In May 1865, over 150 people from all over Wales decided to set sail from Liverpool to Argentina on a tea-clipper boat to start a new life and protect Welsh culture
A TikToker was left gobsmacked after they stumbled across a town in South America 7,500 miles away from Wales where everyone speaks Welsh. Emmy, who is a content creator on the social media platform alongside her partner Simon, on their shared account 'That Weird Couple' visited the town of Gaiman in Patagonia, Argentina, Wales Online reports.
and language as they feared the country was losing its identity to England. The lengthy journey took around eight weeks with the first settlers arriving at a port which is now known as Puerto Madryn. During the clip, the TikToker explained: "We are in a town in Argentina that speaks Welsh. So they came and settled here hundreds of years ago and 153 people came on a ship that took two months to come from Liverpool and they were all Welsh.
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