On Cardiff Bay

Cardiff became far, far more interesting since Ceridwen and I took a walking tour for two hours this morning. I didn't know the Roman background, nor the fact that it went from being a small town to a major city within one lifetime. There's also a pirate-gangster history and several other threads that make the place open up like a bursting flower.

This is the waterfront at Cardiff Bay, where at the end of the 19th Century a fifth of the world's coal was loaded into the holds of ships. It's been transformed into tourist, entertainment, and legislative space in very intelligent ways. This is why the docks seemed alive and interesting on this warm & sunny autumn day.