Following a fairly uneventful week in Cardiff, Lauren and I were really excited were really excited for our 3 weekend visitors: Kate, Megan, and Suzanne! Kate is studying in Granada, Spain for the semester, and Megan and Suzanne are in London.
Kate arrived Thursday evening and Lauren and I spent a nice night in with her, highlighted by making a delicious stir fry and taking a trip to McDonalds for McFlurries (side note: McFlurries in the UK are awesome! they use real Cadbury fudge and chocolate mmm).
On Friday, Kate came to our Welsh language class, where we learned nothing about Welsh language--the day's lecture was a 50 minute whirlwind history of Wales. Kate explored the city a bit while Lauren and I suffered through Physics lab and then we met Suzanne and Megan at their bus stop! We made some Tesco pizza for dinner and then had a fun night out!
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| Happy to be reunited! |
On Saturday, Lauren and I showed our friends all around Cardiff. We started at Llandaff, a small village near us that is within Cardiff. It had a gorgeous cathedral, lots of cute cafes, and felt like we were in the rural English countryside. This village is also the hometown of the author Roald Dahl.
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| The enormous Llandaff cathedral. |
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| Inside the cathedral--very impressive. |
We walked around the city center for a while, stopping at the Cardiff market for desserts, checking out the many cute shops, and getting coffee. We then decided to venture to the Cardiff bay, where Lauren and I had never been. It was ~20 minute walk past the city center. I think we were expecting a lot more than what we saw...there is a beautiful new center for performances (the Millennium Center), a bunch of cute, but expensive, restaurants and shops, and not much else. It was SO foggy so we couldn't even enjoy the view.
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| The fog-covered bay. |
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| In the bay. |
We walked back to the city center for a nice dinner and then settled in for the night after another round of McFlurries.
We didn't have much time to do anything with them on Sunday, since their buses left at 12:30, but we did make it to the riverside market where we got some delicious treats. It was so great to see Kate, Megan, and Suzanne and I'm so happy they visited! Next weekend, Lauren and I are catching a bus to London to visit Megan and Suzanne and see Sbranz (and a few other Townhouse 6Bers!) and will spend time in Spain with Kate over our spring break.
...speaking of
spring break,
my tickets are booked!
- Granada
- Barcelona
- Prague
- Budapest
- Munich (where I am meeting up with my parents--we are doing numbers 5, 6, and 7 together!)
- London
- Cardiff
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