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Cardiff hasn’t seen a White Christmas for a decade, but back in December 2010 the capital looked beautifully festive, with snow covering the streets and surrounding hills. Here’s 22 photos …
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Growing up in Cardiff – Britain’s wettest city – I’m very familiar with being endlessly pelted with rain, drizzle and thunderous downpours, and yesterday my home town delivered in full …
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Following on from Rob Masterman’s excellent archive photos of Cefn Onn, here’s another selection showing the now-closed station in December 2004 – exactly fifteen years ago.
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I’ve always been fascinated by Cefn Onn Halt, a tiny former station located at the southern end of the mile-long Caerphilly tunnel. Accessible only by foot – and some considerable …
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Once a hugely popular tourist destination, Barry Island’s glory days are long behind it, although it’s recently enjoyed some rather splendid improvements along the sea front. Incidentally, Barry Island (Ynys …
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Here’s another short selection of photos taken around Cardiff yesterday. It rained for the entire duration of my trip. Here’s some pictures taken on my travels:
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Once again, Cardiff lived up to its reputation as Britain’s wettest city, with my two days in the capital being accompanied by a near-incessant drizzle. Being Welsh, I’m used to the …
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The Golden Cross, a splendid Grade II listed public house, can be found at the junction of Customhouse Street and Hayes Bridge Road in Cardiff.
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According to the Met Office, Cardiff is Britain’s wettest city, registering 115cms of rainfall every year, and there was plenty of evidence to support that claim over the Christmas period. Here’s …
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Here’s a selection of photos taken around Cardiff Bay over the festive season. Despite raining for almost the entire duration of my Christmas visit (welcome home!), the sky thankfully cleared …
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Stocking a fine range of Welsh real ales from the independent Rhymney Beers brewery, the Andrew Buchan bar in Albany Road is one of my favourite pubs in Cardiff.
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Whenever there’s a big game on in the Welsh capital, a veritable army of street vendors swiftly wheel out their sports-branded merchandise in a burst of full-on opportunistic entrepreneurship that would …
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On Saturday, I was up in Cardiff for the launch of an exhibition showing original artwork from the Bluebird Jones football comic I was involved with from 1993-1995.
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I’m chuffed to be able to announce that an exhibition of original artwork from the Bluebird Jones football comics will be opening this Saturday, 17th October in Cardiff. The exhibition …
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This interesting sound installation forms part of the National Museum of Wales’ Fragile exhibition and invites the public to play songs that will be big enough to smash the clay covering …
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A march and rally is taking place in Cardiff this afternoon in protest at Israel playing in the UEFA Championship. The team face Wales in the Cardiff City stadium at …
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Here’s a selection of street scenes photographed during my short visit to Cardiff this week. My walk to the station took me along Queen Street – where’s there’s always something …
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A freshly launched South Wales bus company managed to disenfranchise and alienate a large chunk of their customer base with some truly dreadful sexist advertising.
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Readers of this blog will know that some time ago, I finally threw in the towel on my lifelong support of Cardiff City after one corporate rebrand too many. Happily, I found …
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