If you can tangle your tongue in appropriate fashion to pronounce Pwllheli properly, we say congratulations. For you’ll have used a noise not around in English, the impressive sounding voiceless alveolar lateral fricative – try saying that (and Pwllheli again) after a few bevvies round the fire at a Pwllheli campsite.
And if you’re camping in Pwllheli you’ll be at the biggest settlement on the very impressive looking Llyn Peninsula, the finger of land pointing from north Wales into the Irish Sea – try saying that too after a bevvy. Much of this is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and conveniently joins up with the lush looking Llyn Coastal Path to have hikes from Pwllheli to Abersoch in one direction and Pwllheli to Criccieth and on to Porthmadog in the other. (If that’s just not enough walking, the Llyn Coastal Path merges with the 870-mile Wales Coast Path at Caernarfon to the north.)
More restfully, Pwllheli has two beaches, a properly busy open-air market on Wednesdays and Sundays, and a marina to watch the world go by and practise your pronunciation of Welsh town names.
