The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail: Travels to the Weirder Reaches of Wales

Byron Rogers’ Wales is not the stereotypical nation of rugby heroes, eisteddfods and coal mining. His travels take him to an altogether stranger and more magical country. He pieces together the story of Kaiser Wilhelm’s sojourn in a Welsh spa town before the Great War, and tours the Welsh waxwork museum largely populated with effigies of Prince Philip discarded by Madame Tussaud’s. He also tells the true story of how a project to ensure the survival of the Welsh language came to involve the tr…