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[leiafee]

I always find this thread hard to find - could it be added to the menus at the top maybe?

[RedGreenInBlue]

Right, Iestyn, here's a Welsh-speaking B&B for you to add:

Y Goeden Eirin, just south of Caernarfon
http://www.ygoedeneirin.co.uk/
which I found through this luscious review (tripped over while I was looking for info about the renovation of Nant Gwrtheyrn):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/m ... rfon-wales

What the review said about the proprietor made me curious, so I looked him up. Wow, now I *really* want to go stay there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowlands_(author)

Somehow I remembered your suggestion last week when my parents were asking me for somewhere to stay in the Caernarfon area. I just wanted to say we've booked two of the rooms for the weekend of the 15th September! Felly, diolch Diane, a dw i wir yn edrych ymlaen at fynd yno!

(Has anyone else been there, by the way?)

[Tahl]

Right, Iestyn, here's a Welsh-speaking B&B for you to add:

Y Goeden Eirin, just south of Caernarfon
http://www.ygoedeneirin.co.uk/
which I found through this luscious review (tripped over while I was looking for info about the renovation of Nant Gwrtheyrn):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/m ... rfon-wales

What the review said about the proprietor made me curious, so I looked him up. Wow, now I *really* want to go stay there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowlands_(author)

Somehow I remembered your suggestion last week when my parents were asking me for somewhere to stay in the Caernarfon area. I just wanted to say we've booked two of the rooms for the weekend of the 15th September! Felly, diolch Diane, a dw i wir yn edrych ymlaen at fynd yno!

Bendigedig! Make sure you have dinner there, btw. Here was my report on my stay at Y Goeden Eirin in February.

[markwatkinprice]

Caban, Caerdydd - bookshop

http://www.yell.com/b/Caban-Book+Shops- ... index.html
169, Kings Rd, Pontcanna, Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF11 9DE Tel: 02920 025998

Wnes i drio fyn ngyntaf Welsh In The Wild yno. Wnes i brynu llyfr, ond does dim syniad gyda fi pa lath o lyfr. Ond wnes i i'w wneud e. On i'n falch iawn o fy hun. Roedd y dyn yno'n ddefnyddiol iawn.

Ond weddodd e doedd neb arall o SSIW wedi dod yno ac does dim digon o bobl sy eisiau prynu llyfrau Cymraeg i gael mwy na ddau siop llyfr Cymraeg yng Nghaerdydd.

I tried my first welsh in the Wild there. I bought a book but had no idea what it was about. But I was very pleased with myself. The man there was most helpful.

But he said he had not had anyone previously in from SSIW and the demand for Welsh-only bookshops in Wales is the reason there are only 2 in Cardiff

[Tahl]

Caban, Caerdydd - bookshop
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But he said he had not had anyone previously in from SSIW and the demand for Welsh-only bookshops in Wales is the reason there are only 2 in Cardiff

He may personally not have met any of us, or been aware he was meeting us-- but search for Caban here on the website, and you'll see that lots of SSiWers (including me) shop there. Dee has even gotten Caban to put one of the SSiW stickers ('speak Welsh here!') in the front window!
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4221&p=50350&hilit=+Caban#p50350

And . . . llongyfarchiadau on your first Welsh in the wild!

[Lisa Rhiannon Dando]

Oh well, if all else fails ti`n gallu siarad cymraeg at the post office. I think atleast one person needs to be able to siarad cymraeg!

[Dee]

Caban, Caerdydd - bookshop
...
But he said he had not had anyone previously in from SSIW and the demand for Welsh-only bookshops in Wales is the reason there are only 2 in Cardiff

He may personally not have met any of us, or been aware he was meeting us-- but search for Caban here on the website, and you'll see that lots of SSiWers (including me) shop there. Dee has even gotten Caban to put one of the SSiW stickers ('speak Welsh here!') in the front window!
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4221&p=50350&hilit=+Caban#p50350

And . . . llongyfarchiadau on your first Welsh in the wild!

Yes, llongyfarchiadau, and shame I didn't know you were in the vicinity. I only live down the road, and SJ is pretty close by too!

Very disappointed that a new Coffee #1 has opened in Pontcanna not far from Caban and none of the staff speak Welsh though. I went for my first time last week to meet a friend, asked for a drink in Welsh and just got a blank look and "Sorry?" It didn't even seem to occur to the person serving that I could be speaking Welsh! When I met my friend, she confirmed that no one seems to speak Welsh and said she has already put in a complaint. Walking to a table I could hear that about half the patrons were Welsh-speaking. It's just not good enough to open a shop in a locality like that and not have any Welsh-speaking staff.

[Davand]

Coffee#1 are a local, reasonably good coffee chain. We use them for meet ups, so perhaps if we approached them they may be amiable to looking into this, or at least see if any of their staff would like to start SSiW????
Last time I came to the meetup in Coffee#1 by Central station Cardiff. I asked for my tea in Welsh, but the lady didn't speak it, so we switched to English but she was quite interested and didn't have a clue SSiWers meet there. After saying thanks you in Welsh at the end she happily tried to say it back, a positive response, but encouraging>

[hobbe]

Istyn
I met you briefly at the Eisteddfod and you told me there may be a converstion group for beginners in Llandysul this autumn and I should find out about it on the webpage - so far I'm not too clear how it works but I would be interested in any information about such a group a bit later. I'm probably away much of September and so may miss the first meetings.
Thanks for any information.
Anna Fickling

[Sionned]

Most of the time, meetups are posted in the area called "Meeting other SSIWers". For Llandysul, there is a thread called Llandysul Coffi a Chlonc which you can read to find out more about what they've done in the past and what they are planning. I would bet that, when they get set up again for autumn, they will post it there.