Llangollen landmarks mentioned in New Zealand newspaper

* Centuries-old Llantysilio Parish Church was the "best thing" a New Zealand travel writer saw.

Two well-known Llangollen landmarks get a strong mention in a travel story which has just appeared in a New Zealand national newspaper.   

Historic Llantysilio Parish Church and Llangollen Oggie Shop & Fine Foods in Castle Street are now hitting the headlines on the other side of the world.   

The piece in the Sunday Star-Times is written by Alistair Deverick, an Auckland-based recording artist, producer and session drummer who was in the UK on a three-week holiday based around a family wedding in Edinburgh.

* The writer's picture of the Oggie Shop which he reckons sold the "best thing" he ate.

He and his wife also took the opportunity to visit Wales where he has more family connections.

In his travel article he answers a question on the best thing he saw while in the UK and says: “Very powerful for me was visiting the Llantysilio Parish Church, built circa 1254, where my grandmother Eirlys Gwyneth Morris-Jones is buried, along with her parents Dorothy and Hugh (the town doctor for 40 years) and my mum’s namesake Ailsa, her aunt, who died when she was six from tuberculosis.”

* The piece was written by New Zealand musician Alistair Deverick.

And responding to a question on the best thing he ate, he writes: “Shout out to Llangollen Oggie Shop & Fine Foods in Llangollen! We ate some of its oggies, which are a type of pasty and my god!”

 

And the best souvenirs he bought while in the UK: “A big ugly Welsh dragon coffee cup that I drink from daily.”