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llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Yes, if you divert slightly off the main route from Holyhead out of Anglesey you reach it easily. A branch of Edinburgh Woollen Mills is there selling touristy stuff. I remember as an I year old on a school trip bus to London one of the girls could pronounce this word fluently, so I took it upon myself to learn it, and every since I love opportunities to rattle it off.

    You were a 1 year old on a school trip?

    Were you like Dougie Houser and a doctor by 16?


  • #33
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,208 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Was there too getting back from Old Trafford and had to change, oddly...

    It’s pronounced / said as Llanfairpwll by the locals.


  • #34
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    There are beautiful places to visit in north wales and it's on our doorstep

    Portmeirion is on the list

    I can't wait until I can travel again. Wales is on my list.


  • #35
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Was there on a school tour in 1989, had to take about 4 photos with my ****ty film camera to get the whole town name in !!


  • #36
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I can't wait until I can travel again. Wales is on my list.

    Wales is gorgeous , really under-rated place...


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  • #37
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Kerry is worse, where an inch is a mile.


  • #38
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    North Wales is were i'm from, there's some really weird place and place names, some of the locals in certain places down the Cony Valley and Gwynedd are just pure nuts, i'm born and bred in wales, 100% welsh, yet they wouldn't speak to me at all because i can't speak Welsh fluently.

    When i was a bailiff back in Wales i visited a guy who had bought a pub in Criccieth, he was from Manchester, a really sound guy and explained all his troubles.

    Before buying the place was booming, he'd done all the checks with accountants, the place was a little gold mine and had been for years, the minute he bought it it died a death, not one of the locals went in there because he wasn't Welsh.


  • #39
    dd973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    AFAIK even the Welsh regard those North Walian places closest to us as a 'hickville', I rather like the strong Welsh culture they've retained though, being big speakers of the language, I think the further East you go up there it gets influenced by the NW of England, the bits nearest to Chester seem to be basically the Scouse hinterland albeit in Wales.

    Surprised that you don't seem to get that many coming here to live and work given Dublin's proximity and employment opportunities compared to NW Wales.


  • #40
    scudzilla
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    dd973 wrote: »
    AFAIK even the Welsh regard those North Walian places closest to us as a 'hickville', I rather like the strong Welsh culture they've retained though, being big speakers of the language, I think the further East you go up there it gets influenced by the NW of England, the bits nearest to Chester seem to be basically the Scouse hinterland albeit in Wales.

    Surprised that you don't seem to get that many coming here to live and work given Dublin's proximity and employment opportunities compared to NW Wales.

    Thats true, most people from North Wales regard the people from down the Conwy Valley and as far south as Aberystwyth as strange farming folk, brotherly/sisterly love and all that. As for the South Walians, got not time for them :pac::pac:

    Like 2 different countries, you don't get much Welsh spoken if at all in the South Walian cities but you do in the South Wales valleys.

    The scouse/north west accent is pretty strong in North Wales, people have often said i have a scouse twang.

    As for Anglesey....jaysus, i don't actually know where that would belong to.

    Rivalries between welsh town are also crazy, crazy scraps (mostly football related) whenever Swansea/Cardiff, Bangor/Caernarfon Wrexham/Chester meet


  • #41
    fleet_admiral
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    afro man wrote: »
    Stopped in it twice on designated bus stop on way back from old Trafford.. Big gift shop and plenty of parkin for buses.. Not a kinda place you would go out of your way to visit

    Didn't know buses liked ginger cake


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  • #42
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Yet Michael Gove cannot say ..Micheál Martin.


  • #43
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Lan fair pull Gwyn gill goger ikwin drob bullian, (could be pull ian) tissillio go go Goch. Handy enough really, the name was best explained by comedian Rich Hall who said it was founded during the great vowel shortage of the late 19th century.


  • #44
    Lockheed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Lockheed


    I've been many times. Great place to stop for a rest when driving from ireland to uk


  • #45
    Beasty
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    30 January 2019


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
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    scudzilla wrote: »
    actually know where that would belong to.

    Rivalries between welsh town are also crazy, crazy scraps (mostly football related) whenever Swansea/Cardiff, Bangor/Caernarfon Wrexham/Chester meet

    Ah yes, sure even half of Brazil is divided there. We're all on the edge of our seats whenever "el classico" happens! :)


  • #47
    dd973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    scudzilla wrote: »
    As for Anglesey....jaysus, i don't actually know where that would belong to.

    Someone I knew who used to holiday there told me in all seriousness they had an antipathy towards all non-Anglesey Welsh folk, even the fellow Welsh speaking ones. :confused:

    I've heard about the North/South split before, they used to sit apart on the National football team coach, I think it could stem from not having much to do with each other due to the fact that the two regions are divided by mountain ranges and are better connected to differing parts of England than with each other.

    Is there an anti-Cardiff strain of feeling akin to the capitals of England and Ireland being disliked?


  • #48
    s1ippy
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    Eduard Khil wrote: »
    Kerry is worse, where an inch is a mile.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8TEoa6aWI


  • #49
    PTH2009
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    Only time I've been to Wales is going too Oakwood theme park , The youth club summer tour experience. Doesn't feel like another country for some reason

    Theme Park was decent place but my christ Fishguard is a bit of a depressing hole. The station at the port is deplorable and you pray to board the vomit machine that is the ferry

    Would love to do a tour of Wales some day


  • #50
    MidlanderMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭MidlanderMan


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    This is actually a real place name. Has anyone been?

    It's not really though. Nobody in the area uses that name. It's just Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.


  • #51
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've been past Muckanaghederdauhaulia.
    Don't go, it's not worth it.


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