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Hospitality & Hiraeth
Beyond the scenery and the castles, it's interactions with Welsh people that will remain in
your memory the longest. Perhaps you'll recall the moment when you were sitting in a
Caernarfon cafe, listening to the banter in the ancient British tongue dancing around you.
Or that time when you were in the pub, screaming along to the rugby with a red-shirted
mob. They talk a lot in Wales about
hiraeth
. A typically Welsh word, it refers to a sense
of longing for the green, green grass of home. Even if you're not from Wales, a feeling of
hiraeth
may well hit you when you leave, only to be sated when you return.
