Formerly a top male model in the Far East, Dave Wooding runs a beach cafe, while his wife Vanessa has Babi Bach, a children's clothes shop.

They're doing their best to become a part of the community and not exacerbate the dilution of Welsh cultural life.

The Hookes family have their roots in the area and run the Manana restaurant, but its popularity at holiday times does not guarantee financial security and they're trying to extend the season.

Despite the difficulties - the rising cost of homes being one of the biggest - Lee Hookes, who has travelled the world surfing, says there's no better place to be than Abersoch.

THE DRAGON'S TAIL: Tuesday, 3 April , BBC Two Wales, 7.30pm
In the last episode the cameras follow Llŷn Peninsula-born artist Emrys Parry on a pilgrimage of exploration, inspiration and contemplation.

Having left Llŷn at 17 years old to study art in London, he has lived away from the area ever since. But at 65 Emrys is now considering a return to the area he loves so much.

"I've considered coming back to live practically all of the time I've been away. But for all sorts of reasons it never seemed appropriate," he says.

The distance from his home in East Anglia may prove somewhat of a creative distance for his artistic abilities, but his need to return to his roots runs deep.

"This is the place that made me. And it still has the ability to move me. I like the journey home because it enables me to make the transformation. If I was parachuted from one to the other it might not be so easy for me to adjust.

"I do have a very good life in East Anglia - I'm in awe of the landscape. But it doesn't have that essential thing for me, a link with me - an umbilical link that I have with this landscape."

On this very personal journey the cameras follow Emrys as he walks the ancient pilgrimage route through Llŷn - tracing the footsteps his ancestors would have once also walked. He talks of how the area re-charges his creative batteries, feeding and stimulating his imagination and about the influence the landscapes have on his work.

And as viewers will see - what starts out as a journey to determine his future, soon turns into a journey into his past. So will the hiraeth for his homeland prove powerful enough to make him re-plant his roots firmly on north Wales soil?

Episode one