19 Small Moments That Excite Every Welsh Person

    Cymru am byth.

    1. When you run for the twice-a-day train out of the sticks and make it with a few seconds to spare.

    2. When someone half-mockingly asks you to pronounce a Welsh word, thinking you've got no chance, and you nail it.

    3. When, on a night out, you bump into someone who you met once as a child and make like you're long lost friends.

    4. When you reach into your pocket and have the exact change for the bus.

    5. The fact that it probably takes you under an hour to drive to a spectacular beach.

    6. When people joke about how one of Wales' villages is a ridiculous nonsense word, and you chip in "oh, you mean Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgo…gogogoch?"

    7. When you order Welsh rarebit and it's perfectly gooey, mustardy, and leeky.

    8. When you buy a drink in a bar and get a fistfull of change back from a fiver.

    9. The fact that everyone wears a daff on St David's Day, no questions asked.

    10. When you're just chilling somewhere in public and a Welsh sing-along breaks out around you.

    11. Getting the chills by seeing a Welsh male voice choir singing the songs you sang in primary school.

    12. When you risk going out without a brolly and it doesn't rain.

    13. When a stranger recognises the fact that you're Welsh from your accent (especially if yours is quite Anglicised).

    14. When you have English friends to stay and they conclude that Wales isn't a mythical land with nothing to do.

    15. Having a proper cuppa and a chinwag in the café with your mam, tad, bamps, or mamgu.

    16. When Wales win anything.

    17. Climbing up a giant hill and feeling like the King or Queen of Cymru.

    18. When you meet a non-Welsh person who knows that Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor, and Aberystwyth are not next to each other.

    19. This sign: