{"id":10248,"date":"2016-04-08T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-llanrwst-conwy\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:45:29","slug":"lets-move-to-llanrwst-conwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-llanrwst-conwy\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Llanrwst, Conwy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n You might be high in the Himalayas What\u2019s going for it? It\u2019s easy to forget the rest of the world exists when you\u2019re eating a slice of bara brith beside the Tu Hwnt l\u2019r Bont tearoom\u2019s elegant, three-arched bridge, all hairy with virginia creeper, like Hagrid out of Harry Potter. Llanrwst is deep in the Conwy valley, walled in by Snowdonia one way and its foothills the other. A blanket of hush envelops this artsy, majority Welsh-speaking town. You might be high in the Himalayas, inviolable. A few centuries ago, when Llanrwst was one of the biggest towns in Wales, it blew a great fat raspberry to Edward I and his flunkeys, and declared independence with its own flag and motto. And even as late as 1947 the local council, it is said, made an application for recognition to the United Nations. Spirited lot, this. Mind you, they need to be: the outside world has a habit of always creeping in. Or, er, flooding in…The case against Last Christmas, the Conwy burst its banks. The town has been known to flood before. There are new flood defences, but exceptional weather is pushing them hard. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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