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Friday Guest: Julie Fen-Chong<\/em><\/p>\n Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. (Robert Frost) Friday Guest: Julie Fen-Chong Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. (Robert Frost) What surprised and charmed me most in Arthur\u2019s kingdom is not only welsh language and the consequent local names \u201cBetws-y-coed\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/walesguide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sDxzW-guide","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>What surprised and charmed me most in Arthur\u2019s kingdom is not only welsh language and the consequent local names \u201cBetws-y-coed\u201d (pronounce bet us y cod) \u201cDolgellau\u201d (dolgeslau), but also the way British people write their walking guides: \u00ab\u00a0Go over the stile and then half RIGHT across a field to a gap in a wall, about 50 yards ahead. Continue through this gap and go half LEFT to reach another gap in the wall 100 yards ahead\u201d\u00bb
\n\u2028No roadsign, no cairn at each crossroads to point you the right path, no white and yellow sign in case you got lost as the fog or the night suddenly comes\u2026 In these guides, there are just some hints on the different walls you\u2019ll have to cross, the farms\u2019 courtyards you\u2019ll walk through silently to avoid disturbing the cattle. And even when you start wondering if the guide is right, because the directions seem uncertain, it finally proves to be, prompting us to believe in what we see and to confide in the persistence of these man-made constructions in order to find our path.
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