Hi guys has anyone in different parts of UK travelled to Wales specifically to collect wedinos testing kits,? as far as I know you can only get them in Wales from salvation army and such like. I am thinking of traveling to Wales to have day or two out of England for the adventure and also to collect sample kits. What's the atmosphere like in Wales at the places to collect sample kits especially for an English citizen? I have been to Wales before but dodged the drugs scene there.
With business or professional transactions, your Englishness is unlikely to cause you any issues.
The Welsh language is dying, and is on life support, and It's only small regions of Wales that have welsh speaking communities, and where Nationalist sentiment runs high (a polite way of saying they hate the English, as a whole.)
These pockets of Welsh Wales are mainly in the north-west and west, nearby and surrounding and centered on the university towns of Bangor in the north, and spreading a distance down as far as Bala, Dolgellau, and Machynlleth, which are other srongholds for the language. In other mid-wales towns like Newtown and Welshpool barely anyone speaks Welsh. Even the Welsh people don't, and there's loads of English settlers in those towns. The North East of Wales has almost entirely lost it's Welshness. With places like Rhyl being full of scousers and Mancs having left their cities for various reasons.
And then you've got the university town of Aberystwyth on the west coast. Which is also very much Welsh Wales.
Mid Wales in mixed, with some welsh speaking communities and towns, and some not. There's barely any Welsh speaking that goes on in South Wales as a whole. Even among the Welsh citizens.
Wedinos is based near Cardiff. I'm not sure about the Welshness of Cardiff, but I don't think it's very Welsh. There obviously will be welsh speaking communities within the uni, as many Welsh speaking students prefer to stay within Wales for their degrees. And they only have 4 unis to chose from.
Whereabouts in Wales were you thinking of going? I'll possibly know if it's Welsh / Nationalist or not. But like I said originally, even if there are such elements in that area, it's very unlikely that it'll cause you any issues with your mission.
