In Wales, it’s eight different weathers in a day.
Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.
I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I’m very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on a few times, and now I’m able to assist the team, assist the young players coming through, and help the guys who do have the ambition to play more for Wales.
Under Milk Wood’ was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn’t even know what Wales was, let alone anything about Dylan Thomas. It taught me the beginning of my love of English literature.
I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant – she’d cook the fish he caught.
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and a sister and they were all very close. There would always be food on the table and uncles coming in and out. My father’s family were English and lived in London, and we didn’t really see them.
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
When the Wales squad met up for the 2005 autumn internationals, I was already concerned that we were slipping into bad habits. And, yes, the role of head coach Mike Ruddock was, in my opinion, becoming a problem that would eventually need to be addressed if nothing changed.
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
Every time I manage Wales and you win, the feeling is better than I’ve ever had as a club manager.
I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
I love playing for Wales.
When I’m playing for Wales Under-21s I’m always trying to do my best so if the manager is watching he can see I’m playing well.
Whenever I have an opportunity, I catch a train and go to Wales and hire a car and drive around.
I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it’s not a good story. That includes on education as well.
We’re going to pick a team that will go out there and give absolutely everything for Wales.
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they’re from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.
It’s Northern Ireland, it’s Ireland, it’s Scotland, it’s Wales, there’s Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.
I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet.
I was born in Swansea in the Principality of Wales in September 1934 and named Clive William John Granger. The ‘William John’ names were traditional Granger boy’s names, and my mother liked the name Clive because some popular musician at the time had it.
Everyone in London, Wales, and France made the ‘Merlin’ experience a very, very special one.
It’s everyone’s dream to represent Wales and when you get that chance, which I did at a young age, you’ve got to relish it.
My favorite movie is ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself – very existential.
I have – I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else – I can assure of that.
The first games were against Belgium and Switzerland, and that changed me as well because I used to play striker at Hull, and when I went away with Wales, I played as a winger.
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
Everything I ever did in my life when I was younger revolved around wanting to play for Wales, and then you get that cap… it’s hard to describe.
At international level, I’ve only ever wanted Wales.
I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.
Bale is an exceptional player; he’s shown that for years. He’s Wales’ talisman, and he’s been that for years and will be for years. He’s technically very gifted, very direct, has a wonderful kick and a lot of pace and a good finisher.
I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood – people stick together more.
I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.
It has always been my ambition to be captain of Wales over a sustained period of time.
I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home – I’ve been there 14 years now.
There was never a question of who I was going to play for. The English showed a bit of interest, but I was born in Wales raised in Wales so there was never any doubt about that.
It is massive progress in the space of a year being a Man United regular and playing for Wales. But things happen so quickly in football you have to be ready for anything.
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
I’m a regular guy, got the same friends. I live in the same area of south Wales. That’s who I am. I’m just a normal guy. I just fight.
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
I’ve played in nearly every league and country on these islands, apart from League One. I’ve played in Scotland, I’ve played in Wales, in the Premier League and in the Championship. I’ve been lucky to get a broad footballing education.
When Hull came calling it was a great, great move for me and when I went there I managed to get some goals and assists and get a senior Wales call-up.
I exchange text messages with Ryan Giggs quite a lot because he was a legend here and someone I see as a big inspiration. Obviously, with him being the manager for Wales he helps me a bit.
I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who’s not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they’re my friends. I don’t have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
I do not… look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine… I am… femi-none.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
