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[Doctor Gollum]

Dónde estás? or translated
Where art thee?

Estoy en Gran Canaria

Muy agradable también, buenas fiestas

In rural Andalucia , the old boys speak Andalus dialect with many unique words unintelligible to most folk including proper Spanish speakers. One key feature is that they do not pronounce the letter S . Big problem if your English name begins with an S! The funniest word is Wicky (whiskey)

Gracias Senor V. Está calentando muy bien...

[Lizzie Zoom]

Coming from the South, it is so refreshing when I go North to hear the different Northern accents. I love them, and (this will upset some in the South) I have found, away from the cities at least, everyone is prepared to just talk and pass the time of day and I can try and identify where they are from.  There is no "I am not here; do not talk to me" stance either as you find down South.

Here so many (not all!) keep there heads down and hope you don't start speaking to them.  And before anyone suggests it, no, it is not me, but so many people I know say the same.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I have no trouble understanding any dialect, including Geordie and Glaswegian. Well......maybe, sometimes, a rushed, Northern Irish one gets me...a bit.

Waddyameangetsyaareyoozetakinthepissoutathewaywespeak,Ithinkyearesoyeareandthatsnotfunnysoitisnt. Sentence to be completed in no more than 1.3seconds. 

[Mister Rog]

Coming from the South, it is so refreshing when I go North to hear the different Northern accents. I love them, and (this will upset some in the South) I have found, away from the cities at least, everyone is prepared to just talk and pass the time of day and I can try and identify where they are from.  There is no "I am not here; do not talk to me" stance either as you find down South.

Here so many (not all!) keep there heads down and hope you don't start speaking to them.  And before anyone suggests it, no, it is not me, but so many people I know say the same.

I moved from London to Wales about 3 years ago. I know more people down here after three years than I did in London after 40+ years. People talk to each other.   

In London if a car hoots, it's assumed that a driver is 'aving a go at someone. Down here, it's because the driver has seen someone they know and is saying "hello". This took some getting used to 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Coming from the South, it is so refreshing when I go North to hear the different Northern accents. I love them, and (this will upset some in the South) I have found, away from the cities at least, everyone is prepared to just talk and pass the time of day and I can try and identify where they are from.  There is no "I am not here; do not talk to me" stance either as you find down South.

Here so many (not all!) keep there heads down and hope you don't start speaking to them.  And before anyone suggests it, no, it is not me, but so many people I know say the same.

I moved from London to Wales about 3 years ago. I know more people down here after three years than I did in London after 40+ years. People talk to each other.   

In London if a car hoots, it's assumed that a driver is 'aving a go at someone. Down here, it's because the driver has seen someone they know and is saying "hello". This took some getting used to 

Yet again I spent two weeks up in Yorkshire last year. As I have always found, I as well got to know so many people who a few minutes before had been strangers.  They told me their life stories, what family they had, where they lived; everything!  As you say you can live in London for 40+ years and hardly know a soul.  Up North, and in your case Wales,  you can spend 40 minutes sitting somewhere and know someone straight away.  If I could, and it was practical, I would move to Yorkshire / Lancashire in a heart beat!

[Bigron]

I went to Ireland for an Easter break a few years back, when things were less settled than now and of course I was full of trepidation. I stayed in Blackwater, towards the south-east.
I need not have worried, the people were amazingly friendly, waving and smiling as soon as they recognised my GB number plates on the car!
I did have trouble understanding much of what they said, especially when they spoke quickly - when don't they?
The only issue was when I said to a colleague that I was planning on visiting Dublin: she suggested parking in Bray and taking the train - the "rattler" - in to Dublin if I wanted any car left to come back to!
As it happened, I loved the train journey, all along the beautiful east coast (cheap tickets, too) and Dublin itself was just MAD! Unbelievable - but I just cannot take to Guiness!

Ron.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Im Northern, from the proper northern parts of Lancashire...... not them namby pamby Yorkshire folks.... they only think they're northern....

You Southern poof!

[Lincs Robert]

Coming from the South, it is so refreshing when I go North to hear the different Northern accents. I love them, and (this will upset some in the South) I have found, away from the cities at least, everyone is prepared to just talk and pass the time of day and I can try and identify where they are from.  There is no "I am not here; do not talk to me" stance either as you find down South.

Here so many (not all!) keep there heads down and hope you don't start speaking to them.  And before anyone suggests it, no, it is not me, but so many people I know say the same.

I moved from London to Wales about 3 years ago. I know more people down here after three years than I did in London after 40+ years. People talk to each other.   

In London if a car hoots, it's assumed that a driver is 'aving a go at someone. Down here, it's because the driver has seen someone they know and is saying "hello". This took some getting used to 

Yet again I spent two weeks up in Yorkshire last year. As I have always found, I as well got to know so many people who a few minutes before had been strangers.  They told me their life stories, what family they had, where they lived; everything!  As you say you can live in London for 40+ years and hardly know a soul.  Up North, and in your case Wales,  you can spend 40 minutes sitting somewhere and know someone straight away.  If I could, and it was practical, I would move to Yorkshire / Lancashire in a heart beat!

Lincs Robert isn't from Lincolnshire, but moved here 8 years ago after 22 years in leafy Bucks commuter land. So, I know exactly what you mean Lizzy ....

[STEMO]

I've only been to Buckinghamshire once. To appear at Beaconsfield magistrates court for being naughty on the M40. Very leafy, very quiet.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I've only been to Buckinghamshire once. To appear at Beaconsfield magistrates court for being naughty on the M40. Very leafy, very quiet.

..................and very, very expensive!!

[Lincs Robert]

I've only been to Buckinghamshire once. To appear at Beaconsfield magistrates court for being naughty on the M40. Very leafy, very quiet.

..................and very, very expensive!!

Expensive for STEMO or houses, or both?

We were only about 5 miles from Beaconsfield, so more of the same really. They have an excellent model village there.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I've only been to Buckinghamshire once. To appear at Beaconsfield magistrates court for being naughty on the M40. Very leafy, very quiet.

..................and very, very expensive!!

Expensive for STEMO or houses, or both?

We were only about 5 miles from Beaconsfield, so more of the same really. They have an excellent model village there.

I knew Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross back in the early 1990's, and the house prices then made me shudder.  Talk about THE place to live to the West of London! 

[ronnyd]

Coming from the South, it is so refreshing when I go North to hear the different Northern accents. I love them, and (this will upset some in the South) I have found, away from the cities at least, everyone is prepared to just talk and pass the time of day and I can try and identify where they are from.  There is no "I am not here; do not talk to me" stance either as you find down South.

Here so many (not all!) keep there heads down and hope you don't start speaking to them.  And before anyone suggests it, no, it is not me, but so many people I know say the same.

Quite agree Lizzie, the estate i live on has quite a number of said individuals, now i don,t even try, 

[TheBoy]

I've only been to Buckinghamshire once. To appear at Beaconsfield magistrates court for being naughty on the M40. Very leafy, very quiet.

When I was on the tools, I used to hate being sent their, full or arrogant "new money" tossers.

As LR says, Beaconscot is worth a visit if you like model villages

[Mister Rog]

 . . . . . .  If I could, and it was practical, I would move to Yorkshire / Lancashire in a heart beat!

I'm not sure it's a good idea to use "Yorkshire" and "Lancashire" in the same sentence