Tel. +44 (0)1273 600030 (UK)
We offer a genuine Welsh welcome at our Snowdonia guesthouse and want our guests to get a true feel of the area – not only the views of mountains and sea, but also the history of the locality, its culture, the place names, the eisteddfodau, Welsh traditional music, the chapels with their hymn singing.
We encourage guests to attend events at Galeri Arts Centre, religious services at local chapels, heritage centres at Rhosgadfan and Clynnog Fawr, the art gallery at Llangefni, or local agricultural shows and sheep dog trials. We can teach a little Welsh, and let them into the secrets of local poets and writers.
Guests are encouraged to spend a few days with us at our Snowdonia guesthouse, and not to rush through with only a superficial glimpse. In this way they will gain an insight into local life and culture and realize the threat which the Welsh language and culture faces at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We believe as much in linguistic and cultural diversity as we do in biodiversity, and the word about the Welsh language and its culture should be spread to all corners.
As well as helping our guests to get under the skin of local life, we also hope to help the local community to benefit in a small way from our activities. Everyone who has worked on renovating our house is Welsh-speaking and local. This is also true of those who clean or help in the garden, and of course of the farmer who rents our land for rough grazing.
We buy most of our food locally - meat, fish, milk and eggs and cheese, vegetables, fruits and herbs (some of these come from our own garden in season).
In these days of global warming and globalisation, we endeavour to recycle most of our waste products, and to compost whatever is suitable. Separate boxes are available for the use of staff and our guests for this purpose. We have solar panels on the roof of our outbuildings, walls and ceilings are well-insulated, low-energy bulbs are used and we encourage low consumption of water. Ecover cleaning products are used, and there are organic toiletries in the bathrooms. All this may be just a small contribution, but even this makes a difference.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
