Mail Welsh landmarks

"Paul Saunders" <pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cm3qf2$rnh$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Being "local" it's not so easy for me to tell, but what do visitors to
> Wales consider to be the main "landmarks". I mean natural landmarks,
> rather than man-made ones.
>
> I'd assume Snowdon, Cadair Idris, Tryfan and Pen y Fan. Perhaps also
> Threecliffs, Worms Head, maybe Cenarth Falls, Great Orme? Or maybe not?
>
> What do visitors to Wales think of when they think of Wales? What
> natural features stand out for you?
>

having been to wales only twice i'd have to say - sheep and scousers ;-)

pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk said...
> Being "local" it's not so easy for me to tell, but what do visitors to
> Wales consider to be the main "landmarks". I mean natural landmarks,
> rather than man-made ones.

Define 'man-made', though.

> I'd assume Snowdon, Cadair Idris, Tryfan and Pen y Fan. Perhaps also
> Threecliffs, Worms Head, maybe Cenarth Falls, Great Orme? Or maybe not?
>
> What do visitors to Wales think of when they think of Wales?

Coal mines, Welsh ladies' national costume, male voice choirs, Mt
Snowdon, train up ditto, Great Orme and train, Arms Park,
Millennium Stadium, slate, dragons, woollen products, sheep, more
sheep...

--
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
probably the day that they start making vacuum cleaners."
--Doc in privacy

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:54:22 -0000, Paul Saunders wrote:

>Being "local" it's not so easy for me to tell, but what do visitors to
>Wales consider to be the main "landmarks". I mean natural landmarks,
>rather than man-made ones.
>
>I'd assume Snowdon, Cadair Idris, Tryfan and Pen y Fan. Perhaps also
>Threecliffs, Worms Head, maybe Cenarth Falls, Great Orme? Or maybe not?
>
>What do visitors to Wales think of when they think of Wales? What
>natural features stand out for you?

Leeks :-)

Other than that almost all the landmarks I'd immediately associate
with Wales are man made, and built by Englishmen. Though to be totally
accurate mostly by Frenchmen.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

The Seven Bridge...and back to civilisation.....only teasing.

GSV@quik.clara.co.uk said...
> b) the ludicrously
> upgraded (and empty) roads. I don't mean the trunk routes, I mean all
> the little B roads, that are better than the English bits of the A5 or
> A49. I assume EU grants have been at work? 8>.
>
If they have, they've been working in the wrong places on the
wrong things - so probably.
--
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
probably the day that they start making vacuum cleaners."
--Doc in privacy

fen4b0y.uk said...
> The Seven Bridge...and back to civilisation.....only teasing.
>
The imaginatively named Second Severn Crossing (did someone get
paid for that one?) is a beautiful piece of engineering,
especially when seen in a certain light.
--
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
probably the day that they start making vacuum cleaners."
--Doc in privacy

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:38:05 +0000, Simon Caldwell wrote:

>Rain

*horizontal* rain.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:42:01 +0000, Phil Cook
<u-r-walk@p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

| On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:38:05 +0000, Simon Caldwell wrote:
|
| >Rain
|
| *horizontal* rain.

Rain going upwards ;-)

--
Dave F

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:59:49 +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote:

>On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:42:01 +0000, Phil Cook
><u-r-walk@p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>| On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:38:05 +0000, Simon Caldwell wrote:
>|
>| >Rain
>|
>| *horizontal* rain.
>
>Rain going upwards ;-)

I thought that was Ireland (The Clifs of Moher, as in Lean's Ryan's
Daughter) or Kinder Downfall :-\
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

"Fran" <fran@> wrote in message
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> pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk said...
> > Being "local" it's not so easy for me to tell, but what do visitors to
> > Wales consider to be the main "landmarks". I mean natural landmarks,
> > rather than man-made ones.
>
> Define 'man-made', though.
>
> > I'd assume Snowdon, Cadair Idris, Tryfan and Pen y Fan. Perhaps also
> > Threecliffs, Worms Head, maybe Cenarth Falls, Great Orme? Or maybe not?
> >
> > What do visitors to Wales think of when they think of Wales?
>
> Coal mines, Welsh ladies' national costume, male voice choirs, Mt
> Snowdon, train up ditto, Great Orme and train, Arms Park,
> Millennium Stadium, slate, dragons, woollen products, sheep, more
> sheep...

and Ivor the Engine