Culture in Cardiff

The Plants invited us to join them for their annual cultural weekend in Cardiff, Wales. Having attended it last year it was an easy choice to tag along. In splendid Plants fashion the weekend was spent with much laughter, sillyness and good wine & food.

We had left the logistics to Rob which ended up with us taking the train. Believe it or not but he was so organised that we travelled back in first class. Obviously we had to keep up the appearance and when the white wine ran out we naturally had to continue with the champagne. Credit crunch, what do you mean? ;-)

The actual "excuse"g for the gathering was to go to
the opera. This year the Welsh opera house was giving a brilliant production of Mozart's the Marriage of Figaro. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. Not sure it had anything to do with the Mojitos and Caipirinhas we had before though...

Sunday was saint David's day so the Welsh were all out. Leeks, daffodils and red dragons where ever you turned. Some off us piled onto the tourist boat and went for a turn around Cardiff bay. Ian spent most of the time chatting up old ladies while Laurie and Andrea enjoyed the diesel fume at the back of the boat.

After some milling around the Docks, trying to get a coffee, it was time to leave Cardiff. Once back home we went to R&I to have pizza and to admire their blue-ray player. Unfortunately the only film they had to demonstrate with was National treasure II. When R started to rewind because he missed a scene we couldn't stand the badness anymore and went home.

More photos can be found on my flickr...