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30+ Mildly Interesting Things That Can Only Be Found in Cymru
We gathered a list of 30+ mildly interesting things that you can see when in Cymru. Have you spotted any of these before?
This supermarket in England has one bilingual sign (English and Welsh), and it’s for family planning.
A log loaded with coins I found in the Welsh countryside.
How to say fruits and vegetables in Welsh.
Welsh supermarket had a shit load of Pringles for sale.
Welsh translations in a supermarket in Wales.
This weird sheep.
A page from an 1849 book that Welsh speakers could use to learn English.
A ceiling decoration in a Welsh Tudor house.
The paragraph lined up perfectly for this Welsh town’s extremely long name fit on a single line.
This Welsh cake that kind of looks like Shrek
Warning sign with very specific examples of what not to carry under overhead wires. With Welsh translation.
Road sign written in Welsh in the middle of nowhere in Patagonia.
The difference in summer skin tone between my Welsh mother and myself, her Welsh/Native American child.
The spine of this 150+ year old Welsh Bible is made of old newspapers.
This Welsh Wet Floor Warning.
This street has a completely different name in English. (“Y Stryd Fawr” is Welsh for “High Street”.)
A 20th century bridge in Aberystwyth, Wales has been built over an 18th century turnpike which was built over a medieval bridge.
If you have a child born in Wales they plant 2 trees on their behalf, one in Wales and another fruit tree in Uganda.
Park bench at the Welsh National Memorial Park. The park is WW1 war memorial in Langemark, near Ypres in Belgium.
A 1960s platform ticket for a town in Wales. Bit of a mouthful.
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Only the Welsh may park in this… ice cream… parlour….?
These sheep made of cables.
“CALL THE FOUNDATION THERE HAS BEEN A BREACH IN CONTAINMENT”
“But, Sir, our phones are missing as well!”
This cloud looks like a dragon.
Post with coins lodged in it, Yr Wyddfa, Cymru.
This Welsh town’s name is so long that the local Gin distillery has to wrap the name right round the bottle…
This microwave is an old stone wall in rural Wales.
This Welsh chocolate is rather specific about what to do before its expiry date.
This old Welsh sign in a church has two different kinds of letter D in the same word. They’re not digraphs.
My packet of Lovehearts had a Welsh option.
This Welsh Flag is made from cans of Coca Cola.
My Welsh dentist’s filing cabinet has a drawer just for people called ‘Williams.’
Bi – lingual Welsh and English signs on a bus.
This church uses its bulletin board to post a different punny message each day.
This origami dragon I folded.
“Credit for those who don’t know: This is Ancient Dragon, designed by Satoshi Kamiya of Japan. He is well-known for his super-complex and frequently fantasy-related designs.”
I went to Portmeirion in Wales and found this sign being swallowed by a tree.
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