Cardiff Bay

[poliphilo]

We've been in Cardiff for the past two nights. Why Cardiff? Well, the Travel Lodge was offering us a rate of £15 per night provided we booked long enough in advance and- from glimpses of it in Dr Who and Torchwood- we'd gathered that the new Cardiff Bay development is really handsome. It is. And exciting. Even on a wet Sunday afternoon with nobody much about it feels like a place where things are going on.

But they certainly have weather in South Wales. I've been reading Peter Finch's Real Cardiff- a sort of a guide book cum memoir of bohemian life cum essay in psycho-geography. It's very good. One thing he leaves you in no doubt about is the essential dampness of the city.  While we were there we got hit by shower after shower.  I've never seen so many rainbows in my life. 

Comments

[goddlefrood.livejournal.com]

It's changed a bit since I was last there by the looks of it. We used to go across to Cardiff infrequently (or at least I think we did) when we lived in Bristol. I left Bristol when I was 7, so could be wrong. I do recognise it from Doctor Who. I've only seen the first new series with Chris Eccleston so far, but will track down the other series eventually. One of the pirates out here's bound to have it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The show that really features the Bay is Torchwood (the Torchwood HQ is supposedly located under the square in front of the Millennium Hall). Unfortunately Torchwood is crap.

[goddlefrood.livejournal.com]

There was an episode in the first series, iirc, that featured something that looked suspiciously like the building with the clock featured in one of your photos. Torchwood had received some praise in certain quarters; I'll have no chance to see if it's a load of balls for a while. I expect it would be, like so many spin offs.