After making the most of the complementary breakfast and checking out of our hotel we made our way to St Fagan's Museum of Welsh Life. the museum is situated in the ground of the 16th century St Fagans castle and it the 1940s it was donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth and opened as a museum a couple of years later. It contains buildings from around Wales that have been carefully pulled down and then reconstructed in the 100 acres of parkland. ...

This morning we jumped back onto the sightseeing bus and continued the circuit around from our hotel back past the castle and returned to Mermaid Quay (the waterfront area). Wales has a policy of bilingualism, as a way of preserving the Welsh language and culture. This means that signage on streets, shops and touist attractions are in both Welsh and English. Currently about 20% of the population are considered to be fluent Welsh speakers and the number is increa...

After breakfasting at our hotel, included in the price and very generously including cereal, fruit, eggs, cheese, toast, pastries...a huge suprise seeing a 'continental' normally implies toast and cornflakes, we left the hotel and strolled througgh the city to Cardiff Castle. With archeological evidence suggesting that the site has been fortified for over 2000 years Cardiff Castle covers some of the most significant events of British History. In the main it is a...

An early start for our long weekend in Cardiff (spelt Caerdydd in Welsh but pronounced the same). We had originally planned to take the train by owing to a threatened strike we had played it safe and booked the coach. The strike was called off when the train authorities went to the high court but we had already paid for the coach. During the 4 hour riden we were at the mercy of an ancient, skeletal driver with prison tatts who spent the entire trip chugging red ...