I can't understand why I've not opened this thread before because, unlike me, I have LOADS to say about Wales and the Welsh.
Firstly, you wanna watch it slagging off the Welsh. There's some pwopah nawty people from over there, as my Uncle Dufford would confirm 
Secondly, I was born there so double watch it, okay? I've also spent a lot of my working life in different parts of Wales and, I'm proud to say, had sex with plenty of the women there. I fell in love with one of then and she was a ginger.
Thirdly, I was born in the worst bit of Wales I've ever been to: Holyhead. Like most port towns, they have their problems with the drugs and the unemployment but it's still not that bad. The other really shit bit of Wales is near Caerphilly - Merthyr Tydfil. Despite having a rotten reputation in them parts it's not as bad as areas of Britain. Not by a long way. And yes, Luton, it's you I'm speaking to.
(Where are we up to, ah four)
Fourthly, Anglesey has been fundamentally altered by the English holiday-homers and day-trippers from Cheshire and Manc. No question about that. But is it spoiled? Well it's a nice place away from the cities and money comes into the area so I don't really know. It's not proper Wales anyway. Proper Welsh don't drive Range Rovers.
Fifthly, it's impossible to generalise about Wales. The diversity that they over such a small area and relatively small population is unparalleled anywhere that I've ever been. And yet, somehow, they manage to be Welsh wherever you go.
Sixthly, Cardiff is one of the best nights out in the world. Newport, sadly, is not.
I've never met a Welshman I don't genuinely like and, again, I can't say that about anywhere else I've been in the world.
So big up Wales and the Welsh. I've just decided to add Wales to my list of places to go this year. Actually it was there anyway as my best mate owns a big house near Abersoch and it's ages since I've been.