Side of the Feeling at Home On the Other Welsh Teas World - Right Down to the Huge ; Fascinated Since Childhood with Its Remoteness Andwelsh Heritage, Sian Lloyd Had Always Dreamed of Visiting Patagonia. Here, the Presenter Realises a Lifelong Ambition and Finds Waiting Lists Forwelsh Schools and a People Looking to the Future of the Language

Western Mail › April 03, 2010

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I HAVE always had a sentimental attachment to Patagonia.

True, as a child attending Neath Welsh School and Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, I had an awareness of the existence of aWelsh-speaking community in far-off South America, but it was nothing more than that.

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Side of the Feeling at Home On the Other Welsh Teas World - Right Down to the Huge ; Fascinated Since Childhood with Its Remoteness Andwelsh Heritage, Sian Lloyd Had Always Dreamed of Visiting Patagonia. Here, the Presenter Realises a Lifelong Ambition and Finds Waiting Lists Forwelsh Schools and a People Looking to the Future of the Language

Patagonia didn't really figure on myradar, apart, that is, fromWelsh Exile day at the National Eisteddfod, meeting a raucous Rene Griffiths at my friends' wedding, and introducing the film Gaucho when I worked at S4C as a continuity announcer.

Like most Welsh people, I suspect, I had an embarrassingly patchy knowledge of this colony at the end of the world.

Even so, I knew that one day I would visit the place,...

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