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3 LANGUAGE  Both English and Welsh are used there

4 All the road signs are both in English and Welsh

5 New South- Wales Beaches

6 Caerphilly castle

7 Some views on Wales

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11 CLIMATE  Wales has the sort of climate often described as "temperate". This means that it never gets very hot or very cold. May, June, July and August are the sunniest and driest months, but even in the winter a raincoat and sweater will usually cope with the worst that the weather has to offer.

12 St. David- the patron saint of Wales  March 1st is celebrated in Wales as St. David's Day. This is the most important day in the Welsh calendar and the day on which expatriates around the world remember their roots. It is a day for Welsh people to celebrate their culture and identity. St. David was an early crusader for Christianity in Wales and is supposed to have died on March 1st, 589. His remains were buried at what is now the Cathedral of St. David's in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. St. David

13 IMPORTANT PEOPLE  DYLAN THOMAS- a poet, born in Swansea  TOM JONES- SINGER  CATERINA ZETA- JONES- ACTRESS  ANTHONY HOPKINS- ACTOR

14 Welsh music  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGxa RXDCMxE&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGxa RXDCMxE&feature=fvw  http://www.echas.org/forum/inne/walia/m uzyka-z-walii

15 Welsh language  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrrPy mLOWgQ

16 The longest station in Wales  Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery chwyrndrobwyll- llantysiliogogogoch.

17 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WALES  The Prince of Wasles isn’t even Welsh  Wales isn’t represented on the Beitish Flag  Canada was explored and mapped by a Welshman  A Welshman invented a lawn tennis  The New York Times was invented by the Welshman

18  The world’s highest mountain is named after a Wlshman  The worlds biggest secon-hand bookshop is in Wales  Britain has no Death Penalty, thanks to a Welshman who was hunged for murder.  Wales is the most important sheep raising area in Europe.Europe  The last British person to die in WW I was a Welshman.

19  Welsh gypsies were the last speak Romani in EuropeEurope  The world's first wireless transmission took place in Wales.


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