Wales holiday apartments, homes and villas

Why choose a holiday home in Wales?

Male choirs, harpists, and solo artists are ingredients found in the scrumptious sounds of the musical menu that makes "the land of song" an apt nickname for Wales.

What magic is found in the traditions of the fiddle, triple harp, and hornpipe? Poetry and music create beautiful mural for the ear at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. The iconic Sir Tom Jones and amazing Charlotte Church are well known talent from Wales. You may be surprised that 60's power band "Badfinger" and 80's idol "The Alarm" both hail from here.

Laverbread is really seaweed and should be fried to a crispy veneer and served with scrambled eggs, thick bacon slices, and cockles. You can burn those calories with some folk dancing or clog dancing lessons. Dance is a joyous and popular hobby dating back to the 12th century.

Since 1896, Snowdon Mountain Railway has climbed the highest mountain in England and Wales. Hafod Eryri sits atop Snowdon and commands views to Ireland's Wicklow Mountains. Experience the sheer beauty that surrounded Richard Gere and Sean Connery while filming "First Knight" by visiting Trawsfynydd Lake in Snowdonia.

In Conwy you will discover the world's largest garden maze and the smallest home in Britain. One U.S. President called the literary and arts festival in Hay-on-Wye "the Woodstock of the Mind". Readings of works by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas are impressively alive.

Revel in Renoir's "Blue Lady", Monet's "Waterlilies" and Rodin's "The Kiss" at the National Museum in Cardiff.

Pembrokeshire is proud of their many celebrations. The Boat Festival, Leisure Festival, Jazz Festival, Beer Festival, Oyster Festival and the famed Viking Festival are hallmarks. Probe dramatic cliffs, bays and sandy coastline beaches, visit Skerries Lighthouse, and stop the Sea Zoo.

Medieval Beaumaris Castle, the elegant gothic features of Plas Newydd, and a lunar moonwalk on Copper Mountain are captivating. Revisit the dark ages when you stop by the historic Christian shrine of St. David's purpled stone cathedral in Pembrokeshire.

Nobody celebrates their ocean heritage better the producers of Pembrokeshire Fish Week. Each summer they offer more than 250 events for all ages.

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Contribution post: 18 January 2011