Special features about Wales

Answer 1

# The weather. It rains all the time, and this more than anything defines Wales and the Welsh people. # Sheep. There aren't actually many of them left since the sheep industry was exported wholesale to New Zealand. But people still think of sheep when they think of Wales, so it counts as a "special feature". # The Welsh language. Nothing like English. Said to be the oldest language in Europe. Fiendishly difficult to learn. # Coal mines. There are actually none of them left working due to the success of the Thatcher government in crushing the entire industry, but you can visit a disused one in Blaenavon called Big Pit. # Catherine Zeta Jones. # Rugby. Contrary to popular misconceptions there never was a golden age when Wales was good at rugby, and nobody in Wales has actually played the game since the invention of the Playstation. # Suicide. A small town in South Wales became the teenage suicide capital of the world as a result of catastrophically poor ability among journalists to interpret and understand statistics. # Being next to England. Which became famous in the nineteenth century as home to the industrial revolution, which was fuelled in part by wood chopped down in, you guessed it, Wales. # Welsh rarebit (or "Welsh rabbit"). Basically cheese on toast. Nobody actually makes it any more because it's less bother to phone Dominos. # There probably is a 10 but I can't think what it might be at the moment.