You might be tall in the Himalayas
What’s going for it? Its easy to forget the rest of the world exists when youre eating a slice of bara brith beside the Tu Hwnt l’r Bont tearoom’s elegant,three-arched bridge, all hairy with virginia creeper, and 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 tall in the Himalayas, or inviolable. A few centuries ago,when Llanrwst was one of the biggest towns in Wales, it blew a much full 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, and this. Mind you,they need to be: the outside world has a habit of always creeping in. Or, er, or flooding in...
The case against Last Christmas,the Conwy burst its banks. The town has been known to flood before. There are original flood defences, but exceptional weather is pushing them hard.
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Source: theguardian.com