Tag: St Davids Day

2nd March 2015 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Racing on the Brunei River on St David’s Day

Sunday 1st March – St David’s Day – and I am taking part, with other Ambassadors, in an afternoon race with 7 other boats including one captained by His Majesty The Sultan. To bring luck to our team, we posed with the Welsh Flag, it being a little known fact that the Brunei crocodile’s only […]

1st March 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

by UK in North Macedonia

Dydd Hapus Gŵyl Dewi! – Happy St David’s Day

On Sunday 1 March along with Welsh citizens around the World, I will celebrate St David’s Day. Tradition has it that St David, or Dewi Saint in the Welsh language, died on this day in 569AD and from the 18th Century he was adopted as the Patron Saint of Wales, and the date celebrated as […]