Cardiff

We arrived in Cardiff by train, just before midnight on Friday evening. Back at Bren and Sarah’s apartment we chatted for a while before calling it a night.

Saturday we slept in and took it very easy. Christine is still unwell, so a bit of rest out of London will hopefully do her some good. Originally we had hoped to go to the rugby on Saturday, Italy is in town playing Wales. We never organized tickets, so instead the four of us headed to the local pub for the 2pm game. A few pints and plates of potato wedges later, Wales had won the match which we half watched. A few more drinks and we headed back home for dinner.
Dinner was Spag Bol, mmm, washed down with cold VB’s which Brendan had in the fridge and Absinthe shots, that stuff knocks you around!

Sunday we were a bit more adventurous, after a massive cooked breakfast we jumped in to Sarah’s car and headed out on a mini road trip. Leaving Cardiff we drove through the country side to Castell Coch. As our tour guide Sarah informed us, the castle is a fairytale castle just out of Cardiff, up on a hill. She had never been there before either, so we were all quite excited!

Our drive then took us past the power station and airport, two parts of Wales not to be missed! This was on our way to Porthcawl, a small beach town. Sadly as we arrived the weather was turning an all to familiar grey and rainy. We still walked around for a while, and the foreshore reminded us of some of the beaches in USA. It was like a giant amusement park, rides, slot machines, fast food chains and markets.

We headed back to Cardiff to cook a big Sunday roast for dinner.
Damien tried his best to help but kept getting kicked out of the kitchen… Sarah cooked an amazing chicken roast with homemade York puddings and 9 different vegetables! After a huge feed we headed back to the train station to catch our ride back to London.

We haven’t had to do anything this weekend, we have been waited on all weekend, which was so nice, I think we will have to come back sometime. Thanks guys for a great weekend!