Cardiff Bay

Well we've been in cardiff for around a week now staying with Clive and Tino part of my family (for the Lowe followers), the weather was raining for the first few days but over the weekend the sun was out and shining andI even got sunburnt HA! The first day Clive took the day off and he drove us around town showing us where Kim and he used to live …

So originally I was just lookin for a couple day stop between warrington and London for a couple of nights. I decided to visit wales. I was interested in experiencing the welsh culture and wanted to visit this small country of great Britain. Here was my opportunity! I chose to Go to the capital of wales, Cardiff. After some research I found that it …

Big excitement today as we were off to Cardiff (in Wales) to see the Doctor Who experience!! Melanie pretended that she wasn't excited but despite her nonchalant manner I knew she was keen. We started the day with a Skype call to Grant, Sarah & Ben and it was lovely to see them and to catch up on some news. It was a lovely drive into Wales over …

So there are a few things I've realized that I've forgotten to mention in the blog. I've worn my Oilers hat a few times in London & no one recognized it, however while I was in Edinburgh castle 3 people stopped me & said "hey Oilers!". One was from Calgary, one was from Vancouver, and one was from Ontario. None of them actually were …

So.. the reason Jop and I were actually in Cardiff this weekend, is the fact that we see it on TV a lot. There's lots of of castles and picturesque towns, plus everything is really cheap there, so you can imagine that the British Broadcasting Corporation decided to move its entertainment section there a couple of years ago.

Basically.. we …

Cardiff , capitale du Pays de Galles un des 4 pays qui composent le Royaume Uni.
Ville de 330 000 habitants ,moins que Bristol par exemple, mais plus cosmopolite et à taille humaine.
Le mieux est d'utiliser un des Park and Ride : 3 livres par voiture et en 15mn de car l'on se retroue au centre ville.
2 quartiers : Le centre ville …

Wales, Cardiff - well we have been in Wales for 4 days, and the temperature has been about 12 to 13 degrees every day...it is freezing cold, wet and windy.....and to make matters worse Len and I both have colds.

So to bring you up to speed, we were in Radstock, and had been visiting Bath...our time came to move on, and we caught the …

... town and checked out their local market.  We sampled the welsh cake and saw lots of faggots (see picture). We moved on to Cardiff castle for a tour.  It was ... Well a castle with much history. We then went in search of the bay as once ...

... better walking drunks I have seen in a very very long time. The best part was it was only 11:00 AM in the morning. Beyond this Cardiff has only two true sights. One is a castle, which we didn't go to, as we were a little castled out. The second was ...

... . Had cod bites and chips for lunch from the chippy next to Nessa's amusement centre. Photo is from Whitmore Bay. Thought we would make our way into Cardiff early. Found the hostel, The River House, which is on the opposite bank of the Millenium Stadium. ...

... that in the next blog.  When we returned from the castle, we spent the rest of our time on the waterfront of Cardiff Bay, like the city center, this too had been revitalized recently.  There is a bit of dead space between the waterfront and ...

... are just amazed that even walking a block after dark in some places in Latin America is a venture best not undertaken.  Cardiff's awesome downtown like any others all across Europe is packed with people, shops, restaurants, bars, housing, ...

... 4 nights. I'm currently staying with Marc's Nanna's Sister for the week, a lovely house tucked away 15 minutes from the Centre of Cardiff. The Millenium Stadium strikes you when you first visit the city (FA Cup Final venue, Rugby World Cup etc) .. so ...

... pies in a very Welsh pub.  After lunch we needed to walk off our meals so again ignored the waether and walked down to Cardiff Bay which is a nice foreshore area that would have been very nice on a sunny day but on a windy, drizzly day had limited ...

... .. anyway that's my collectable from that stadium! .. I gather not many of these will be around in circulation :) The town centre of Cardiff is very pretty, very old and the people and all pretty nice. However i'm not sure if I mentioned it before or not ...

Got up early this morning (9.30am). Walked to the bus stop and caught the bus to Swansea. As I walked to the bay to catch the bus to Cardiff it drove off!! So I had an half an hour wait until the next one. Once the bus arrived I found a seat and had a ...

... the Cincinnati Bengals third-choice wide receiver, Lebron James, Brett Favre (shouldn’t have come back Brett) and whether the Tampa Bay Rays can stay the distance in the AL East title race (personally, I’m praying for a late collapse by them ...