Duffy: Girl From the North Country

August 1, 2008 – The drive from Cardiff to Nefyn, a remote fishing village on north Wales' Llyn Peninsula, is only about 160 miles, but it takes me nearly seven hours. Squinting through nonstop rain, muttering at itinerant sheep, and stifling long-ingrained right-side-of-the-road steering impulses, I fret over ominous-sounding traffic signs I can't read (arwyddion rhan amser?) and take a few desperate gulps of instant petrol-station coffee. …
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