Aberystwyth, Off Season. WelshBloke Walking

[@crwydryn]

Diolch👍

[@WillHuw]

Croeso

[@crwydryn]

welcome?@@WillHuw

[@WillHuw]

@@crwydryn Yes, you're welcome :)

[@kathiejohns1418]

Wales is my ancestral homeland! So you were born in the month of January.....I was born in December 1951! Love these tours you do!Please keep doing them

[@WillHuw]

I'll try my best Kathie. Thanks for watching

[@roseybut]

Thanks Will. I too love seaside towns in the winter when they are cold and empty. I tend to avoid them in season when they are packed and expensive.

[@WillHuw]

Couldn't agree more :)

[@MrNomadnero]

Recent subscriber and Dw i'n trio dysgu Cymraeg. Im now planning a trip to Aber one day this week. Thanks.

[@WillHuw]

Diolch am wylio ac pob lwc efo eich ymweliad. Mae'r tywydd yn ofnadwy!

[@hilaryclare4030]

Took the funicular when the kids were little but have never walked up the hill. We were last in Aber in October and could hardly stand up in the wind on the prom. Excellent film Billy

[@WillHuw]

Cheers Hilary. It is a windy old place :)

[@MsLemonPeach]

I was in Aberystwyth in 2019 to see the filming location of Hinterland. I wasn't sure which building it was. Now i know it😉. Thanks. The view of Aberystwyth is fantastic. Greetings from Germany

[@WillHuw]

Glad to have helped :)

[@gedhuffadine1873]

Hi will, englishman learning welsh ime 70 this year!

[@WillHuw]

You can do it! Just amarfer, amarfer amarfer :)

[@barbaragroome2119]

Can’t believe you are 70 ! Very enjoyable video as always.

[@WillHuw]

😊 Thanks Barbara

[@gwilwilliams5831]

Diolch yn fawr iawn Will. I enjoyed the walk and the magical poetic touches.

[@WillHuw]

Diolch am wylio Gwil :)

[@TheMercian01]

Been to Wales so many times but always gone north or south of Aberystwyth and never visited the town. Thanks for the tour

[@WillHuw]

Cheers. Aber is always well worth a visit.

[@DoingItCheap]

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful countryside with us. I have watched you off and on for years !!

[@WillHuw]

Thanks so much for watching :)

[@conradstone6719]

I am an Aberystwyth boy born and bred, many times I flown my paraglider off Constitution hill and Pen Dinas, no where in the world compares on a sunny day with Wales( and I have flown in many countries in the world ) but I am obivously Biased,

[@WillHuw]

You have every right to be biased - It's a lovely place :)

[@jhgrees]

These days Aber is like a graveyard and you'd know what it's like living in one of those Conrad. 😉⚰

[@Lovedayperiwinkle]

Seriously, You must be joking about your age!! Love your videos thank you 🙏

[@WillHuw]

😊 thank you

[@metarzanusport]

I have written a crime fiction book (ex North Wales Police DI) based in Bangor, but later Aber.

[@WillHuw]

Hope it does well for you Olli. Thanks for watching.

[@MilmoWood]

Another amazing video. A huge congratulations 🎊 on your big 70. I would never have guessed 70, but there you go!!!

[@WillHuw]

Cheers Milmo :)

[@welshy8216]

Happy Birthday Will..

[@WillHuw]

Cheers Welshy

[@jimqpublic2]

Thank you for tour. We will visit Wales from California in February and I'm looking forward to some of the landscapes that I saw on Hinterland. I hope at least some restaurants and lodging are open!

[@WillHuw]

Have fun!. I'm sure there will be one or two :0

[@TreforTreforgan]

Off season=off saeson😁

[@WillHuw]

I see what you did there ;)

[@barbaragroome2119]

Can’t believe you are 70 ! Enjoyed the video very much as usual

[@stephensmith799]

Next time, kick the bar. Ask a local what to do, why and the origins of the ritual.

[@WillHuw]

Very intriguing. Can you enlighten us?

[@stephensmith799]

@@WillHuwKicking the bar is done for luck. However ‘kicking’ is an exaggeration. The correct technique is to place a foot on the bar at the North end of the prom and for the absolute purist the same thing needs doing at the southern extremity of the prom ie at the harbour. Why foot the bar rather than kick it as if kicking a ball? The following is theory: The same day that the National Library of Wales was opened officially in 1911 (marking a new charter for an existing library) a royal party including King George 5th also visited the Alexandra Hall next to that north end bar. (It is known as The Alex) Formalities completed, one of the party, perhaps the then Prince of Wales needed to tie his shoe laces. That bar mentioned above was a convenient prop. As the party walked away back along the prom, a mild mockery was made of the official party by several members of the public tying their laces ostentatiously on the bar. My sense of it was that it was a mildly mocking, mildly Welsh nationalistic gesture. The habit stuck. As an aside in the 1950s I used to live in Craiglais House, demolished in the 1970s. Our flat looked down on the bar and The Alex, a 100% women’s student residence then. Craglais House stood on that grassy mound which you walked next to on your walk up Constitution Hill (aka Consti) At midnight during rag week (probably) all the students streamed out of The Alex and ran up Consti in their nighties. I was probably three years old but the sight made a big impression on me. I think they were yelling and whooping. It looked fun, though unusual! We called them ‘The Wild Wild Women’. The survivors will be in their late eighties of nineties now, I think. Yes. They made quite an impression illuminated by moonlight. Nights in White Satin, almost? Is it a joke that the cafe at the top of the hill is called ‘Consti’, which is a complaint of the large intestine? Craiglais is the Welsh name for Consti. It means either Blue Rock or Green Rock as ‘glais’ used to be used to mean either green or blue. Only later was ‘gwyrdd’ introduced for the colour green.

[@WillHuw]

Lol. Very Interesting and very entertaining. I'll be sure to "Kick the bar" next time. Diolch Stephen.

[@stephensmith799]

@@WillHuw For some strange reason I can recall about 80 events that happened when we lived in Craiglais House. Alas these recollections wouldn’t interest other folks!

[@RobCharles1981]

Really enjoyed that Will I've been to Aber a couple of times in the past but will one day go up there to have an explore! :-)

[@WillHuw]

You should Rob. Well worth the climb :)

[@RobCharles1981]

@@WillHuw and may impress Ian Adams with the famous line! :-)

[@Sudeshvlogz]

Why don't you upload on the meejah channel?

[@WillHuw]

They demonitised the channel

[@tyrozone5]

Penblwydd hapus Will!

[@WillHuw]

Diolch yn fawrr Tyro.

[@r2dadizubz]

Gweld da am 69 Will! Diolch am y ffidio.

[@WillHuw]

Diolch i chi, ac diolch am wylio.

[@alanlong1971]

Thats the time of year to go Will, great vlog and happy 70th.

[@WillHuw]

Thanks 👍

[@baruchpinnick811]

Wow ... 70 and still going strong Will! You look great, and your videos just get better with age. Best of luck for the next 10 years and hope to see your 80th birthday offering on KZbin. And, to quote from what I once learned from some old geezer on KZbin, "Penblwydd hapus annwyl Will!!" 😜

[@WillHuw]

Diolch yn fawr iawn Baruch :)

[@WyeExplorer]

I've sat and had a cuppa tea in the pier whilst the Starlings do their murmuration. It's a sureal experience. Great video - love Aber. Mark

[@WillHuw]

It really is! Amazing experience.

[@WyeExplorer]

@@WillHuw For sure. Peace.

[@warmanhall8951]

Those beacon bases look like frisbee golf targets here in the US.

[@WillHuw]

As my wife says, size isn't everything... 😉

[@djwarren5081]

Looking good Will. As someone who lived in Ambleside, the peace and quiet during covid restrictions was amazing. Thanks for posting.

[@WillHuw]

Thanks for watching :)

[@markleveson6093]

Another lovely video Will. Diolch yn fawr and heol fawr i chi 🙋‍♂😊

[@WillHuw]

Diolch am wylio Mark.

[@markleveson6093]

@@WillHuw: Mae croeso mawr i chi, Will