E: 25/06 Three-night break in Paris

Etch

Sunday Times Where Was I? competition
The competition starts on Sunday and ends on Wednesday

The prize: a luxurious three-night break in Paris as guests of Hôtel Warwick Champs-Elysées and Eurostar. The winners will stay for three nights, B&B, at the Warwick Champs-Elysées, which is within easy striking distance of the Jardin des Tuileries, the Louvre and the shops of Rue St Honoré. The hotel’s restaurant, the “W”, serves innovative French cuisine. For more information, call 00 800 4634 4100 or visit www.warwickhotels.com.

The prize also includes return Eurostar rail travel, in Leisure Select class, from St Pancras, Ebbsfleet or Ashford. The fastest journey time between the two capitals is now just 2 hours 15 minutes. Return tickets start at £59 in standard class and £139 in Leisure Select. For more details, or to book a ticket, visit www.eurostar.com or call 0870 518 6186.

The prize must be taken before December 1, 2008, excluding September and public holidays, and is subject to availability.

Answers:

1 What was the poet's real name? Ellis Humphrey Evans

2 What is the name of the preserved railway? Ffestiniog Railway

Answers to other clues:

The Roman practice work, fort and amphitheatre are at Tomen y Mur.
Llyn Trawsfynydd is the lake that cooled the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station.
The surrounding area was fashioned by Dame Sylvia Crowe.
Maentwrog is the burial place of Edmund Prys, the archdeacon born in 1544.

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Etch wrote: »

1 What was the poet's real name? Ellis Humphrey Evans

known throughout the Welsh speaking community by his bardic name Hedd Wyn.

Nothing to do with the comp but we went on a tour of the Ypres war museum and as you go in you take a small card with a name on and then can read about that person at various points as you walk around. Total coincidence - ours read "Hedd Wyn"!! All the Welsh contingent from the tour went to the desk, handed their cards back and all asked for Hedd Wyn. The chap was totally bemused - don't think it had ever happened before.