@@tameriajones593 Probably because the tourist boards in both England & Scotland really push their identity and country. Also, the Scottish and English governments are working with a much larger budget, resulting in a more international recognition of their countries. Just ask any foreign tourist, which major cities they visited on their travels. London and Edinburgh come top of the list, Cardiff comes a distant destination. Both England & Scotland are recognised around the world as having their own unique identity, but even though Wales is a separate nation of the United Kingdom, the majority of foreign visitors mistakenly assume Wales is part of England. This is why Wales is a not as popular as England or Scotland
If you listen to the way the Elvish people speak in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, you will hear the influence of Welsh. J.R.R. Tolkien described the Welsh Language as the loveliest of all the Languages.
When an English couple of friends got married in Wales, a group from my town in Mexico drove 4 hours to Los Angeles, flew for 16 hours to London, then a couple of hours by train to Newport, then about an hour by car, to be there in the small town for the occasion. It was quite the long odyssey. Welsh hospitality blew us away, their open warmth was immediate and such an unforgettable experience.
I am a native Hawaiian speaker whose language was endangered, but like the Welsh, we fought hard to bring it back. My family and I first visited Wales in 2006, and we fell in love with everything there. Fast forward to 2021, and our family has learned that my father's grandmother was actually Welsh and descended from Elystan Glodrydd! Even though I was not born there and only been there a few times, I am super excited and proud to know that Welsh blood runs through these veins. I have since started my great journey to acquiring the native language from the "Land of my Fathers." Yma o Hyd!
@@KG-fw5wk Man how crazy is that😅, hopefully one day I'll visit Wales. I remember learning a little hawaiian and welsh and I found them to be similar because of how few people speak them. It would be sad to see such beautiful languages go extinct so I'm learning them to keep it alive ❤
Duolingo has Welsh now! If you enjoy the language, go and learn it for free :) I'm constantly blown away by the gorgeous rhythm and the charming vocabulary. Example: ironing is smwddio (pronounced smoothio), carrots are moron, blue is glas, school is ysgol. Just the best language ever IMHO. Dw i'n mwynhau dysgu Cymraeg!
@@Fibsh6963 My Wifes family are from Swansea. They say if you look across the Severn estuary and you can see the Somerset coast, it's going to rain. If you can't, it already is.
My childhood dream, inspired by English children books, is visiting the beautiful and peaceful places in England, Wales, and Scotland. Now I am almost 50 and my dream is still a dream. I wish I could visit these places before I die.
Being Welsh myself and growing up in this beautiful country I throughly recommend that anyone who ever visits the UK should come to wales for a few days, from the Brecon Beacons and Cardiff in the south to Snowdonia I’m the north and Pembrokeshire in the west, wales really has something for everyone
I hope the Welsh have something that I am looking for and when I tried to find something in the United States I could not find anything. Wales is the best.
Hi! I truly wanna know about Welse. I was searching on internet. Wanna know that or Rishi Sunak also your PM? Or Walse is a seperate country ? How you people see London? As a city of another country ??? I know about the England, great Britain n UK thing but still its lil confusing... also, I love your language. If I'll come to UK, I'm sure gonna visit Wales. But For now, much love from India. 🇮🇳
I appreciate all your efforts rick in your showcase of europe. Now i can travel virtually in europe thru your videos. Thank you i get a glimpse of europe.
My great grandmother left Wales from Liverpool in 1863 to immigrate to the United States. Thanks for this video. I still have her ticket. She was two years old. Mary Lewis age two. :)
This video has flicked a memory switch. I went on a family holiday to North Wales in the summer of 1967. I was seven. We stayed in a cottage up a secluded lane in a village called Cwm-y-Glo, situated at the western end of The Llanberis Pass. I remember it well and have many pleasant memories of those two weeks. My enduring memory was the amount of water; not just in the abundant copious rainfall, but the numerous reservoirs, yet the water was cut off for much of the day. Why? Because there were big black pipes heading towards Manchester and Liverpool. A child's mind is more logical than an adult's and I remember saying to my parents, 'that's not fair.' It still resonates and I can truly understand why the English are not popular in this part of the world. Just a thought.
Thats a problem in parts of the u.s. as well. Here in the southeast Atlanta siphons off huge amounts of water from various rivers and reservoirs. In drought summers lots of small communities have to make drastic conservation efforts to keep the ever expanding atlanta metro monsters taps flowing. It's also severely affected the oyster and other aquaculture industries in the Florida panhandle estuaries bc they depend on a proper mix of fresh water from the rivers mixing with salt water to sustain life. Atlanta uses so much river water from the Chattahoochee and other rivers that it's all but wiped out oyster farming and fishing in these estuaries.
Oh, you should go! My daughter and I visited Wales a few years ago and it was marvelous. She kept saying, "I can't get my head around how old everything is!" We visited a school that was founded by Henry VIII. It had been a monastery and when he closed them down, he had this particular one changed to a school for the area. We want to go back, we didn't see nearly enough!
I watch your videos before going to bed as a talisman against nightmares. Have always like your videos even before I see them. I just know that I am going to be in for a little treat. Keep them coming please.
As an Englishman living in the midlands, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I spend a few days there every year. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
@peace leader I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but just to be safe... no. Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England all form the UK, none of them are provinces (well, except perhaps NI... that's complicated, and I'm not going in to it). There is no such thing as 'England' in terms of political power (i.e. there's no English parliament, only a British parliament containing representatives from the whole UK), so by definition the other three can't be provinces, since a province is a place managed or owned to some degree by an external political power. There is no English political body which is capable of claiming or exerting ownership. However, it is true that England has a much higher population than the other three constituent countries of the UK, so it has more representatives in parliament. This is what people mean when they say things like "England controls the UK" - its not a case of England exerting unfair or undue political power over the other parts of the UK (since, again, there is no political English body capable of exerting that power), its simply that its higher population elects so many MPs that England, taken as a whole, has the most influence over British law. If Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had a higher population, there'd be more MPs in parliament from those places. In any case, that's why many non-English people feel particularly oppressed or ignored by Westminster (perhaps they even feel like an English province), because their separate national interest doesn't have equal representation in parliament. Obviously, whether you accept that depends on your point of view. Personally, I don''t feel that being English gives me any particular advantage, since I'm more concerned with how many MPs agree with my views, not where they're from. And at the moment, my views are particularly underrepresented in parliament. But that's just my perspective, I'm not saying that separatists and nationalists don't also have a valid point of view.
@peace leader Yeah I think it should. I'm very much in favour of federalism. We should replace FPPT with PR, keep the commons as based on constituency population, but also have a second chamber where each home nation has equal representation.
@@monkeymox2544Westminster is very much English Parliament. It is entirely pointless for us to even be represented in it. Independence is the only way forward for us, because England and its Parliament does not care about us and should have zero say in our affairs.
'Taped in August of 2006' Wow. Timeless treasures. Thank you so much for bringing England to my local coffee house. Being of Swedish-Finish-Scottish descent I'm a proud cheap bastard. This trip cost me a cup of coffee!
@@sianiswack633Um, did you catch the fact I'm a tightwad? Only I was just diagnosed with state 3 esophageal cancer so if I survive the treatment, I may be treating myself to some of the places Rick Steves has chronicled.
I live in Bangladesh, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I want to spend a few days there. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
Oliver Lewin 2 years ago As an Englishman living in the midlands, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I spend a few days there every year. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
Such beautiful landscapes in Wales and Britain! I come from the Arizona desert, its amazing to notice the contrast from what I'm used to. Keep up the Welsh language. all the best from the usa.
I left Wales 40 years ago., but here in the Denbigh choir I see Dai Bryn singing his heart out! Dai was a leading charge Nurse or Mental Health worker. A larger than life guy. Great to see him still doing it large!
I'm armenian living in Malta I am always interested in this country when I read the history of Wales and about the Celts. i just love this country so Celtic 🏴💚 big love from Armenia 🇦🇲 I hope I can go to Wales this year 🙏🏻
11:10Composing poetry to your workmates on a Monday morning. How awesome is that. Love this unique part of Welsh culture. That singing and poetry are manly things is something we could all learn about as to what it means to be a man. Hwyl fawr dych chi.👍🏴
I live in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. Both sides of my family settled here in the 1750's from Wales. They even named there town Pembroke. One side was William Williams and the other Jeremiah Solesbury but later became Shrewsbury for reasons no one knows. I'm very proud of my Cymru ancestry. I'll go there and maybe visit some distant family one day!!!
That's interesting, as I went to college in West Virginia at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and I was told the actual Appalachian Mountains were just east of the border of West Virginia and the actual mountain chain in eastern West Virginia are actually the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Texas Hi-Railer The Blue Ridge Mountains are just a region of the Appalachian Mountain Chain. They had it opposite though. Most of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in "western" Virginia with only a very small amount in West Virginia.
You have to keep in mind West Virginia was part of Virginia untill the American Civil War when it split off. The blue ridge mountain (which is just a section of the Appalachian) is the western side of Virginia, farther west its elevated into the alleghany applachain plateau (mountain country) of west virginia. It is in these two mountain and valley lands where the Scots, Irish, and Welsh settled.
Dan L. My family settled in what is the "New River Valley" where I currently reside as well. I don't know this for sure but I suspect they were coal miners in wales and thus became coal miners in the new country.
I moved to Argentina 4 years ago and an Expat American with Welsh and German Blood. There are 5 Welsh Communities is Southern Argentina and they have Welsh Language Schools and have maintained many customs they brought over here 150 years ago. Cheers to my Welsh Cousins!
Wales is such a beautiful country. I live in the U.S., where everything seems to be busy, rushed, and complicated (Common Core). Wales seems like a very calm country, where animals are everywhere and hills are beautiful. Not dull brown with the sound of cars.
+Coolhand Luke I've lived in Wales all my life. It quite calm, if you go to a English city it's quite frightening, especially if you live in a small town like me you don't get to see a building any taller than 3 storey.
+David Evans Too true, spent most my life in Caernarfon and now i'm studying at the university of Essex. Took me a long time to adjust to the big city.
My mom was from North Wales,llanfair and my mom could only speak Welsh at first when she came to Brum, I may need to go back visit apart of roots, feeling Proud.❤️
In 2013 I travelled from Australia to Ireland for a wedding in Cork. It lasted for 3 days. I then went to Wales to recover. It was a gentle place!! Stavros O'Callacher
People need to remember that the Welsh are the true natives of Britain. We once lived all over Britain apart from the far North ( where the mysterious Picts lived ). We were only pushed West into what is now Wales, because of the invading Germanic tribes ( ancestors of the English ). Wales is a beautiful, romantic place full of great charm and history. It's way too underated
I did DNA, and have no part German. Welsh and Norwegian. So whomever were my ancestors, we were some of the ones who were pushed out. I can understand German, but no desire to learn.
4:44 I love this guy, this guy is pro, knows this place like the back of his hand, I bet he's been doing tours for years. I grew up in Llandudno, I went to Tudno and Craig Y Don, I miss that place so much, such amazing memories, such great friends, such a beautiful town, with amazing people. And the preservation of wales and welsh culture is thee best of any UK country. I adore you Wales. You mean so much to me and have a special place in my heart I will go back someday. ❤
I live in Wales, despite this, I thought this was educational and interesting, Just goes to show you how little (in detail), you know really about the place that you live in. Enjoyed watching, thanks for posting.
I loved all of this, like I love all this shows, but the best part for me was watching RS giving Neville his full and complete attention. He let Neville take center stage on his program and I haven't seen many talk show hosts/movie/tv celebs doing anything nearly so respectful. What a truly nice guy.
As someone who was educated in Wales and grew up a big admirer of both The Beatles and Liverpool Football Club, I can say that I'm in love with this episode!
I’m from India and I’m from a particular region where we are so connected with Wales. Our alphabets were given to us by a Welsh Missionary, the late Reverend Thomas Jones. We have schools, colleges, hospitals, orphanages, etc named after many Welsh Missionaries. Most of all, we have an Anthem written by John Roberts in our language but with the same tune as the Welsh National Anthem. We owed a lot to the people from this lovely land, Wales.
My great grandfather in the 1880's walked out of a slate mine in North Wales and moved to the United States with his wife and three children stayed in Northeast Ohio where he walked right back into a coil mine had four more children one of whom was my grandfather born 1889 and looking at those men singing was like looking at my own father and his three brothers , they had the look of being Welch all over them
Rick is a wonderful leader in the world of travel but more than that he is a very giving person that is helping his employees out of his own pocket. There are probably not many entrepreneurs doing that today. Bless him. I really miss seeing some new videos and tours by him and his collaborators.
Sir You are indeed great leader to show . I have seen all that you have shown in ENGLAND . It is an amazing land and the people are friendly and nice mannered . I love to visit again !
What a beautiful country ! I love stradford up on Avon and Greenmere in the Lake district and Scotland for William Shakespeare' William Wordsworth and T S Elliot . So beautiful and implanting creation of divinity .
Back in April 2004 I was part of a tour group that visited Wales. One of the towns we went to is called Llangollen. The hotel we stayed in is called The Hand, so named because someone won a race by cutting off their hand and throwing it across the finish line. Two of the famous people who stayed at this hotel were Robert Browning and Charles Darwin.
@IM KHAN they looted us too you crank no your history rich elites looted you the same rich elites that where building torture devices to rip out our innards in front of our eyes way before they looted you incase you didn't notice they just upped and left us too but unlucky you we rebuilt ourselves we didn't sit about crying about it being the victims
I followed Rick's itieneray as best as I could in November. It was so memorable, rain, sun, wind, rainbows, so much to see and enjoy! Looking forward to returning.
I live in Llanfairfechan, a beautiful scenic village, between the sea and the mountains. I visit Llandudno every week, it is only a little further along the coast. Visitors from abroad always rush to England,London to visit. They don’ t seem to realise the beauty and history in Wales.
Lovely to see a video like this about my home region, I live and have grown up my whole life very close to Castell Caernarfon. Very proud of my country and I just wished people would care more for our beautiful nation.
Thank you Rick, for showing me the underappreciated corners of the world. As a poor American I can only dream of visiting these places. It does my heart good to see people who know their heritage and be proud of it! I think most Americans secretly long to know their ancestors and where they come from, looking for a connection that was lost in the diasporas.
Best places to visit in Wales: Beddgelert, Llyn Gwynant, Snowdon, Mawddach estuary, Caernarfon, Harlech and Conwy castles, Portmeirion, (Snowdonia generally), Tenby, Bosherston pools, St David's, Elan valley, Rhossili and Worms head, Three Cliffs bay, Castell Coch, Cardiff, Brecon Beacons, Brecon and Monmouth canal, Tintern and Wye valley, Southerndown...so many! And now I fancy a go at recent attractions Zipline and Bounce Below.
Llandudno - my hometown! Great to see North Wales featuring on American TV, always love to see U.S. tourists when I go home to visit. Croeso i Gogledd Cymru!
I took my first trip to England and Scotland this year but my true wish is to go back and go to Wales. I studied Welsh as a teenager, even though I am from the US. It is a beautiful language.
We visited North Wales a few times, their countryside is beautiful and clean,and those castles are very interesting,we all enjoyed holidays in Wales 👍😘!
Wales is certainly Celtic- land of the ancient Brythonic people, linked to the Cornish and Bretons in Brittany. Historically with darker hair and complexions than the Anglo-Saxons/ English from Germany who invaded Welsh-speaking Britain and called the land they took England
My great grandfather, Ted Lloyd, was from Blaenau Festiniog, (and tenor voice who won the national Eisteddfod) and HIS father-in-law was one of those train engineers in the areas around Anglesey. Ted Lloyd’s mother was from the last family farm at Tomen y Mur . . . There are still descendants living in the home on Manod Rd. I hear one of them is a locally famous artist!
King Edward I was a brute, relentless and cruel,My Welsh ancestors fought valiantly to preserve their independence from England. The original rinces of Wales are Llewellyn the Great and Llewellyn the Last.They are not forgotten.🏴
Proud of Welsh people for keeping their language and culture intact.
Diolch
@@GethinElwyn Mae'n hyfryd iawn. Rydw i eisiau symud yno gyda fy nghariad un diwrnod.
(Sorry I’m still learning Welsh)
What's the language?
@@har5814 Seriously ?
@@bgggsht Sorry. Just knew Welsh is a different language.
Wales is underrated, you don't hear about it as much as Scotland, Ireland and England which is sad because Wales is truly magnificent and wonderful!
im english and i go to Snowdonia a few times a year, its definetly one of the most beautiful locations in the united kingdom
Wales is underrated. I don't understand why it's not talked about as much.
@@tameriajones593 Probably because the tourist boards in both England & Scotland really push their identity and country.
Also, the Scottish and English governments are working with a much larger budget, resulting in a more international recognition of their countries.
Just ask any foreign tourist, which major cities they visited on their travels.
London and Edinburgh come top of the list, Cardiff comes a distant destination.
Both England & Scotland are recognised around the world as having their own unique identity, but even though Wales is a separate nation of the United Kingdom, the majority of foreign visitors mistakenly assume Wales is part of England.
This is why Wales is a not as popular as England or Scotland
Welsh tourist board dont push to advertise Wales its a gem thats why
I loved hiking in Snowdonia. The hospitality in Wales is wonderful. I forgot to mention how beautiful are men choirs. It was incredible.
When the Welsh speak their native tongue they sound like they're singing when they talk. Lovely.
If you listen to the way the Elvish people speak in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, you will hear the influence of Welsh. J.R.R. Tolkien described the Welsh Language as the loveliest of all the Languages.
they seen so proud and happy
@@mm.7053 Yes and they proudly fly the welch flag, and not that union jack
poor excuse for a flag that only the elite tend to be happy with...
People also say that to our local language when we speak.
@@garethwynnvernon6329 Was he deaf ???
When an English couple of friends got married in Wales, a group from my town in Mexico drove 4 hours to Los Angeles, flew for 16 hours to London, then a couple of hours by train to Newport, then about an hour by car, to be there in the small town for the occasion. It was quite the long odyssey.
Welsh hospitality blew us away, their open warmth was immediate and such an unforgettable experience.
you could have just facetimed with them
I'm Mexican but I think my ancestors were Welsh
@@trashcantacos Hasta le cantamos Las Mañanitas a un local en el pub.
@@ernestolombardo5811 Como debe de ser :)
Wow, talk about passion
I am a native Hawaiian speaker whose language was endangered, but like the Welsh, we fought hard to bring it back.
My family and I first visited Wales in 2006, and we fell in love with everything there.
Fast forward to 2021, and our family has learned that my father's grandmother was actually Welsh and descended from Elystan Glodrydd!
Even though I was not born there and only been there a few times, I am super excited and proud to know that Welsh blood runs through these veins. I have since started my great journey to acquiring the native language from the "Land of my Fathers."
Yma o Hyd!
That's so cool! I'm also Hawaiian and Welsh🤙🏼🏴
@@Lotle_Lober Wow!!!!! We’re awesome! 😂
@@KG-fw5wk Man how crazy is that😅, hopefully one day I'll visit Wales. I remember learning a little hawaiian and welsh and I found them to be similar because of how few people speak them. It would be sad to see such beautiful languages go extinct so I'm learning them to keep it alive ❤
I’m a Hawaiian too, and I just went to Wales last week! Like Hawaii, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.
@@jonahwillis2781 That's so cool!
Duolingo has Welsh now! If you enjoy the language, go and learn it for free :) I'm constantly blown away by the gorgeous rhythm and the charming vocabulary. Example: ironing is smwddio (pronounced smoothio), carrots are moron, blue is glas, school is ysgol. Just the best language ever IMHO. Dw i'n mwynhau dysgu Cymraeg!
Wales is so beautiful
toledo marcos please I want to go to Wales. But I don't have any body the
It is. It is full of green open lands, valleys, hills. A lot of natural beauty.
@@Fibsh6963 My Wifes family are from Swansea. They say if you look across the Severn estuary and you can see the Somerset coast, it's going to rain. If you can't,
it already is.
@Griffith Williams Exactly
@@Fibsh6963 You're calling a drought nice?
My childhood dream, inspired by English children books, is visiting the beautiful and peaceful places in England, Wales, and Scotland. Now I am almost 50 and my dream is still a dream. I wish I could visit these places before I die.
Do it! Flights are not too expensive and accommodation is very cheap in Wales
@@123Coffs Thank you Richard, but I live half a globe away, different world, but I keep my dream..
@Spiritual Nature somewhere in South East Asia
@Spiritual Nature neither
@Spiritual Nature South East Asia
Being Welsh myself and growing up in this beautiful country I throughly recommend that anyone who ever visits the UK should come to wales for a few days, from the Brecon Beacons and Cardiff in the south to Snowdonia I’m the north and Pembrokeshire in the west, wales really has something for everyone
and there are special and beautiful areas all over Wales!!
I hope the Welsh have something that I am looking for and when I tried to find something in the United States I could not find anything. Wales is the best.
Hi! I truly wanna know about Welse. I was searching on internet. Wanna know that or Rishi Sunak also your PM? Or Walse is a seperate country ? How you people see London? As a city of another country ??? I know about the England, great Britain n UK thing but still its lil confusing... also, I love your language. If I'll come to UK, I'm sure gonna visit Wales.
But For now, much love from India. 🇮🇳
Many spend their honeymoon in the Caribbean, Bora Bora, Seychelles, etc. my husband and I chose the wonderful North Wales🌞
I would like to come Wales with family
As a Briton I appreciate these well-informed and respectful videos.
We're not British we are Cymru. 🏴
I appreciate all your efforts rick in your showcase of europe. Now i can travel virtually in europe thru your videos. Thank you i get a glimpse of europe.
@@MrCymru thats apart of Britain
@@MrCymru wales is apart of the uk
@@MrCymru We are British
My great grandmother left Wales from Liverpool in 1863 to immigrate to the United States. Thanks for this video. I still have her ticket. She was two years old. Mary Lewis age two. :)
awww... great place!😃
I hope you get to visit Wales if not already. That ticket must feel very precious
That's awesome!
That's amazing! Crazy that you still have the ticket!!! Such a PRECIOUS SENTIMENT,SENTIMENTAL TREASURE!
1863? The Wild West was still.....Wild
This video has flicked a memory switch. I went on a family holiday to North Wales in the summer of 1967. I was seven. We stayed in a cottage up a secluded lane in a village called Cwm-y-Glo, situated at the western end of The Llanberis Pass. I remember it well and have many pleasant memories of those two weeks. My enduring memory was the amount of water; not just in the abundant copious rainfall, but the numerous reservoirs, yet the water was cut off for much of the day. Why? Because there were big black pipes heading towards Manchester and Liverpool. A child's mind is more logical than an adult's and I remember saying to my parents, 'that's not fair.' It still resonates and I can truly understand why the English are not popular in this part of the world. Just a thought.
Thats a problem in parts of the u.s. as well. Here in the southeast Atlanta siphons off huge amounts of water from various rivers and reservoirs. In drought summers lots of small communities have to make drastic conservation efforts to keep the ever expanding atlanta metro monsters taps flowing. It's also severely affected the oyster and other aquaculture industries in the Florida panhandle estuaries bc they depend on a proper mix of fresh water from the rivers mixing with salt water to sustain life. Atlanta uses so much river water from the Chattahoochee and other rivers that it's all but wiped out oyster farming and fishing in these estuaries.
Exactly right friend. Wales has only to cut off the water to the English to hear them squeak
I would love to visit Wales. Hope it gets easier to travel around soon. Much respect from Denmark to Wales
Oh, you should go! My daughter and I visited Wales a few years ago and it was marvelous. She kept saying, "I can't get my head around how old everything is!" We visited a school that was founded by Henry VIII. It had been a monastery and when he closed them down, he had this particular one changed to a school for the area. We want to go back, we didn't see nearly enough!
@@vahodgins Ysgol Friars?
I watch your videos before going to bed as a talisman against nightmares. Have always like your videos even before I see them. I just know that I am going to be in for a little treat. Keep them coming please.
As an Englishman living in the midlands, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I spend a few days there every year. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
Oliver Lewin I'm with you on that one. As a child in the 60s and 70s I had many a happy time in North Wales. Think that's why I still love it.
@peace leader I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but just to be safe... no. Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England all form the UK, none of them are provinces (well, except perhaps NI... that's complicated, and I'm not going in to it). There is no such thing as 'England' in terms of political power (i.e. there's no English parliament, only a British parliament containing representatives from the whole UK), so by definition the other three can't be provinces, since a province is a place managed or owned to some degree by an external political power. There is no English political body which is capable of claiming or exerting ownership. However, it is true that England has a much higher population than the other three constituent countries of the UK, so it has more representatives in parliament. This is what people mean when they say things like "England controls the UK" - its not a case of England exerting unfair or undue political power over the other parts of the UK (since, again, there is no political English body capable of exerting that power), its simply that its higher population elects so many MPs that England, taken as a whole, has the most influence over British law. If Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had a higher population, there'd be more MPs in parliament from those places.
In any case, that's why many non-English people feel particularly oppressed or ignored by Westminster (perhaps they even feel like an English province), because their separate national interest doesn't have equal representation in parliament. Obviously, whether you accept that depends on your point of view. Personally, I don''t feel that being English gives me any particular advantage, since I'm more concerned with how many MPs agree with my views, not where they're from. And at the moment, my views are particularly underrepresented in parliament. But that's just my perspective, I'm not saying that separatists and nationalists don't also have a valid point of view.
@peace leader Yeah I think it should. I'm very much in favour of federalism. We should replace FPPT with PR, keep the commons as based on constituency population, but also have a second chamber where each home nation has equal representation.
@peace leader try again
@@monkeymox2544Westminster is very much English Parliament. It is entirely pointless for us to even be represented in it. Independence is the only way forward for us, because England and its Parliament does not care about us and should have zero say in our affairs.
'Taped in August of 2006' Wow. Timeless treasures. Thank you so much for bringing England to my local coffee house. Being of Swedish-Finish-Scottish descent I'm a proud cheap bastard. This trip cost me a cup of coffee!
Buy a ticket 🎟 and go visit then
@@sianiswack633Um, did you catch the fact I'm a tightwad? Only I was just diagnosed with state 3 esophageal cancer so if I survive the treatment, I may be treating myself to some of the places Rick Steves has chronicled.
I live in Bangladesh, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I want to spend a few days there. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
Oliver Lewin
2 years ago
As an Englishman living in the midlands, Wales has always held a special place in my heart. I spend a few days there every year. Beautiful country. Absolutely adore North Wales.
werlafe The point being ??
ভাই,চলে আসেন,আমি north wales থাকি
The castle's look amazing
@@thomasodoyo6207 ভাইয়া আমি wales আসতেছি, আমাকে থাকতে দিবেন কয়দিন?
ওখানে পরীক্ষা দিতে যাব কিছুদিন পর, MRCPsych ….
God bless Rick Steves. He shines a light on all areas, not just Paris and London. I've been a fan of his since I was in college - I'm 50 now.
It’s nice to see an American so passionate and knowledgable about Britain. Great documentary
Such beautiful landscapes in Wales and Britain! I come from the Arizona desert, its amazing to notice the contrast from what I'm used to. Keep up the Welsh language. all the best from the usa.
Helo o sir fôn gogledd cymru. Hello from anglesey north wales
I imagine Arizona is quite beautiful as well, if a little hotter and drier lol.
Thankyou joshua ,diolch yn fawr
I visited North Wales for one day only, I saw most of these sightseeings, and it was among the best days in my entire life.
I'm a Yorkshire man who moved here when I was 11. I prefer living here these last 46 years. There is still so much left to see and do.
Dear Rick, we followed your recommendation and made Conwy the homebase for our week in Wales next summer. Six months to go and already thrilled.
I left Wales 40 years ago., but here in the Denbigh choir I see Dai Bryn singing his heart out! Dai was a leading charge Nurse or Mental Health worker. A larger than life guy. Great to see him still doing it large!
I'm armenian living in Malta I am always interested in this country when I read the history of Wales and about the Celts.
i just love this country so Celtic 🏴💚 big love from Armenia 🇦🇲
I hope I can go to Wales this year 🙏🏻
11:10Composing poetry to your workmates on a Monday morning. How awesome is that. Love this unique part of Welsh culture. That singing and poetry are manly things is something we could all learn about as to what it means to be a man. Hwyl fawr dych chi.👍🏴
I love Welsh!!! I hope the language will keep being taught to all youngsters.
I love Welsh too and would try to learn the language.
Beautiful adventure 💚💛❤️😇🙏🏾💯 🎶🎶🎶my mood of happy people 😀😊
just wow! the beauty of this country took my breath away
Lamiye Maahmudova Thank you for your kind appreciation of my country.
Yes thanks for the amazing comment on where I live, wouldn’t change it for the world. It is a lovely place living in Wales.
A magical place ✨️
I live in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. Both sides of my family settled here in the 1750's from Wales. They even named there town Pembroke. One side was William Williams and the other Jeremiah Solesbury but later became Shrewsbury for reasons no one knows. I'm very proud of my Cymru ancestry. I'll go there and maybe visit some distant family one day!!!
That's interesting, as I went to college in West Virginia at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon and I was told the actual Appalachian Mountains were just east of the border of West Virginia and the actual mountain chain in eastern West Virginia are actually the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Texas Hi-Railer The Blue Ridge Mountains are just a region of the Appalachian Mountain Chain. They had it opposite though. Most of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in "western" Virginia with only a very small amount in West Virginia.
Travis Williams there is a town in England about ten miles from Wales called Shrewsbury.
You have to keep in mind West Virginia was part of Virginia untill the American Civil War when it split off. The blue ridge mountain (which is just a section of the Appalachian) is the western side of Virginia, farther west its elevated into the alleghany applachain plateau (mountain country) of west virginia. It is in these two mountain and valley lands where the Scots, Irish, and Welsh settled.
Dan L. My family settled in what is the "New River Valley" where I currently reside as well. I don't know this for sure but I suspect they were coal miners in wales and thus became coal miners in the new country.
The tour guide is very engaging. He brings it to life.
I moved to Argentina 4 years ago and an Expat American with Welsh and German Blood.
There are 5 Welsh Communities is Southern Argentina and they have Welsh Language Schools and have maintained many customs they brought over here 150 years ago.
Cheers to my Welsh Cousins!
Yes, Welsh settlers arrived in Patagonia in the 19th century and descendants speak Welsh, with people from Wales and Patagonia visiting each other.
Wales!
The chapel in Caernarfon has a plaque on it's wall to memorialise the first Welsh settlers in Patagonia who were members of the chapel.
Absolutely, Picturesque!!! Such a beautiful area in the UK.
The tour guide has so much energy when speaking, so adorable..
THANKS RICK!!!! ❤
No doubt this way the best video ever. Though I'm Brazilian Wales is the country of my heart. Congratulations for picturing this wonderful country!
Thank you- that is unusual for a Brazilian to have Wales in his heart
Bom dia, Victor, good to see you again!
@@Kaibigan39 olá. Desculpe, mas não estou lembrando de vc. Vc é do Brasil?
Cymru am Byth. Wales forever. The land of my fathers.
Hey, how are you and the weather there?
Two days a go just came back from holiday in North Wales. I'm in love with Llandudno, Conwy and Snowdonia. Beautiful places!
Plethora of travel vlogs but none came close to Rick Steve. Absolute Legend!
Wales is such a beautiful country. I live in the U.S., where everything seems to be busy, rushed, and complicated (Common Core). Wales seems like a very calm country, where animals are everywhere and hills are beautiful. Not dull brown with the sound of cars.
The Luoji Person I lived in wales for 2 years
I lived there until I was 2. I don't remember much, jus there where a lot of sheep and mountains
+Coolhand Luke I've lived in Wales all my life. It quite calm, if you go to a English city it's quite frightening, especially if you live in a small town like me you don't get to see a building any taller than 3 storey.
+David Evans Too true, spent most my life in Caernarfon and now i'm studying at the university of Essex. Took me a long time to adjust to the big city.
GwionB9 Exactly, its so fast pace. The city is not for me but my brother loves it.
Very good actors are from Wales. I have always been fascinated, with the History.
My mom was from North Wales,llanfair and my mom could only speak Welsh at first when she came to Brum, I may need to go back visit apart of roots, feeling
Proud.❤️
The castles of Wales are so cool
The UK is amazing - so beautiful and history on every corner.
I am so glad that the Welsh language is alive and vibrant.
A lovely tour ... Wales is very Beautiful ❣Loved seeing Penny Lane and other Beatles landmarks ...
Hey, how are you and the weather there?
Visit India. Beautiful in cultural and traditional and various things - Joshua
I loved Wales. Would like to go back again.
The Welsh Men's Choir has drawn me back to this episode again and again. Always brings a tear or two. Wales ... Lovely people, stunning scenery.
In 2013 I travelled from Australia to Ireland for a wedding in Cork. It lasted for 3 days. I then went to Wales to recover. It was a gentle place!!
Stavros O'Callacher
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People need to remember that the Welsh are the true natives of Britain. We once lived all over Britain apart from the far North ( where the mysterious Picts lived ). We were only pushed West into what is now Wales, because of the invading Germanic tribes ( ancestors of the English ). Wales is a beautiful, romantic place full of great charm and history. It's way too underated
You are so right. I’ve read recently that the Welsh are the true Britons. This has been done by DNA testing.
I did DNA, and have no part German. Welsh and Norwegian. So whomever were my ancestors, we were some of the ones who were pushed out. I can understand German, but no desire to learn.
4:44 I love this guy, this guy is pro, knows this place like the back of his hand, I bet he's been doing tours for years. I grew up in Llandudno, I went to Tudno and Craig Y Don, I miss that place so much, such amazing memories, such great friends, such a beautiful town, with amazing people. And the preservation of wales and welsh culture is thee best of any UK country. I adore you Wales. You mean so much to me and have a special place in my heart I will go back someday. ❤
I live in Wales, despite this, I thought this was educational and interesting, Just goes to show you how little (in detail), you know really about the place that you live in. Enjoyed watching, thanks for posting.
Will Ward too busy with your sheep
Hello... can you send pictures of secenry of your country.
Very nice vlogg Wales is very beautiful
I loved all of this, like I love all this shows, but the best part for me was watching RS giving Neville his full and complete attention. He let Neville take center stage on his program and I haven't seen many talk show hosts/movie/tv celebs doing anything nearly so respectful. What a truly nice guy.
We spend 2 holydays in Wales and we Love the landscape, the culture and the People. 🏴 Greetings from Germany.
As someone who was educated in Wales and grew up a big admirer of both The Beatles and Liverpool Football Club, I can say that I'm in love with this episode!
Liverpool is in England
@@darrenlamb5640 only just
I’m from India and I’m from a particular region where we are so connected with Wales. Our alphabets were given to us by a Welsh Missionary, the late Reverend Thomas Jones. We have schools, colleges, hospitals, orphanages, etc named after many Welsh Missionaries. Most of all, we have an Anthem written by John Roberts in our language but with the same tune as the Welsh National Anthem. We owed a lot to the people from this lovely land, Wales.
Glad To Hear That! I Am From India Too, Could You Please Tell Which Region Are You Talking About?
The introduction of Presbyterian Church to us the Khasi people of Meghalaya comes from Wales😊
@@suyamchaturvedi Meghalaya I guess😊
Helo o Gymru
My great grandfather in the 1880's walked out of a slate mine in North Wales and moved to the United States with his wife and three children stayed in Northeast Ohio where he walked right back into a coil mine had four more children one of whom was my grandfather born 1889 and looking at those men singing was like looking at my own father and his three brothers , they had the look of being Welch all over them
Welsh, not Welch ! Actually I call myself a Cymro & we are Cymry
Funny I’m from Cleveland and my last name is welsh. What’s your last name if you don’t mind?
I live in Wales and I love it here ❤
Rick is a wonderful leader in the world of travel but more than that he is a very giving person that is helping his employees out of his own pocket. There are probably not many entrepreneurs doing that today. Bless him. I really miss seeing some new videos and tours by him and his collaborators.
Beautiful and I love the men's choir
Sir
You are indeed great leader
to show . I have seen all that you have shown in ENGLAND .
It is an amazing land and the people are friendly and nice mannered . I love to visit again !
What a beautiful country !
I love stradford up on Avon and Greenmere in the Lake district and
Scotland for
William Shakespeare' William Wordsworth and T S Elliot .
So beautiful and implanting creation of divinity .
Back in April 2004 I was part of a tour group that visited Wales. One of the towns we went to is called Llangollen. The hotel we stayed in is called The Hand, so named because someone won a race by cutting off their hand and throwing it across the finish line. Two of the famous people who stayed at this hotel were Robert Browning and Charles Darwin.
I'm from Snowdonia and I have a brother in Beddgelert, it's a magical place.
My Great great grandfather Owen Jones used to run a public house in Beddgelert.😊😊
The miners singing reminded me of the movie "How Green Was My Valley".
I'm an American with strong Welsh ancestral roots, and I could not be more proud.
Me too
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What a peaceful place,,,, people living in a peace in every corner without fear,,,
My ancestors came from Wales. I have got to visit one day
Hi can we be friends please
Hey, how are you and the weather there?
@@frankrobert4897 hi I'm well. Raining
@@lindajones8895 Wow, it’s also rainy and cold here
@@lindajones8895 I’m from Houston Texas but currently working here in Dublin, and you?
Britain as a whole is the most beautiful place on earth. Nothing comes close.
Agreed!
I am Welsh! I live near Llandudno
Hello lady... greetings from Pakistan
I'm from Bangor.😊
@IM KHAN they looted us too you crank no your history rich elites looted you the same rich elites that where building torture devices to rip out our innards in front of our eyes way before they looted you incase you didn't notice they just upped and left us too but unlucky you we rebuilt ourselves we didn't sit about crying about it being the victims
@Davos exactly.
me too
We Love Wales from Iran 🇮🇷❤️🏴
thank you, I truly loved this! I have always wanted to visit Wales, and now I am even more inspired!
Hey, how are you and the weather there?
Wales is magnificent, the Celtic people are a gem, and every Welshmen/women i've met have gold hearts
Enjoyed the tour during this Covid 19 lockdown. Thank you very much.
I followed Rick's itieneray as best as I could in November. It was so memorable, rain, sun, wind, rainbows, so much to see and enjoy! Looking forward to returning.
Rick, I went to Betws-y-Coed and Snowdon just yesterday and watching your video made me want to go back again already! What a great video.
Really interesting seeing our home region through foreign eyes. Good job!
I live in Llanfairfechan, a beautiful scenic village, between the sea and the mountains. I visit Llandudno every week, it is only a little further along the coast. Visitors from abroad always rush to England,London to visit. They don’ t seem to realise the beauty and history in Wales.
Proud to say I live here 🏴
Lovely to see a video like this about my home region, I live and have grown up my whole life very close to Castell Caernarfon. Very proud of my country and I just wished people would care more for our beautiful nation.
Not sure if I've ever been newquay
hi English friend ,you all right ?
@@MDBabu-ki4ph English???
Your poetic videos are mesh of travel and scenic nature .Such a joy to watch.
Thank you Rick, for showing me the underappreciated corners of the world. As a poor American I can only dream of visiting these places. It does my heart good to see people who know their heritage and be proud of it! I think most Americans secretly long to know their ancestors and where they come from, looking for a connection that was lost in the diasporas.
I think I'll go to Wales to live and then Greece.
Been to Wales many times over the years.. beautiful and peaceful💕💕💕💕😊
Best places to visit in Wales: Beddgelert, Llyn Gwynant, Snowdon, Mawddach estuary, Caernarfon, Harlech and Conwy castles, Portmeirion, (Snowdonia generally), Tenby, Bosherston pools, St David's, Elan valley, Rhossili and Worms head, Three Cliffs bay, Castell Coch, Cardiff, Brecon Beacons, Brecon and Monmouth canal, Tintern and Wye valley, Southerndown...so many! And now I fancy a go at recent attractions Zipline and Bounce Below.
0 a1s,
You missed out Llangollen and Beaumaris!
PROUD OF YOU WELCHMEN ... KEEP SPEAKING YOUR NATIVE TONGUE !!!
It’s Welshmen, Cymro in Welsh.
I never knew anything about Wales before. I met a friend and he taught me. How a nice place. 🏴❤️
Just the perfect description for Neville - 'with gusto". I am enthused while he narrates the story.
Llandudno - my hometown! Great to see North Wales featuring on American TV, always love to see U.S. tourists when I go home to visit. Croeso i Gogledd Cymru!
I took my first trip to England and Scotland this year but my true wish is to go back and go to Wales. I studied Welsh as a teenager, even though I am from the US. It is a beautiful language.
So we’ll done!Thank you for showing the beauty and all the wonderful people💥
We visited North Wales a few times, their countryside is beautiful and clean,and those castles are very interesting,we all enjoyed holidays in Wales 👍😘!
Blimmey can't get enough of this channel it's grand 🍀 cheers Stephen 🍀✌️
Cornwall is also a Celtic Nation, with its own language, similar to Welsh and Bretton and understood quite well by both nations!
Celtic no , Vales is caucasian people
I'm actually surprised at how much Cornish i can understand. I speak welsh so theyre very similar sure, but its really cool none the less.
Wales is certainly Celtic- land of the ancient Brythonic people, linked to the Cornish and Bretons in Brittany. Historically with darker hair and complexions than the Anglo-Saxons/ English from Germany who invaded Welsh-speaking Britain and called the land they took England
@The505Guys Unfortunately, you guys have become just as anglo as the rest of them. Wiped out by the rich English holiday homes and migrants
@The505Guys That's the exact same for Scotland too, tbh. Cornwall is literally more Celtic than Scotland is.
My great grandfather, Ted Lloyd, was from Blaenau Festiniog, (and tenor voice who won the national Eisteddfod) and HIS father-in-law was one of those train engineers in the areas around Anglesey. Ted Lloyd’s mother was from the last family farm at Tomen y Mur . . . There are still descendants living in the home on Manod Rd. I hear one of them is a locally famous artist!
King Edward I was a brute, relentless and cruel,My Welsh ancestors fought valiantly to preserve their independence from England. The original rinces of Wales are Llewellyn the Great and Llewellyn the Last.They are not forgotten.🏴
Welsh will always be in.
He left behind some cool castles!
Looks like a nice place to visit.
Watching this on 2020,
What a beautiful world.
Wales is outstanding I loved it and the people are nice and friendly
Wales is a beautiful place This super video shows many of the places that I know and love Come and visit Wales and enjoy its beauty.
jsdprods very good views
Rick has given me years of joy with his shows. Thank you. I might never get to some of these places physically, but you take me there in spirit.