Cardiff - the Modern Tourist City.

CARDIFF CASTLE with open top sightseeing buses that you'd find in any big tourist destination.

Cardiff may have been built on the proceeds of coal (as was this second castle - the original is within the walls of this outer) but today it's a vibrant busy and great place to spend a few days. I should know, I worked here for eight years and so returning every now and then is rather like going home. 

APRIL - okay, mid March Fool's Day!

Only one or two of you sussed or expressed any inkling that I made up almost all of the Welsh "words" in yesterday's. I don't speak any Welsh, nor do the vast majority of the south Walians, it's mainly used in the north but all signs are (often humorously) in both English and in Welsh. On the train over was a young guy who I got talking to who is helping Team Wales go to Rio for the Olympics - on his polo shirt it said that his academy was funded by the 'Loteri'!

One or two words that I used were real though, hence the translation that some of you went to the lengths of going through, as was the title 'Welcome to Cardiff' and at that the very end. 

My apologies but to be honest I was laughing my walking socks off when the comments finally came in. One or two of you now want to whip me senseless with a leek (more Welsh stereotypes) but as the Severn Tunnel has signalling problems only allowing half the usual numbers of trains through, my train was cancelled, I got a refund and can get another back when the weather gets bad again! 

Hwyl fawr am y tro! (Goodbye for now!) 

(I had to look that one up)