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Living in a Dark Skies Reserve – The Northern Lights
Eryri/Snowdonia National Park is designated as an International Dark Reserve. This means we live in an area that makes sure that light pollution is kept to a minimum and we get to see the night sky in all its glory. For those of you that live in town’s and cities, this does mean that street…
Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon – A useful guide to visiting England and Wales’s highest Mountain
Yr Wyddfa is the Welsh name for Snowdon’s peak. Yr Wyddfa is the highest peak in the Yr Wyddfa Massif, otherwise known as the Snowdon Range or Massif and is part of three mountain groups in Eryri (the Welsh name for Snowdonia) that include mountains over 3000ft. The Snowdon Horseshoe is the name given to…
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Myths and legends
The most talked about and walked about mountain in Britain, YrWyddfa/ Snowdon, is one of the main reasons people come to stay with us at Aberconwy House. As we are only about 30 minute drive away to some of the main routes traversed up the mountain we have the perfect spot to plan a climb…
Welsh National Costume: The Welsh Hat, undressed – Part 2
Following on from Part 1 which looked at the origins of the Welsh painting ‘Salem’ that depicted what was meant to be typical Welsh costume, research seems to show that the traditional Welsh costume had actually come about more as a marketing ploy than as a definitive look practised by the Welsh. The popularity of…
Welsh National Costume: the origins of a painting – Part 1
We have a copy of the Welsh national icon picture ‘Salem’ displayed in our breakfast room. We often get asked by guests about it and we always ask them to find ‘the devil’ in the picture. This proves frustrating for some as they struggle to find it and have to ask us to point it…
Somewhere over the rainbow….
Way up high there’s a land that I dreamed of once in a lullaby….. Well we can promise you a beautiful land in the hills and valleys of North Wales and dreams while sleeping in our comfortable bedrooms, but the lullaby is up to you as we don’t offer that as a service here at…
What’s in a Name?
Aberconwy House is one of the more pronounceable Welsh names and there is a story attached to why our guest house has this name. First of all Aber means estuary or river mouth and therefore Aberconwy’s translation is estuary or mouth of the river House – doesn’t quite have the same flow to it…
