{"id":463,"date":"2007-08-14T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/riviera-lloegr\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:56:12","slug":"riviera-lloegr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Riviera Lloegr \/ The English Riviera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" alt=\"A photo of Paignton beach and pier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/paignton.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in the county of Devon in the south west of England are marketed collectively by the local tourist board as &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishriviera.co.uk\/\">The English Riviera<\/a>&#8216;. Their website offers provides information in a number of languages &#8211; the usual suspects like French, German, Italian and Spanish, and also Dutch, Polish, Chinese and Japanese. Recently they&#8217;ve had part of the site translated into <a href=\"http:\/\/cym.englishriviera.co.uk\/\">Welsh<\/a> &#8211; a first for English holiday resorts, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/0200wales\/tm_headline=home-of-basil-fawlty-offers-welsh-welcome&#038;method=full&#038;objectid=19605261&#038;siteid=50082-name_page.html\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the English Riviera Tourist Board said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are a popular destination for visitors from Wales. The Welsh language should be used more on publicity like this in England. It is a UK language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The board&#8217;s director, who used to be in charge of tourism in Anglesey, doesn\u2019t speak Welsh herself, but has a fondness and commitment to preserving the language.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plans to provide downloadable MP3 walking tours for the area in Welsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in the county of Devon in the south west of England are marketed collectively by the local tourist board as &#8216;The English Riviera&#8216;. Their website offers provides information in a number of languages &#8211; the usual suspects like French, German, Italian and Spanish, and also Dutch, Polish, Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-travel","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}