Blogs from Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 8

Here comes another entry because I've just returned from another trip. On June 7th once classes finished I set out for Nottingham, England to visit friends. I had visited them back in October but wanted to see them once more before heading back to Canada. The plan was to spend time there until June 13th, then set off for London and meet up with a friend and fly to Italy with her on the 14th. It was a great week in Nottingham. The friends I visited are family friends and they wanted me to have the opportunity to see England with my aunt so they flew her over from Canada! Pretty awesome. We spent the week getting together with friends and family, seeing the birthplace of DH Lawrence, shopping, going to the horse races, seeing a ... read more

29 May Update Today we walked for 6 hours (in light drizzle) exploring the inner areas of Cardiff including Cardiff Castle. http://www.cardiffcastle.com/content.asp The furnishings and interior design within the latter built parts of the castle are both interesting and eccentric. The interior designer had travelled to Australia with Charlie Darwin apparently hence there are some carvings on some of the bookshelves showing our Platypus. The shopping precincts within Cardiff are impressive and there is an interesting mix of both old and modern architecture with old arcades snaking their way between pedestrian malls. It all works very well. The town managers have done well to exclude a large chunk of the inner city to vehicles. Later on in the day we wandered down to the bay area where there was sooo much more to see and do, ... read more

HIYA Not quite sure where to start today. We have had a wonderful few days with Stu and Helen in Portsmouth (Chris' Cousin). Lots of "chill out" time for Chris and I as the schedule has been quite hectic. Stu and Helen are also fantastic friends of ours and we feel very much at home with them so chilling is easy. Last Friday on our way to Leighton Buzzard (Jo and Grahams) we called in as a surprise to Chris' Grandma's house at Telford near Birmingham, but unfortunately she was not home so we left flowers and a card. Chris' Grandma is 93 years old. We were very disappointed not quite sure we would get back to see her and headed down to Portsmouth. During our quiet stay in Portsmouth we discussed that maybe Chris should ... read more

Tuesday the 15th of March was my final day of work in Port Talbot, after the brisk handshakes and goodbyes, I rushed out in a huff at 4pm, only to forget some very important travel documents on my soon to be ex-desk, which came to mind as I was flying down the M4 back to Cardiff, after a swift back-track I was home 45 minutes late to be told I had missed the polish guy on his miniature motorcycle who had been waiting to retrieve my company car. Time to start packing! The moving company were arriving at 8.30am the next morning and I hadn’t so much as made up a box yet. As I got to work on the packing, a Storm started brewing about the last minute nature that I was attending to my ... read more

a couple of weekends ago, annie luke and i spent a weekend in Cardiff - one of the main reasons was to go to Barry, where Gavin and Stacey is filmed! a lot of the pictures will mean nothing to you if you don't watch the show but i was very excited as it's one of my faves! it wasn't the most inspiring of cities, and i love a good castle but this one was pretty lame... but at least now i can tick wales off my list of places to go, next time i'll definitely go to the north, apparently it's a lot more gorgeous!... read more