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Wales

Wales is a small, mountainous country next to England, and contains lots of mines which closed twenty years ago, lots of steel mills which closed twenty years ago and Aberystwyth.

As a result of the total lack of heavy industry, Wales is a picturesque country with very little by way of infrastructure and lots of castles and holiday parks around the coast.

In 1797, Wales played host to the last invasion of Great Britain by an enemy army, when French troops landed in Pembrokeshire. Upon seeing women wearing traditional Welsh costumes (mostly a big red dress and a black stovepipe hat) they assumed the British army had turned up ahead of schedule and ran away.

Since that time, Wales has only been able to attract tourists from mainland Britain, as nobody on the Continent has been told the French made a mistake.

© Andrew Steele & John Trevor-Allen 2005