The Best Worldwide Locations For Astro Tourism
- Snowdonia in Wales ranks as the best spot in the UK
- Interlaken in Switzerland is the best place worldwide for astro-tourism
- 28% of travellers are planning to visit dark sky reserves in 2025
From admiring crystal-clear constellations to witnessing the mesmerising Northern Lights, astro-tourism is rapidly growing in popularity. In 2025, the trend is set to reach new heights, with a 53%* increase in travellers seeking destinations to experience the Aurora Borealis, while almost a third (28%)* plan to visit Dark Sky Reserves this year.
To help keen stargazers find the perfect location for their next cosmic adventure, Planet Cruise has conducted a study ranking the top global and UK destinations for astro-tourism.
The research considers key factors such as latitude, average elevation, light pollution levels and the number of Instagram posts mentioning the Northern Lights. From Finland to Hawaii, these are the best locations for witnessing the wonders of the night sky.
The best destinations in the UK for astro-tourism
Rank |
Location |
Latitude |
Avg Elevation (m) |
Light pollution |
1. |
Snowdonia, Wales |
52.90053
|
700 |
0.4 |
2. |
Wasdale (Scafell Pike), Cumbria |
54.45675
|
351 |
0 |
3. |
Derwentwater, Cumbria |
54.59478
|
265 |
0.2 |
4. |
North York Moors, Yorkshire |
54.37432
|
237 |
0 |
5. |
Yorkshire Dales (Richmond), Yorkshire |
54.26081
|
166 |
0.2 |
6. |
Shetland Islands, Scotland |
60.34662
|
4 |
1.9 |
7. |
Black Down, West Sussex |
51.06274
|
385 |
0.4 |
8. |
Cambrian Mountains (Llanidloes), Wales |
52.41609
|
267 |
0.4
|
9. |
Carding Mill Valley on the Long Mynd, Shropshire |
52.54564
|
280 |
0.7 |
10. |
Brecon Beacons, Wales |
51.87969
|
270 |
0.4 |
Snowdonia is the best location in the UK for astro tourism
Snowdonia, Wales, tops the UK rankings as the best location for stargazing. With an elevation of 700 metres and extremely low light pollution, it offers breathtaking views of the Milky Way, constellations, and even meteor showers. The vast national park provides numerous vantage points, ensuring an unforgettable stargazing experience.
Wasdale, home to England’s highest peak, Scafell Pike, ranks second. With zero light pollution and an elevation of 351 metres, it provides pristine night skies perfect for observing celestial wonders. Whether from the valleys or the peaks, Wasdale offers unparalleled opportunities for stargazing enthusiasts.
The best destinations worldwide for astro-tourism
Rank |
Location |
Latitude |
Avg Elevation (m) |
Avg Light Pollution |
Instagram posts mentioning ‘Northern Lights’ |
1. |
Interlaken, Switzerland |
46.68582
|
3,401
|
2 |
68 |
2. |
Reykjavik, Iceland |
64.13482
|
67
|
32.5
|
41,813
|
3. |
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Canada |
49.05253
|
1,481
|
1.4
|
10,057
|
4. |
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA |
19.80781
|
3,978
|
0.5
|
6 |
5. |
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia |
-20.1851
|
3,723
|
0 |
0 |
6. |
Leknes, Norway |
68.14699
|
60
|
10
|
15,578
|
7. |
Lapland, Finland |
67.73225
|
249
|
1.6 |
5,695
|
8. |
Gantrisch Dark Sky Zone, Switzerland |
46.70443
|
1,776
|
0.2 |
68 |
9. |
Hehuan Mountain, Taiwan |
24.17857
|
3,030
|
0.2 |
0 |
10. |
Kittila, Finland |
67.79493
|
254
|
8.1 |
5,695
|
Interlaken in Switzerland is the best location worldwide for astro tourism
Interlaken, Switzerland, claims the top spot thanks to its high elevation of 3,401 metres and low light pollution, making it an ideal location for stargazing. The Milky Way is often visible, and the area is popular for winter sports and outdoor activities, making it an adventure-lovers’ paradise.
Reykjavík, Iceland, ranks second, offering some of the best opportunities to see the Northern Lights due to its high latitude. Despite some light pollution in the city, excursions to darker areas allow for spectacular Aurora Borealis sightings, with over 41,000 Instagram posts showcasing its magical displays.
If you’d like to find out more about the best locations for astro tourism, please follow: https://www.planetcruise.com/en/top-astro-tourism-destinations

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Dot Whiteman Eryri. It’s official. Ask the BBC
Carol Jones are you the Wolf in Snowdonia?
Is west wales chronicle incapable of recognising the correct name ?
Phil Roberts All media have to use the native language now. Yr Wyddfa,Eryri. set in stone now pal. best learn it,unless you’re over 60.
Mal Humphreys shame they keep on stating also known as on bbc !
Phil Roberts Not at all. That’s common curtesy. Mind you,I don’t expect they’ll be adding ‘also known’in about 5 years time.
I love Snowdon.
Maria Rob Roberts Bless you Maria. It won’t be Snowdon for much longer. All media,TV,Newspapers,Radio,Education have to use the Cymraeg names. give it 20 years and the old english names will be defunct.
I hate this name for the Brecon Beacons. Keep it English first. No one will know where it is!
Tim Cox Ask the BBC Mate,Bannau Brycheiniog
Mal Humphreys yes,the media seem to swallow this stuff and totally promote it. I learnt compulsory Welsh in school for five years and those hundreds of hours were a total waste of time because none of that gibberish sank in. I should have learnt plumbing. That’s why I hate the Welsh language and I was born in Wales and have lived here for all of my life. Now they’re trying to force it on us.
Tim Cox ‘Hate the Welsh language’in your words. Wow! There we are then. You actually hate the language that was literally,the language your own family members spoke. The very language that led to your own personal existence. Or are you an immigrant or second generation immigrant?
Mal Humphreys No one in my family has ever spoken Welsh. I’m 68 and my grandfather came from Worcestershire to work in Barry Docks during the coal rush in the early 1900s and he made his permanent home in Barry from then on. My father,who would be 103 now if he was still alive was born in Barry and lived in Barry all of his life. I was born in Barry and have lived in Barry all of my life. I love Wales and the Welsh and I AM WELSH but why should that make me have any affinity for the Welsh language? To me it’s just an irrelevance and a bloody nuisance. Perhaps I live in the wrong part of Wales.
Going back to my original comment I believe this over promotion of the language by the Welsh Government is actually detrimental to tourism and a creeping move towards independence. I made the joke of intentionally confusing Yr Wyrru with the Brecon Beacons to make the point that perhaps your Japanese tourist will not have a clue where that is so the bus will take them to London instead.
Tim Cox I appreciate your honesty. Japanese Tourist are more likely to be attracted to Yr Wyddfa than Snowdon. I see you’re a second generation immigrant. Which means you avoided our mother tongue by vurtiue of historical timing. If your dad was Welsh your hate for the language may be different. 2nd generation immigrant mate. you’re not Welsh and never have been. that’s who you are. So please,ease off on your Hate for cymraeg fella.
I buried family members in Welsh language services so you just wind your neck in and show respect.
Mal Humphreys Why would you even suggest that I don’t have respect for your ancestors? It seems you are trying to insult me by calling me an immigrant. That is pathetic. I was trying to have an interesting discussion but I think you are a very hate-filled and bigoted person. So I’ll leave it there.
By the way,the media don’t swallow this stuff. The media are governed by the King’s Charter to report News as factual.
Gormes yn ôl iaith
It maybe the best destination but not the best viewing site.
The Dark Sky zones in South/Mid Wales offer a better viewing experience.
If you’re going to call snowdon by its Welsh name…then continue the article in Welsh….don’t half do things….its just plain stupid.
If you’re using English….then its Snowdon…
If you’re Welsh…then it’s Eryri…
Patrick Egan aghh and The Matterhorn,Mont Blanc,Oklahoma,what do yo then Patrick
Do you like Croissants,ever seen children play in a Kindergarden,ever drunk Champagne?
Patrick Egan shut up twat
Jason Paul Williams …is that the only think you can think of you inbred. Moron.
Patrick Egan no it’s not
Patrick Egan don’t be stupid…. Ben Nevis is Scots gaelic,I live in the North West Wales……Then it’s Yr Wyddfa,yn Eryri…As an Englishman,I respect the Welsh language,Yr iaith Gymraeg…. Would you call Mount Blanc,to a Frenchman,White Mountain…?
SNOWDON in SNOWDONIA
Ieuan Evans shut up you cont
Love Snowdonia x
Margret Elaine Eryri now. Ask the BBC
Glyn Jones Welsh is native language of Wales English is not .English only started to be spoken in 19th century because of ind revolution in Wales.Children in schools if they spoke welsh they whould be punished welsh people had no choice but to speak English why shouldn’t we use welsh place names you can still use English.
Glyn Jones you are bigoted Eryri is the welsh name for Snowdonia Eryri is easy to say .And English is not native language of Wales Welsh is. God hep us if choose to use our own language Scottish have there own language so do the Cornish no doubt you will get upset with that
Gareth Jones So wright in Welsh. You are writing in English. So it’s Snowdon in Snowdonia.
Ieuan Evans I’am writing in English so you can understand what I’am saying if i was writing in welsh you wouldn’t understand what was saying why get so upset because I said Eryri is the welsh name for Snowdonia it’s not had to say but if want to use Snowdonia o.k iam proud to be welsh are you ?
If you’re not Welsh/don’t live here,don’t try telling us what to call things.
Mark Hughes I am Welsh and if you are writing in English it’s Snowdon in Snowdonia.
Ieuan Evans yet you don’t write your first name in English?
Ian Moore It’s Latin/ Hebrew and not Welsh. You take the most common names in Wales Evans and Jones There was no J in the Welsh alphabet and there is still no V.
Ieuan Evans Do your research! There is a J in the Welsh alphabet! It’s been around a long long time!!!
Carol Jones Wrong J was added in 1987. Do your research.
Ieuan Evans yep 40 years is a long time!
Ah,beautiful Snowdonia. Such a magical place.
Peter Jones Eerie is how one who call it.
Anyway I am sticking to Snowdonia.
I’m Welsh and have no idea what you’re talking about!
Kim Price it’s a good place to go star watching as it’s dark with no light pollution
Karen Smaali I know about those I’m talking about the Welsh language
Kim Price sorry thought you didn’t realise what it meant
Kim Price dark skies allow people to see the stars and other astrological events which are normally obscured by light pollution from street lighting.
Kim Price oh,I apologise. There are plenty of opportunities to learn if you want it.
Eryri…..and nothing else.
Hywyn Roberts
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Hywyn Roberts in my whole World it is Snowdonia.
Hywyn Roberts I pity you,❤❤❤
Glyn Jones . O Bechod. Cymru am Byth.
Glyn Jones Dic Sion Dafydd ?
Hywyn Roberts Then Write in Welsh.
Ieuan Evans . I can write in either language i prefer to,that is the benefit of being bi-lingual…this does not change the fact that the official names are now Yr Wyddfa and Eryri. Cymru am Byth.
Hywyn Roberts it is still Snowdon or Snowdonia.
Just because a quango of a National Park,ran by braindead,backward looking and inward thinking racists say otherwise,we just ignore them. No legal standing whatsoever.
As this IS the West Wales Chronicle..,..
As happens so often,a positive post about Wales is hijacked by some who have a very negative view of Cymraeg. It’s very sad to see people getting triggered by the existence of a language other than English (even if it is in a country which isn’t England).
Stephen Wild They are pitiful and pathetic and will almost certainly have voted for Brexit .
Susanne Hurley Wales voted for Brexit.
Oh. They mean snowdonia.
That place people have heard of.
Richard Whitcombe no,they mean Eryri. It really isn’t difficult.
Richard Whitcombe Listen Dickardo or Rickileu or whatever your name is,we’ll have none of your foreign rubbish here ! It’s ERYRI.
Richard Whitcombe No
Sarah Sims you
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Glyn Jones aww your mother has dyed her hair. Nice.
Richard Whitcombe They’ll soon get used to Eryri
Richard Whitcombe ah look,another Englishman afraid of another language
David Witts we speak English in Wales
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Richard Whitcombe Poor you.
Richard Whitcombe well said.
Richard Whitcombe Frankly,the world doesn’t give a flying Fluc what you’ve heard of. By the way it’s a capital S in your language.
Love snowdonia
Craig Sheehan Eryri
Susanne Hurley Snowdonia in English
Glyn Jones When jn Wales,even if you can’t speak Welsh at least call landmarks by their Welsh name rather than after some trumped up aristocrat .
Susanne Hurley Wales meaning foreigner in our own country of Cymru. You seem happy too use the country name given by trumped up aristocrats.
Susanne Hurley The name “Snowdon”means “snow hill”and is derived from the Old English elements “snāw”and “dūn”,the latter meaning ‘hill’. “Snowdonia”is simply taken from the name of the mountain.
When I moved here it was called snlwdonia. When I worked on the summit of snowdon it was called snowdonia I still live here in snowdonia.
Officially it is eryri and so it should be
This is Facebook and my memories and my photography and my involvement within the national park have all been done under the name snowdonia. And that will continue.
Both names are correct and work together.
I’m also a Welsh nationalist and fully support the fight for the language.
Bit the silly tit for tat just makes us look weekend and devided between ourselves. It’s both names. You can not delete the history and the power of snowdon and snowdonia. Try and search the history of Llanberis without the word snowdon. See how the snowdon mountain railway company saves Llanberis. Learn about the millions of pounds and hundreds of businesses who have made themselves known using the name snowdonia. They don’t suddenly not exist.
It’s both names.
Mal Humphreys the point is that you don’t understand the history of snowdonia.
Calimero Dafis
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Because it’s welsh name for Snowdonia it’s not hard to say why should we keep it welsh language version
Gareth Jones I’ve heard Welsh people pronounce it 3 different ways though. Can you clear things up and put it phonetically please?
Pete Donaldson Mynydd Yr Wyddfa. Parc Eryri.
Calimero Dafis it is Englander is a capital E.
Glyn Jones little englander
Call it Snowdonia and everyone will know where you mean.
Keep Eryri for the Welsh language version.
Steve Joyce use Eryri out of respect and soon enough everyone will know what it is. After all when was the last time even you called Sri Lanka Ceylon….? Keep the English for private conversations among the earful egomaniac monoglots
Gethin Jones English is a native language of Wales.
You need to show respect to Snowdonia in English communications.
Glyn Jones you really make Uncle Tom look like Nelson Mandela. You are as stupid as you are craven
Gethin Jones are you incapable of giving a proper answer?
Did you know,usually stupid people call others stupid.
Glyn Jones what’s your problem with calling it by its Welsh name ? You’re Welsh,at least your name suggests as much.. why on earth so you think the Welsh should always bow down to the English… all over the world (thank goodness) those countries taken over by colonialism are reverting to their original names from their own language and here you are fighting for the colonial names to stay … so weird .
Suki Morys Jones originated from Huntingdonshire,whilst there is a town in Ireland named Glyn.
Next question.
Glyn Jones you didn’t answer the first … what’s your problem with people calling it by its Welsh name? But actually you already answered it .. ‘ originated from Huntingdonshire’ .. you say everyone else are Welsh fanatics but you have shown that actually it’s you with the problem… anti Welsh … arrogance at its best .old fashioned colonialism .
Suki Morys you are an inward looking backward thinking individual.
Your English punctuation and grammar is appalling.
You think everyone has to think as stupid as you.
Just get a little immature you.
Steve Joyce well said. Snowdonia will always be it’s name in English.
For someone so concerned about English,I’m surprised that you don’t know when to use ‘its’. What were you saying about respect?
Steve Joyce have some respect,it is ERYRI
Kath Wilias you have some respect,it is Snowdonia.
Kath Wilias yes it is.
Kath Wilias well it wasnt for the first 65 years of my life.
Steve Joyce tough,it is for the rest of it!
Of course,nut it’s true name is in the language of our country ERYRI
Kath Wilias
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Kath Wilias the language of our Country is English.
Glyn Jones so you live in England then?
Glyn Jones I know what you’re up to. Thicko
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Steve Joyce Call it Eryri and leave the dimwits to work it out for themselves. Bless.
Gareth John Roberts you can call it what you want just dont ram it onto those of us who know it as Snowdon.
95% of Wales speak English .
Steve Joyce No-one’s ramming it anywhere hun,you’re the one working yourself up into a tizzy over a Welsh word for a Welsh place in wales. You’re the one attempting to make an issue of this very Welsh word being used freely in an English language news outlet in Wales about a place in Wales. You’ll find even most English speakers in Wales have no problem with this. Now YOU call it what you want. Like the vast majority of people on this thread,we WILL keep calling it Eryri.
Gareth John Roberts Diolch.
Croeso a cymer ofal,Steve!
Steve Joyce I don’t speak welsh. But imo no. It’s Eryri,the language is part of Welsh culture. Practice saying it until you can pronounce it correctly. Doesn’t take long.
Wil Wallis we also speak English in Wales.
In Wales we also call it SNOWDONIA.
It is our choice to use English and speak our native English language and English Welsh cultural.
Glyn Jones we do not call it Snowdonia in Wales
Kath Wilias we DO call it Snowdonia in WALES.
Glyn Jones there we are then (hint:first letter of each word)
Kath Wilias ???
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I think she has gone off into a parallel universe (or come back from one). Diolch.
Kath Wilias
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Steve Joyce looks like a fake account ran by a backward thinking,inward looking braindead individual.
Take care. Diolch
Glyn Jones look again at the first letter of each word in the sentence,Dumbo
Glyn Jones how can you be so Anti-Welsh language.
James Stevens why are you so ANTI ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Wil Wallis what % of Welsh actually speak Welsh.
Minority trying a woke rebranding exercise.
I
Steve Joyce woke? Don’t think so. The language is part of what makes wales different and culturally strong. I contributes to part of our separate cultural identity. I had the right to speak it taken away from me for various reasons but it doesn’t mean I can’t support it.
Glyn Jones WE CALL IT ERYRI always have always WILL
Bethan Williams WE CALL IT SNOWDONIA always have always WILL.
Steve Joyce no thanks,it’ll be Eryri,like Bannau Brycheiniog
James Stevens
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James Stevens
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Steve Joyce I never struggle to find Pontardawe or Llanelli..
Steve Joyce nobody asked
Steve Joyce Did you know what Eryri meant?
David Williams yes its Snowdon for the woke generation.
Steve Joyce “Woke”? You probably don’t even know what that means.
David Williams It’s an English word sorry I dont know the Welsh for it.
Steve Joyce You probably don’t know the English definition and context either.
David Williams you do not know the meaning of “woke”.
Steve Joyce ummm,Snowdon is not Eryri. Snowdon is Yr Wyddfa. Eryri is Snowdonia.
Jan Lee keep it to Snowdon and Snowdonia,lot easier.
Glyn Jones you can call it what you want. Nobody is going to stop you. But taking pride in being insolent about it is very childish and reflects rather badly on you.
Glyn Jones Yes.
No it’s Eryri
Steve Joyce in that case,you speak Welsh when you come to Wales .. job done .
Suki Morys In reply to your racist comment to Steve Joycee.
Like myself,he can use whatever language he likes.
Wales as part of the United Kingdom,use English as a main Language,you need to respect this.
Steve Joyce well you managed to realise where it was talking about.
Steve Joyce Aright Steffan Jois
Steve Joyce No.
Steve Joyce People are coming round to Eryri and Wyddfa now,not all people have closed minds
Angharad Williams
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Glyn Jones Idiot
Angharad Williams you
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Glyn Jones that’s not racist. It’s in response to your cognitive dissonance. It’s a diagnosis of your condition.
Steve Joyce I am English. I speak no Welsh. I have lived in N Wales since 1980,more than half my life. I totally support the use of Welsh and Welsh names. People from England are often unaware of Welsh speaking and during the Brexit debate many used England as synonymous with the UK. We have had far too much of English colonisation,thank you
Stephen Leeder I have lived in Wales longer than you and it is still Snowdonia.
Stephen Leeder lived longer in Wales than you,it is still Snowdonia
Steve Joyce hows about,you…Go suck yer nan
Steve Joyce Twp.
Steve Joyce its name has changed. It’s not difficult to pronounce. However,cognitive dissonance is a bit more difficult to deal with.
Paul Ap Rhys you do know south Wales isnt really wales ?
Paul Ap Rhys the name is still Snowdonia.
Steve Joyce I live in Cardiff. I live in Wales. The mountain in Eryri is called Yr Wyddfa
Paul Ap Rhys Only by you and the other 5% of Welsh Speakers. Which is fine call it what you want. Call a microwave “popty ping”.
Steve Joyce that is not microwave in Welsh. That’s based upon ignorance. For myself I respect the language our ancestors left us. Obviously,you’re a second-class English man.
Paul Ap Rhys Diolch .
Steve Joyce just because you know the word for thanks in Welsh it doesn’t make you a first class Welshman. You remain a second class Englishman.
Paul Ap Rhys
We are all British. Diolch yn fawr.
Steve Joyce looks like thatPaul Ap Rhys thinks “SNOWDONIA is a Mountain in SNOWDON!!”
Probably a fake profile.
Or a bot thing.
Steve Joyce We don’t want people to know.
Steve Joyce Wales is supposed to be bilingual but the Welsh nationalist’s ignore that.
Steve Joyce twat
Owain Davies are you a descendant?
Eryri
Lee James I have altered the name on Facebook,but sadly as it’s a press release I have not got access to the main article to alter it,I will be mentioning to the editor
Tegwen Haf Parry no problem.
West Wales Chronicle it is still known as SNOWDONIA.
West Wales Chronicle please respect both names in either Language.
Glyn Jones Glyn the anti Welsh English nationalist,f-off back to England
Sian Teifi keep your racism to yourself.
Thank you..
Glyn Jones no Glyn it is now known as Eryri.
West Wales Chronicle and it is still known as SNOWDONIA.
The Snowdon Mountain Railway / Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa uses both names.
So can you.
Glyn Jones I sed you have more than enough bigotry to share
Emyr Jenkins the bigotry on this page by these Welsh fanatics is disgusting.
Glyn Jones why do you object to us using our own language in our own country?
I suppose you are the kind of gammon who goes to Spain and demand the menus are in English and have a tantrum if you can’t have egg,beans and chips
Emyr Jenkins English is a native language of Wales and Snowdonia is in the language I wish to use.
Not only are you a bigot,but a racist as well.
Glyn Jones I think that’s you actually.
We can add imbecilic tantrumic manchild to that as well
Only a total idiot would say English is a native language of Wales.
Grow up and learn our language you xenophobic poltroon
Glyn Jones Eryri,yr Wyddfa
Lee James Snowdon or Snowdonia in my language.
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Glyn Jones you can call it whatever you like. Unlike you,I’m not trying to impose a language on others. But if you mean the National Park,its name is Eryri. Sorry if that fact upsets you.
Stephen Wild so you are the one IMPOSING a language onto me and others.
We will call it Snowdon and Snowdonia and you can not stop us.
Glyn Jones as I said,you can call it whatever you like,in whatever language you prefer. The National Park is a legally constituted entity,which has chosen the name Eryri. I’m genuinely sorry (and completely baffled) that this upsets you so much.
Stephen Wild the National Park Committee are simply racists.
Both names worked well. Wales is a bilingual Country and these racists can not force generations to change names.
My dad was a Welsh speaker and always called it Snowdon.
Glyn Jones get yourself onto the board. Using Welsh is not racist,by the way. Neither is using English. I’m baffled by your hate. But I’ll leave you to it. Mwynhewch!
Stephen Wild attacking another language is racism.
Glyn Jones stop doing it then
Glyn Jones invading colonist language you mean.
Lee James how can the British invade the British?
Glyn Jones The romans called the native Combrogi people (Britons)they’re not the same as the made up colonist words Britains or British,the Cymry never willingly joined the Act of Union,they were annexed by the invading colonist English.
The two invading colonists (scotti)&(english).forming British / Britain,(Uk).those terms are a concept of the Act of union between those colonists and are not the same as who the romans called Britons.
Suki Morys so what is Welsh then.
James Hagley the names,where seats have two names,should have been bilingual.
With technology,I would doubt if the costs would have been different.
Lee James So write in Welsh then 83% of Welsh people can ignore your comments.
Beautiful Snowdonia.
Glyn Jones Eryri you English nationalist racist twerp,cont twp
Glyn Jones you are an English nationalist rectal basher
Calimero Dafis you are a British citizen,with no understanding of Nationality.
See the Doctor about your piles.
Glyn Jones cer i gachu.
Owain Davies using the Welsh Language as a form of swearing,I see.
DISGUSTING
Glyn Jones I see you’re a Tory boy,deflected to Deform yet
It’s not known as Snowdonia anymore –it’s known by it’s Welsh name of Eryri even in English
Eryri
Eryri.