Cardiff, Carphilly and bird poo

Our first stop on our little trip to the South of England wasn't even in England but in Wales. Evan and Sarah, friends form Auckland, moved over to Cardiff around the same time we came to Scotland so we stayed with them for a few days.

On our 1st day we went for a walk around Cardiff city, which it was ok. There is a Castle in the middle of the city, where I found lots of animal statues, which I seem to take pictures of where ever we go.

We took a quick boat ride from the city around to the 'viaducty' harbor area of Cardiff, where the welsh MELLENIUM centre is, the one with the big copper roof.

and then Evan got pooed on by a bird

We were told there was a pretty cool castle and village a quick train ride from the city, so we headed out with there with Evan and a few others. The carphilly castle was one of the coolest castle we've seen so far. It had a big moat around it and some of the turrets were crumbling and falling over but still intact. We ended up having dinner and drinks at a pub over looking the castle.

Then the main reasons we came to the Diff (as Evan got us calling it) was to go out on the town to sample the local night life. Every Friday and Saturday night the city closes off the streets to traffic in it's main clubbing area so the night life can sprawl onto the main streets. It's like New Years at the Mount. One thing to note was the length, or lack of, the girls skirts pretty much non existent. Not that I was looking.
We were also introduced to chips and curry sauce in chippy lane, a small alley lined with heaps of hot chip shops selling chips in as many different ways as possible.

The next day was a bit of recovery day. We had planned to hang out at Evan and Sarahs recuperating from the night before, but after a quick trip to Sainsbury’s Supermarket we returned to realise Sarah had forgotten the house keys (really Sarah I'm not angry with you). So we headed out to where Evan was playing cricket (to get his keys) and watched for abit. It was pretty cool seeing a real English (sorry welsh) cricket ground with little white picket fence for the boundary and all.

Anyway that was Cardiff, cool castles, mad night life, little skirts and chips with curry sauce.