Americans were asking 'Is Wales is a country?'
Kieren Windsor, who launched Wales Guidebook online at walesguidebook.com over the summer saw a 581 per cent surge in traffic to his site after Wales kicked off their campaign against the USA.
Internet surfers found a lot of answers on Kieren's blog, which provides a quirky but comprehensive guide to the Land of His Fathers and aims to turn up the gems hidden among the best-known holiday hotspots. On top of that there have been at least eight US Presidents with Welsh ancestry, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
"However, there has been a surge in readers from the United States with almost 75 per cent of those reading my ‘Is Wales a Country’ article being Americans. "It's great that people are taking an interest in Wales and are going to the trouble to find out more about it.
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