0:00:04 > 0:00:06Jutting majestically into the Irish Sea,
0:00:06 > 0:00:09on the tip of the north west Wales coast,
0:00:09 > 0:00:12Pen Llyn, the Llyn Peninsula.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17Attracting thousands of visitors every year,
0:00:17 > 0:00:20families have been coming for generations to enjoy
0:00:20 > 0:00:22its unspoilt landscape.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25So, how long do you think we've been coming here now?
0:00:25 > 0:00:28- 40 years?- 40 years, something like that, yeah.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32But there's also another Llyn not all the visitors get to know...
0:00:34 > 0:00:36..a stronghold of Welsh culture and language.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40They ask you, "What, do you speak it every day?"
0:00:40 > 0:00:42I think, this is our language, this is what we speak,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44this is who we are, you know?
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Where old traditions are still part of life.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Welsh is the Welsh bit of Wales there ever has been.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55In this series we follow the lives of the people who call Pen Llyn home
0:00:55 > 0:01:00and reveal what it means to try and guard the Welsh way of life
0:01:00 > 0:01:01through the changing seasons.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Can they try and make a living, and safeguard a culture,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09in one of Wales's truly Welsh heartlands?
0:01:18 > 0:01:222014 saw a bumper summer on Pen Llyn,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26with record numbers of visitors flocking to the beaches.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30For local businesses it's been a very busy year.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Boatman Colin Evans has ferried hundreds of visitors over to Bardsey,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36whilst on dry land, Stuart Webley has pulled
0:01:36 > 0:01:39thousands of pints at the Ty Coch pub.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Inland at Berth Aur Farm,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46the Williams family have sold nearly 2,000 lambs.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50But it's not this busy all year round.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00Autumn in Pen Llyn, and only a trickle of tourists remain.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04But as winter approaches, what do the locals get up to?
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I wonder what they do in the winter.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10I don't know, go to sleep I think, for the winter.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- Play bridge.- Play bridge, yes.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16But on Llyn, there's still work to be done.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20It's the time of year to start putting things away.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23On Nefyn beach, the sun is still shining
0:02:23 > 0:02:27as Chris Dobson starts the annual task of dismantling the beach huts.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Just the one person who owns this.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35It is a private shed that belongs to someone.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37They haven't used it, only two days here.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I think it's worse taking them down.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51At the Ty Coch pub, Porthdinllaen, landlord Stuart Webley
0:02:51 > 0:02:54starts getting used to a more relaxing routine.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00It's the polar opposite to what it was like the last time we saw you.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02You know, you see, last time you were here,
0:03:02 > 0:03:05there were 1,000 people on the beach and now there's me - one.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10The beaches and campsites are almost empty
0:03:10 > 0:03:13and, for caravan park warden Eifion Roberts,
0:03:13 > 0:03:17it's now time for the people of Llyn to rediscover their own back yard.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20It can be so busy in the season,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24whereas we do get the place all back to ourselves in the winter.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29I think it's absolutely brilliant that I get to come here every day.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Every day I come through this little gap and I just go, wow!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38It really does something for the soul.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45Whilst life in some parts of Llyn is dictated by the tourist season,
0:03:45 > 0:03:48in other parts, away from sightseers' eyes,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51life goes on as it has done for generations.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Glyn Roberts lives in Pen Cefn Fawr Farm,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02deep in the heart of rural Llyn.
0:04:02 > 0:04:08Born on the farm in 1922, Glyn has lived here for 92 years.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10I've been bombed
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I've been machine-gunned,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16all sorts of efforts at killing me, but I'm still alive!
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Glyn lives at the farm with wife Ebrillwen
0:04:21 > 0:04:25and their only son, Heddwel, where one meal time tradition,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29passed down through the generations, still continues.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33I've been eating pennywort for about, well,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35well over 60 years.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40When I used to go out I used to pick the pennywort...
0:04:41 > 0:04:44..straightaway on the wall
0:04:44 > 0:04:48and eat them fresh from the walls.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50THEY SPEAK WELSH
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Pen Llyn was a long distance from everywhere...
0:05:00 > 0:05:03..so the people had to find something
0:05:03 > 0:05:06that they could use themselves,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08or they would all die.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15And what they used, of course, was the things they grew here,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19and they found out, trying and testing, you see.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26When I was a young boy we knew everyone.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33But now I know only very few of the people there.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36The whole peninsula has changed.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40THEY SPEAK WELSH
0:05:42 > 0:05:45And change is also something that Heddwel, Glyn's son,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47has had to face.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Pen Cefn Fawr used to be a 500-acre farm,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53but, with two thirds of the land now rented out to other farmers,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56it's now a smallholding.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59His father's age and health needs mean that Heddwel
0:05:59 > 0:06:03has had to come to a decision about farming and family.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09I was getting older and I had too much labour to contend with
0:06:09 > 0:06:14and I value my father's health.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19He has given me so much over the years
0:06:19 > 0:06:25and I wish him to be around for as much as possible.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31You begin to realise the value of the traditions
0:06:31 > 0:06:36that used to be on the peninsula and it's important
0:06:36 > 0:06:43that we do ask the older folk about how they lived in the past,
0:06:43 > 0:06:49what food they ate, before these traditions are lost.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Striking the right balance between tradition,
0:06:53 > 0:06:57culture and economy has always been a challenge on Llyn.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00In the 1950s the quarrying village of Nant Gwrtheyrn,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03emptied overnight after the quarry shut -
0:07:03 > 0:07:05a deserted village.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10Once a symbol of loss of community and culture, Nant Gwrtheyrn is now
0:07:10 > 0:07:13a thriving Welsh Language Centre, that offers hope for the future.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18And the latest recruit is on his way down to the Nant.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21This is the language of this area, of this nation.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24I'm from England, but I've moved to Wales, I've lived in Wales
0:07:24 > 0:07:29nearly half my life now and just personally I think it's really
0:07:29 > 0:07:32important to know the language of the nation you're living in.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38And Richard Wood is learning Welsh for a very particular purpose.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43As the newly appointed vicar of Bro Madryn, Richard is determined
0:07:43 > 0:07:45to use the everyday language of his congregation.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49I think it's important, because a lot of the stuff that
0:07:49 > 0:07:52I want to talk about with people is more than just
0:07:52 > 0:07:54whether we understand the words that we're using,
0:07:54 > 0:07:57and the kind of things that I want to talk about with people,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00things to do with faith, it really needs to be in your heart language.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05So I need to be able to be thinking in Welsh and thinking, speaking
0:08:05 > 0:08:09off-the-cuff in Welsh, that's really the target I want to get to.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12SHE SPEAKS WELSH
0:08:15 > 0:08:19And Richard's ambition is to conduct a church service in Welsh.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Whilst some are getting to know each other for the first time,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35over in Chwilog, chief hen Alaw Jones, soon to be Roberts,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37is keeping an old tradition alive,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40with the help of a few childhood friends.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43I'm getting married in three weeks and I thought,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45"Well, the best thing is going around Pen Llyn,"
0:08:45 > 0:08:48so I'm celebrating my hen night with the girls.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52I come from Pen Llyn and my partner also comes from Pen Llyn
0:08:52 > 0:08:54and we live there so I thought we might as well enjoy
0:08:54 > 0:08:57what's around us instead of going away, so...
0:08:57 > 0:09:01I think there's so many local pubs that you are not used to
0:09:01 > 0:09:04going to because they are so far away from each other,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07so I think when people get together it is the best, well,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11excuse, really, to go around them, enough time through the day,
0:09:11 > 0:09:15and enjoy places you don't see very often.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23As the girls hit the road, in Pwllheli, caravan park warden
0:09:23 > 0:09:27Eifion Roberts has swapped his red 4x4 for a motorbike.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30It's the weekly ride-out of the Llyn Bikers,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33today with an extra special guest!
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Morning! This is Ange, for the people that don't know Ange.- Hi!- Hi!
0:09:37 > 0:09:40She helped us out this year on the fundraiser and she has had
0:09:40 > 0:09:43a bit of a poorly spell so that's the reason for today,
0:09:43 > 0:09:44to take her out for a spin,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47so be kind, be gentle, but take the mick, yeah!
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Well, today's run is to say a little thank you...
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- HELMET CRASHES DOWN Oh!- Great start!
0:09:54 > 0:09:57You could say that.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Today's run WAS to say thank you!
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Sorry!- It will be all right.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Shall I take it?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Today's run is to raise money for my new helmet.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18This is my alter ego, this is what I like to do outside of work.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Beicwyr Llyn Bikers motorbike club are really what takes all my other time.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24They're an absolutely magnificent bunch of people.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27We do a charity run once a year
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and Angie's helped us out this year and the year before.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32She's had a spell of poor health herself, so we'd like to say
0:10:32 > 0:10:35thank you and take you for a little spin around today.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Where are they taking you, Angie?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Around Pen Llyn, down to Aberdaron and up that way,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43so it will be a good old spin. Looking forward to it.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Yes, good views.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Show off a bit of Pen Llyn as well, the beauty,
0:10:47 > 0:10:50hopefully the sun stays with us today.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51That would be an extra bonus.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00And autumn is always the best time for the Llyn Bikers' charity ride.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03With winter around the corner, and with fewer visitors about, there's
0:11:03 > 0:11:07more space to enjoy the views others come to see in the summer,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10whichever mode of transport you choose.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12HEN PARTY SING
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Autumn is the time to bring boats to sheltered waters,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22away from winter storms that lash Llyn's coastline.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27One man who makes a living from the sea is boatman Colin Evans,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30but his journeys to Bardsey have pretty much stopped
0:11:30 > 0:11:33now that the summer's gone.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36But winter suits Colin just fine.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37It is a different world in the winter.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42You get to see the real Pen Llyn in the winter.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46CAMERA WOMAN:
0:11:46 > 0:11:51It's an engine I've rebuilt, well, I'm rebuilding still.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58It is a tractor that I'm hoping to use just for ferrying stuff
0:11:58 > 0:12:00up and down to the boat.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04We've got to have the summer and I'm happy to see the summer come,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07but I always think the winter's a bit too short for me.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09I know that's not a common view.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15But, I'm happiest pottering around here with engines
0:12:15 > 0:12:17and fiddling like that.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22I'm not naturally sociable.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Like the old monks, I'm a bit of a recluse.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34And being holed up in his workshop means
0:12:34 > 0:12:38this reclusive entrepreneur's got a new project on the go.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41This is a man who's building a boat!
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Whoops-a-daisy.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49I'd be no good on these DIY programmes, you know the ones where
0:12:49 > 0:12:53people make things that fit together first time perfectly?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Colin is building a fibre glass mould,
0:12:56 > 0:12:59a prototype for a new design of boat that he hopes
0:12:59 > 0:13:03one day will ferry people over to Bardsey.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04It's a new design, it's not...
0:13:04 > 0:13:07I don't think there's anything quite like it in the world -
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- that- I- know of, anyway.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12It's been designed... It's got a few design features which,
0:13:12 > 0:13:14to my knowledge, have never been tried before.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19She should be better at load carrying, she won't bounce as much.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Normal catamarans, they bounce up and down in the waves
0:13:23 > 0:13:28and this should stop that, or certainly reduce it.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32It might work, in which case I've got a fair chance of selling it.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Or it might not work, in which case I'll look like a bloody idiot.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Do we have to go through... SHE QUACKS LIKE A DUCK
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- SHE LAUGHS - Pwllheli, I think.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Well, what if we get home and I start trying to roll my Ls...
0:13:58 > 0:14:00SHE QUACKS LIKE A DUCK
0:14:00 > 0:14:04- Pwllheli.- Pwllheli. I can't do it...however.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Whilst a few late visitors may still be getting to grips with pronouncing
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Pwllheli, for vicar Richard Wood, the Welsh he's learnt whilst
0:14:16 > 0:14:21at Nant Gwrtheyrn comes into good use as he goes about his daily life.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23THEY SPEAK WELSH
0:14:38 > 0:14:40SHE SPEAKS WELSH
0:14:40 > 0:14:41Sorry?
0:14:41 > 0:14:43What did you think of Nant Gwrtheyrn itself?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51CAMARA WOMAN:
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Most people do.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57But we are terrible, as Welsh people,
0:14:57 > 0:14:59we don't speak with our friends
0:14:59 > 0:15:02because it's quicker to do it in English,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04so I have a few friends that are learning
0:15:04 > 0:15:08and have done the courses and now when we go out socially
0:15:08 > 0:15:11we make an effort to speak Welsh to each other.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15It might take us a bit longer to have a conversation,
0:15:15 > 0:15:17but it works, you know?
0:15:17 > 0:15:20It is our own fault because we're going for an easier option
0:15:20 > 0:15:22and speaking English
0:15:22 > 0:15:26because we've all been raised from the grave really being bilingual.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44At Berth Aur Farm, it's been a busy year -
0:15:44 > 0:15:46and autumn is no different.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50For Robat Williams and son Dafydd, it's feeding time,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53with the silage gathered during summer.
0:15:53 > 0:15:59Well, farming in the autumn and in the winter, especially the autumn,
0:15:59 > 0:16:05it's just about repairing and taking repairs up.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08If you need a new gate somewhere, you go and hang that, or
0:16:08 > 0:16:12if you need a new fence, you go and fence it.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16It's also the end of the calving season.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19She's going to calve in a minute. Let's go there.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24She's more interested in eating now than calving anyway.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28She's been a very good cow, she's probably just given us
0:16:28 > 0:16:3112 cows, 12 calves. I would think so, she's very old anyway.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Over 70 calves are born each year at Berth Aur,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39and this birth needs a little extra help.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Thank God it's alive.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54That's the first thing, that's the first thing.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58When you see a calf that has got its head up, you think, "Oh,"
0:16:58 > 0:17:01it makes the job worthwhile, you know?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05But that's just the beginning, it's got to live two years before I get
0:17:05 > 0:17:09anything off it, so it's a fight for two years to keep it alive.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'll get it ready for market, you know?
0:17:11 > 0:17:15Whilst Robat and Dafydd keep things going at the cow shed,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18back at the farmhouse, Margiad is busy in a routine
0:17:18 > 0:17:20that's familiar no matter what the season.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Flipping heck, they've eaten the eggs! Look you, I've one left.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30They do what I do all year round -
0:17:30 > 0:17:32they carry food to feed people.
0:17:32 > 0:17:37They feed the cattle and the sheep and I feed the humans all year round,
0:17:37 > 0:17:41so they only do it for a couple of months, but I do it all year round.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46It's been a busy year on the farm in more ways than one.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48With the arrival of little Elgan,
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Margiad's now a grandmother for the very first time.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53THEY SPEAK WELSH
0:17:56 > 0:17:59Gwawr, and Margiad's eldest son, Tomos,
0:17:59 > 0:18:01are starting life on their own farm,
0:18:01 > 0:18:05but Margiad has mixed feelings about the future of farming on Llyn.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08A lot in Llyn, they have diversified
0:18:08 > 0:18:12and a lot are keeping visitors one way or the other -
0:18:12 > 0:18:16caravan sites or self catering or whatever,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20B&Bs as well, but I don't know.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22I'm a bit hesitant.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26And despite the thousands of seasonal holiday makers
0:18:26 > 0:18:30who boost the Llyn economy, Margiad has a very clear opinion
0:18:30 > 0:18:33on the effect of tourism and the way forward.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38People should try and find a better answer than tourism,
0:18:38 > 0:18:44cos, my view, we're being drowned here, language-wise anyway,
0:18:44 > 0:18:49with the incomers and I don't know how long that will last, you know,
0:18:49 > 0:18:52how long the Welsh language will last here.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Alaw's hen night is in full swing
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and everyone's joining in the colour code -
0:19:04 > 0:19:05to some extent, at least.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09- Yes.- Yes.- Just a little bit.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Just the nail varnish and the bracelet, that's about all,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15to be honest. Feeling a bit old.
0:19:15 > 0:19:16- Yes.- Yes.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19We're in the back of the bus, they are in the front.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21So we're in the back.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- We're having a good time.- Yes.- Yes.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25THEY SPEAK WELSH
0:19:31 > 0:19:34For this bride-to-be, Pen Llyn is where she'll celebrate
0:19:34 > 0:19:37her hen night and Pen Llyn is where she'll stay.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I would never want to leave -
0:19:39 > 0:19:42that's my opinion, but you get some,
0:19:42 > 0:19:46they want to see the world, they want to travel, experience
0:19:46 > 0:19:49different kinds, but they always come back to home in the end.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53If they are in their 30s, 40s or 50s,
0:19:53 > 0:19:56they will always come back to home and I think that's quite nice.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Out on a run with Llyn Bikers, pillion passenger Angela
0:20:05 > 0:20:08is one of those people who decided to come home.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13After living in London for five years, she's back in Llyn,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and seeing it with new eyes.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Standing here saying I've never been to Bardsey,
0:20:20 > 0:20:23and I'm quite ashamed to say.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Living so near and being on my own doorstep and I've never been there.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31I know I say, "I'll go next year, I'll go next year," every year comes
0:20:31 > 0:20:35and every year I still haven't been, and I'm quite ashamed to say it.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39And for Angela, today's journey is extra special.
0:20:39 > 0:20:44Basically I had 12 months of dialysis for kidney failure,
0:20:44 > 0:20:48and then three years ago I had a kidney transplant,
0:20:48 > 0:20:53so basically this has been an extra bonus for me today.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59When you see it like this, how beautiful it is,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01it just makes you appreciate it even more.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10And the beauty of Llyn's landscape is something that
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Heddwel Roberts at Pen Cefn Fawr Farm thinks that everyone -
0:21:14 > 0:21:17visitors and locals alike - should enjoy.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22We don't fully appreciate it. When the visitors do come,
0:21:22 > 0:21:26they appreciate it more than we do because we live here
0:21:26 > 0:21:30and we don't realise how fortunate we are, you know,
0:21:30 > 0:21:32that we are living in such a beautiful place.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34HE SPEAKS WELSH
0:21:42 > 0:21:44CAMERA WOMAN:
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Oh, my father is better.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Yes.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Yes, his legs are better, thank you.
0:21:57 > 0:22:03As you become older, you appreciate this life more.
0:22:03 > 0:22:09You see the best aspects of it
0:22:09 > 0:22:15and that it's a loving life.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19And wherever there's love, that special.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27No, no, I'm single. Yes.
0:22:33 > 0:22:38Well, I take every day as it comes.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Today is important, this day is important
0:22:41 > 0:22:47and do the best that you can for this day, today, now, this time.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50None of us knows the future.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00At St Cwyfan's Church in Tudweiliog,
0:23:00 > 0:23:04it's the moment of truth for vicar and Welsh-learner Richard Wood,
0:23:04 > 0:23:08who's about to take his first ever service in Welsh.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09CHILDREN SING
0:23:11 > 0:23:14I am feeling quite, quite nervous.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17We've been through what I'm going to be saying in Welsh
0:23:17 > 0:23:19a couple of times and I think I've got my head,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21although it's rapidly disappearing.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Can we just have five minutes? Thank you.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29On hand to help is his wife - and fluent Welsh speaker - Naomi.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32THEY WHISPER IN WELSH
0:23:43 > 0:23:45HE SPEAKS WELSH
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- I think that was OK. I didn't get too lost.- No, you didn't at all!
0:24:07 > 0:24:09- I was all right.- There was a few times I wanted to...
0:24:09 > 0:24:11- But you got there.- I got there.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15For Richard, a big hurdle has been successfully negotiated.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19But the Welsh language on Llyn faces tougher challenges.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22For Colin, the matters of language and economy go hand in hand.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26I think that for our language and culture, our way of life,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29business is going to be increasingly important,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32because I think it is the only way in which we can actually keep pace
0:24:32 > 0:24:34with the remainder of the world.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37If we've got to compete with those people with all kinds of firms
0:24:37 > 0:24:39that would like to buy holiday homes here,
0:24:39 > 0:24:41we've got to compete with those.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43If we can do that, then we can remain here
0:24:43 > 0:24:46and by definition it will mean that the local people
0:24:46 > 0:24:49are doing as well as they could be if they went away.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Preservation kills.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57It's the difference between preservation and conservation.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01I know a lot of people get confused - even conservationists do, I think.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05If you want to preserve something, it's like pickling it
0:25:05 > 0:25:08or stuffing it and putting it in a glass case, it's no good.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11It means it's dead.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Whereas if you conserve something,
0:25:13 > 0:25:16then you have got to accept that it's got to have to change
0:25:16 > 0:25:19and develop to a certain extent in order to stay alive.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28I might just move down here.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- Look, win the lottery and might just move down here.- Mmm.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Well, the people are certainly...
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- They are fantastic. - I've found them terrific.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Winter is one of the few times that Margiad Williams
0:25:39 > 0:25:42can get away from the demands of the farm.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47A time to reflect on landscape, people and a sense of belonging.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51We're only a field away from the yard and I come down as often
0:25:51 > 0:25:55as I can, especially if it's nice weather, like this.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00If you've got any problems, the sea sort of takes them out,
0:26:00 > 0:26:02you know, and then
0:26:02 > 0:26:05carries them back and drops them on the beach and, you know,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07you pick them up on your way home, sort of.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10It's a nice way of turning things in your mind
0:26:10 > 0:26:12and sorting them out, of course, yes.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17It's very beautiful, isn't it? You know.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21But it's people that makes places, really, you know.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25These headlands sticking out here, without names,
0:26:25 > 0:26:27they wouldn't mean a thing, would they?
0:26:27 > 0:26:31But the names that the people have given them -
0:26:31 > 0:26:33the Welsh, of course - have given these bits of...
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Porth Colmon, named after a saint from Ireland.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39This is Penrhyn Melyn
0:26:39 > 0:26:42I think it might be Perrin Melyn and that was
0:26:42 > 0:26:45one of the Celtic gods, you know, with the sun.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50And so they are special places then and they mean something.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55To me, without those Welsh names, it wouldn't mean the same,
0:26:55 > 0:26:57there wouldn't be the same thing, really.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59They wouldn't mean anything to me.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04All the people coming here to live, anyway,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08they should appreciate the language and the culture, otherwise,
0:27:08 > 0:27:15to be true, they're not getting anything back from Llyn, really,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18if they're not learning the language.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22If they don't know the names of places around here
0:27:22 > 0:27:24and they can't pronounce them
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and they don't know the meaning of them, you know,
0:27:26 > 0:27:30they're living a very superficial life and
0:27:30 > 0:27:35they are not getting anything back from this beautiful area, really.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Another year comes to a close on Llyn.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48Next spring, the tourist season will start all over again,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50and whilst the future may be uncertain
0:27:50 > 0:27:53for the culture and language of Pen Llyn,
0:27:53 > 0:27:56it's a future that the local people feel that they should help shape.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01I don't see them building skyscrapers in Morfa Nefyn,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04you know, I don't see it becoming the Costa Del Llyn.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Isn't it up to us to keep it real, like this?
0:28:08 > 0:28:12It's up to us now to keep the language going, really, isn't it?
0:28:12 > 0:28:14It is up to us, really.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19I think we've done bloody well to remain as long as we have,
0:28:19 > 0:28:21but the challenge is yet to come.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24But as the year draws to a close,
0:28:24 > 0:28:28for Chris Dobson, one thing's for certain.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Come next May, we'll start building beach huts again!