Quotes:
"Do you know where Wales is? Most people in the world have no idea. It is a peninsula standing at the heart of the British Isles, on the western flank of England facing Ireland."
-- A Writer's House in Wales
Jan Morris

"Sometimes Wales looked like another country, and at other times it seemed like an earlier version of England - upright and antique and dusty and churchgoing, with all the color schemes wrong."
-- The Kingdom by the Sea
Paul Theroux

"I sat silent and melancholy, till looking from the window I caught sight of a long line of hills, which I guessed to be the Welsh hills...which sight causing me to remember that I was bound for Wales, the land of the bard, made me cast all gloomy thoughts aside and glow with all the Welsh enthusiasm with which I glowed when I first started in the direction of Wales."
-- Wild Wales
George Barrow

"'Walking, signore?' 'Yes,' said I; 'I always walk in Wales.'"
-- Wild Wales
George Borrow