Posted by Local Linda Owen, 58, told Mail Online how Llanberis suffers from its popularity, saying: ‘There’s growing anger among us Welsh speakers towards the English.
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if we went back to the days of holiday homes being burned down again.’
It’s a country that sees more than a million visitors flock to its mountains and beaches every year, but some villages in Wales feel harder hit than others when it comes to tourists.
Dubbed the ‘Magaluf of Wales’, Llanberis village has a permanent population of just 2,000 but locals claim they are under siege from disorderly English people and being priced out of their own homes.
Their defence came after a party of seven English women hikers said they would never return to Llanberis on the slopes of Mount Snowdon again after being snubbed in pubs and abused in the street for being English.But one local branded tourists a ‘nuisance’, claiming she has been pushed off the pavement and seen a shoe thrown at a woman by a drunk person.
Meanwhile, in Botwnnog village, plans for 18 new ‘affordable’ homes were put on hold as council committees warned English incomers could cause significant harm if they move to the area or use the property as an Airbnb.
Gwynedd county council’s planning committee rejected the application by a single vote, noting the ‘harmful’ impact on the language and the ‘lack of need’ for the properties.
In Llanberis, an angry resident told how she has become used to hearing locals speaking in Welsh, saying of English tourists: ‘I wish they’d just **** off’.
Other Welsh residents have been telling tourists to ‘ewch i ffwrdd’ – meaning ‘go away’.
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