December 17, 2012
Ah, the wonders of winters in Wales. There is a hazard of living on Woodville Road, which I did for a bit in the house behind the signpost actually, in that the pavements get flooded to a couple of inches deep in some bits. Hooray for waterproof boots! Also, a bonus halls - Hodge Hall - in the background of the picture.
November 8, 2012
I met this guy in the City Centre and he was totally serious about the whole aliens thing and was warning people to watch out for them. I warned him about the dangers of the Rift here in Cardiff in turn. Also, he had no lenses in his glasses.
September 21, 2012
Someone had too much time on their hands. I think that this may be one of the more hazardous bits of… graffitti? I’ve seen because it made me stop and giggle in the middle of the road for a few seconds.
September 11, 2012
#fuqdapopo #police #popo lmao only in #cardiff #drunk (Taken with Instagram)
September 8, 2012
I love the fact that Cardiff is a place where you can see a guy playing a violin on a tightrope and nobody’s even that curious. Admittedly, this guy was one of the more unusual buskers I’ve ever seen in the city centre. He was very good at playing the violin though.
August 26, 2012
The Welsh Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) The oldest recorded use of the dragon to symbolise Wales is from the Historia Brittonum, written around 829 AD, but it is popularly supposed to have been the battle standard of King Arthur and other ancient Celtic leaders. In the Mabinogion story Lludd and Llefelys, the red dragon fights with an invading White Dragon . His pained shrieks cause women to miscarry, animals to perish and plants to become barren. Lludd, king of Britain, goes to his wise brother Llefelys in France. Llefelys tells him to dig a pit in the centre of Britain, fill it with mead, and cover it with cloth. Lludd does this, and the dragons drink the mead and fall asleep. Lludd imprisons them, still wrapped in their cloth, in Dinas Emrys, Snowdonia.
(Source: naturemetaltolkien)
August 20, 2012
More halls! This one is Aberdare Hall, the prettiest, oldest and only all-girls hall that Cardiff University has. They’re currently refurbishing the rooms inside but some still look like the old dorm halls you’d imagine from historical novels and stuff. Also, there’s tons of old paintings and furniture hanging around especially in the dining hall which is much loved for its cooked breakfasts and not-so-much-loved for its university refectory dinners. The music library also lives here. Out of all the halls I’ve stayed in or nearly done so (Gordon Hall, Aberdare Hall, Talybont North and now Senghennydd Court) it is my favourite. Partly because it is just so pretty.
July 21, 2012
Oh fine, I suppose I should give a mention to the fact that Britain has the Olympics going on pretty soon and that Cardiff has the dubious honour of having football matches going there because of it. These rings are in the park bit in front of the Town Hall and were put up ages ago so that they’d be present for when the torch relay ran past. I don’t know how long they’ll be there for but I imagine that they’ll disappear some point after August.
July 14, 2012
The Armadillo (officially known as the Wales Millennium Centre) in Cardiff Bay. It’s made up of shiny copper plating and like half a dozen different kinds of Welsh slate in all different colours. The bit on the front says ‘In these stones horizons sing’ in both English and Welsh.
Fun Fact: The font for the writing comes from the Roman tombstones at Caerleon Museum, which were originally found in the nearby Roman fortress, Isca. The architect for the Millennium Centre spent weeks at the museum copying the letters to do this. (Wait, sudden sense of deja vu - have I reblogged this before?)
I did not know this but this makes that building even more scholarly awesome than it already is. I’m reblogging this because everybody should know about the fun font fact.
July 13, 2012
The Armadillo (officially known as the Wales Millennium Centre) in Cardiff Bay. It’s made up of shiny copper plating and like half a dozen different kinds of Welsh slate in all different colours. The bit on the front says ‘In these stones horizons sing’ in both English and Welsh.
