Hi Michael, Yes I vaguely remember reading something a while back about a change of name for Snowdon. Never been there yet but did Striding Edge a few years back in The Lakes. That was some walk!
PS Enjoyed your piece on sodium nitrite. Am reading Ultra-Processed People by Dr Chris van Tulleken and for a change of subject, Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham KC.
Hi Michael, Yes I vaguely remember reading something a while back about a change of name for Snowdon. Never been there yet but did Striding Edge a few years back in The Lakes. That was some walk!
PS Enjoyed your piece on sodium nitrite. Am reading Ultra-Processed People by Dr Chris van Tulleken and for a change of subject, Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham KC.
Yes, not so much a change of name for Snowdon but using the Welsh name that existed. The Welsh language is very romantic really despite seemingly unpronounceable words!
The mountains are typically named a fathers and mothers and children. I will probably explain more in a post one day. This can in fact be seen the world over.
I have done Striding Edge a long time ago and it is quite a walk. If you should ever go up Snowdon, the Crib Coch route is the most challenging route more so than Striding Edge.
Llanrhaeadr YM and the Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall there are lovely spots. My family used to go up to North Wales up the Tanat valley on the way to Porthmadog and beyond and I am extremely fond of it. I think I could live there.
My wife and I do go that way occasionally to the in-laws in Anglesey, but it is not the most direct route.
In Cornwall 'they' still try and flog the dead horse that was the Cornish language and hasn't even been spoken for hundreds of years. It pops up all over the place, including street name signs and all Council communications. They even inflict it on kids in schools even though it was never even written down or formalised. You gotta wonder why... A bit like much of Wales, but at least Welsh is a real language and still spoken in the North. I sometimes think some people would be happy if we all still talked Chaucerian. (I think I may have made up a new word?)
PS The next time I undertake a mammoth 'walk' I will remember not to to wear a T shirt and trendy trainers.
Hi Michael, Yes I vaguely remember reading something a while back about a change of name for Snowdon. Never been there yet but did Striding Edge a few years back in The Lakes. That was some walk!
PS Enjoyed your piece on sodium nitrite. Am reading Ultra-Processed People by Dr Chris van Tulleken and for a change of subject, Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham KC.
Yes, not so much a change of name for Snowdon but using the Welsh name that existed. The Welsh language is very romantic really despite seemingly unpronounceable words!
The mountains are typically named a fathers and mothers and children. I will probably explain more in a post one day. This can in fact be seen the world over.
I have done Striding Edge a long time ago and it is quite a walk. If you should ever go up Snowdon, the Crib Coch route is the most challenging route more so than Striding Edge.
My wife is visiting family now around Llanrhaeadr YM. I'll see if she might be able to take a few photos while out on hikes.
Would agree seeing the already existing, historical name for the area would be good.
Llanrhaeadr YM and the Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall there are lovely spots. My family used to go up to North Wales up the Tanat valley on the way to Porthmadog and beyond and I am extremely fond of it. I think I could live there.
My wife and I do go that way occasionally to the in-laws in Anglesey, but it is not the most direct route.
A lovely area indeed. But not, unfortunately, immune to the encroachment of Big Agra, Big Pharma and of course, the overall over-reach of government.
In Cornwall 'they' still try and flog the dead horse that was the Cornish language and hasn't even been spoken for hundreds of years. It pops up all over the place, including street name signs and all Council communications. They even inflict it on kids in schools even though it was never even written down or formalised. You gotta wonder why... A bit like much of Wales, but at least Welsh is a real language and still spoken in the North. I sometimes think some people would be happy if we all still talked Chaucerian. (I think I may have made up a new word?)
PS The next time I undertake a mammoth 'walk' I will remember not to to wear a T shirt and trendy trainers.
Next time you undertake a 'mammoth' walk it is probably advisable to take your trunk. :)