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Across the Menai Strait from Caernarfon, Anglesey (Ynys Mon) welcomes visitors to "Mam Cymru", the Mother of Wales, attesting to the island's former importance as the national breadbasket. In the twelfth century Giraldus Cambrensis noted that "when crops have failed in other regions, this island, from its soil and its abundant produce, has been able to supply all Wales", and while feeding their less productive kin in Snowdonia is no longer a priority, the land remains predominantly pastoral, with small fields, stone walls and white houses reminiscent of parts of Ireland or England. Linguistically and politically, though, Anglesey is intensely Welsh, with seventy percent of the islanders being first-language Welsh-speakers. The island was the crucible of pre-Roman druidic activity in Britain, and there are still

numerous Neolithic remains at which to soak up the atmosphere of a pagan past. Especially since the recent advent of the A55 main road, many people charge straight through to Holyhead and the Irish ferries, missing out on the many charms of Anglesey. There's the ancient town of Beaumaris , with its fine castle, the Whistler mural at Plas Newydd and some superb coastal scenery: a necklace of fine sandy coves and rocky headlands that's a match for anywhere in the country.

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