm

jimbo;1087145 wrote: for spot and chezzer:)

post your fave welsh things here

:)

i like leek soup

and the bridge over the severn .... coming this way :driving::driving:

Not at the moment, thank you - and I was born there

shelbell · Post by **shelbell** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:33 pm

I honestly thought this was about the big mammals that live in the sea. :yh_rotfl

Wales? I don't know anything about it but someone can teach me something...I love to learn about other countries and cultures.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:35 am

I like that road tunnel on the way to Anglesey

Catherine Zeta Jones when she was about 25

Dylan Thomas of course

The fact that in Wales a lot of people actually can speak Welsh

Victoria · Post by **Victoria** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:25 am

Adventure holidays I had there as a teenager,, trekking over the Brecon Beacons and walking behind the waterfall. The wonderful spectacular coast at Ogmore by sea.

Castel Goch in the Taff vally which looks like the Disney castle but has really blood chilling history attached to it.

Welsh male voice choirs nothing like them anywhere.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:34 am

I've always heard that the Welch people are lovely and indeed they are.

Our Chezzie comes from Wales:-4:-4

I loved spending some time in Holyhead years ago. My Uncle Jim from Dublin was a garda there for a few years:-4

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:42 am

Victoria;1087371 wrote: Castel Goch in the Taff vally which looks like the Disney castle but has really blood chilling history attached to it.What happened there?

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:08 am

we took the ferry to Ireland from there.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:12 am

Chookie;1087152 wrote: Which way would that be?

Interested parties would like to know.

Well, I suppose they can sing a bit, but their beer is even worse than that stuff you Englanders drink.

But not as bad as Scottish beer which invariably tastes like warmed up well it aids with the projectile vomiting I suppose.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:33 am

Kathy Ellen;1087389 wrote: I've always heard that the Welch people are lovely and indeed they are.

Our Chezzie comes from Wales:-4:-4

I loved spending some time in Holyhead years ago. My Uncle Jim from Dublin was a garda there for a few years:-4

Your uncle was a Garda in Hollyhead??

We have Irish police in Wales now?

Excellent, we must be taking over! :-6

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:32 am

Mt Favourite is a Beluga Whale :-4

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:21 pm

One of my favorite old movies is "How Green was My Valley". It depicted life in a Welsh mining town. It starred a young Roddy McDowell and Maureen O'Hara. I believe it was made around 1940. Now, I know this was only a film about Wales, but I'd like to know from folks who have seen it and are from Wales, how accurate is it?

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:42 pm

Given that it was set in Victorian England it would be hard for any of us, even me, to know precisely how accurate it was. it carried conviction with his audience when it was first published in 1939 and a lot of its readers at the time would have known the setting first hand. There were other novelists telling similar tales too.

There are two major Welsh museums an hour's drive from here. One's the Big Pit National Coal Museum where people can go underground in the miner's cage and follow the tunnels, see the equipment and coalfaces and hear miners tell of what it was like when it was worked. The other is St Fagans National History Museum where dozens of Welsh homes, cottages, shops, a Working Men's Institute and library from various centuries are preserved. Between the two you get an insight into the past which backs up the novel and film. Both are free.