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[ddraig]

err
Bumble’s Guide To Cardiff!
quite funny in parts, something to do with cricket!
http://news.thecricketpaper.com/featured/441/bumbles-guide-to-cardiff/

The emergence of Cardiff as an international cricket venue and particularly it hosting the first Ashes Test in 2009 meant I could sample the delights of the Welsh capital for a few nights. I was really impressed.

The first place I’d head to would be the Old Arcade in the city centre. It’s a Brains pub with loads of hand pumps and the ale is kept in brilliant nick. It’s got lots of character with its old wooden floors and a back room and a front room with plenty of TVs with sport on.

It’s always lively and I can’t imagine wearing an England rugby shirt while drinking – they are rugby daft in Cardiff.

and

I once got stuck in the Walkabout with the South African cricket team after an ODI and it was eye-opening. In true Australian fashion there was a punch-up after a few beers and it was all kicking off and the police locked us in.

I thought I’d try to be helpful and tell a police- woman that one big Australian chap had started it all off. Her reply was just two words and the second of them was off – I couldn’t believe it.

There’s some cracking pubs around the Millennium Stadium –some of which never seem to be empty – and there’s a few that it might be best not speaking English in! I’d ask for a pint, say ‘yaki da’, and sit down quietly.

I’ve also been down to Cardiff Bay on occasions and that’s lively and their version of Marbella.

It’s all young people with bars by the sea and yachts on show – I’d prefer to stick in the city centre where there’s plenty going on.

 

[ddraig]

Skunkadelic and Ruby Samba video in Cardiff

 

[ddraig]

Open Doors Cardiff
http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/opendoors/events-2014/cardiff-llandaff-events/?lang=en
Open Doors events in Cardiff/Llandaff
Open Doors - St Mary's Church, St Fagans, 06 September 2014

Open Doors - St Nicholas' Greek Orthodox Church, 06 September 2014

Open Doors - Cardiff Reform Synagogue, 07 September 2014

Open Doors - Cardiff Bay Barage, 10 September - 18 September 2014

Open Doors - St Michael's College, Cardiff, 12 September - 14 September 2014

Open Doors - Dyffryn Gardens, 13 September 2014

Open Doors - East Vale Group of Churches, 13 September 2014

Open Doors - Glamorgan Archives, 13 September 2014

Open Doors - Cardiff Riding School, 14 September 2014

Open Doors - WJEC Headquarters, 16 September 2014

Open Doors - Ysgol Pencae, 18 September 2014

Open Doors - Howells School, Llandaff, 19 September 2014

Open Doors - Broadcasting House, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - City of Llandaff, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - Llandaff Cathedral, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - National Assembly Estate, Pierhead and Ty Hywel, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - St Anne's Church in Wales, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - St Edwards Church, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - Tabernacl, Eglwys y Bedyddwyr, 20 September 2014

Open Doors - St Margaret's Church, Roath, 20 September - 21 September 2014

Open Doors - Cathays Cemetery, 21 September 2014

 

[editor]

Great to see the docks busy again, but...

Warships from navies around Europe continue to arrive in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday ahead of the Nato Summit.

French Nave ship La Motte Picquet arrived shortly before lunchtime. It joins British Navy destroyer HMS Duncan, which arrived on Tuesday.

The M-05 Viesturs ship from Latvia, a minehunter, is currently already docked at the Roath Basin site.

They are set to be joined by Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Urk, a superfast missile patrol boat decked out in camouflage colours called HNoMS Skudd from Norway, and the German-built minesweeper LNS Kursis from Lithuania.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/nato-summit-2014-british-french-7712712

 

[ddraig]

the english pigs have been arresting people for protesting, no where near any sites or buildings involved in the conference

 

[ddraig]

 

[ddraig]

more on Coal Exchange
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-29043247

The company which owns Cardiff's historic Coal Exchange has gone into liquidation casting doubt over the building's future.

 

[phoenixlily]

I love how delicate and understated that MASSIVE WAR SHIP IS

barely fits through that waterway!

it's stationed outside my office right now and you can't see anything out the window apart from its massive grey side. War is so drab.

 

[editor]

I love how delicate and understated that MASSIVE WAR SHIP IS

barely fits through that waterway!

it's stationed outside my office right now and you can't see anything out the window apart from its massive grey side. War is so drab.

War is MONEY! I bet the Cardiff bigwigs are loving their chance to rub shoulders with the global bigboys.

The sight of tanks on that golf course really summed up how daft this whole thing is.

 

[phoenixlily]

War is MONEY! I bet the Cardiff bigwigs are loving their chance to rub shoulders with the global bigboys.

The sight of tanks on that golf course really summed up how daft this whole thing is.

It really did. Very silly.

I did a round-up on it all earlier. Some things people are posting are really amusing! http://wearecardiff.co.uk/2014/09/0...rdiff-fallout-photos-links-and-fringe-events/

 

[nogojones]

War is MONEY! I bet the Cardiff bigwigs are loving their chance to rub shoulders with the global bigboys.

The sight of tanks on that golf course really summed up how daft this whole thing is.

I hope it really fucked the green up

 

[ddraig]

fence is down now near the castle

 

[phoenixlily]

fence is down now near the castle

I miss it now.

 

[Ranbay]

It's like nothing ever happend now......

 

[nogojones]

I was talking to someone who plays rugby with lots of coppers today and they've had a wild time. One done 36 days straight and is on for a good few thousand in overtime. Another one booked a holiday to the Dominican Republic for all his family and has plenty change.

 

[ddraig]

i bet, not much to do, mob handed, cushy number

 

[la ressistance]

It was great fun, very interesting to see. Shame we had to pay for it. And all the guns was unpleasant .Also, I'm in that Arial photo near the war ship, I was having a pint in the seamans mission when it went past.

 

[ddraig]

oh yes

saw this the other day, prob NSFW!
Ninjah doing a tribute to Shaky Hands Man and Toy Mic Trevor
and a convincing woman
the lyrics had me howling

another Ninjah vid

 

[ddraig]

the shame!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/its-official-cardiff-greggs-capital-7789453

Whichever your favourite is, wherever you are in Cardiff, you’re only a sausage roll away from your nearest Greggs bakery.

The city has been crowned Greggs capital of Wales - and with 25 of the bakery chain’s stores in the city it’s no surprise.

There are 7.1 of the bakery’s stores for every 100,000 people living in Cardiff, putting it firmly in the top 10 most over-Gregged areas for the whole of Great Britain.

Joint second place is taken by Blaenau Gwent, where there are four branches, and Bridgend, which has eight.

In those areas there are 5.7 stores per 100,000 people.

The average for the whole of Britain was only 2.7.

In total there are 25 Greggs stores in Cardiff, four in Blaenau Gwent and eight in Bridgend.

There are only 35 out of 372 local authorities in Britain which do not have a Greggs.

Cardiff was beaten in the pasty league table by Newcastle, Gateshead, Allerdale in Cumbria, Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and tied for sixth place with Copeland in Cumbria.

 

[drachir]

Burger & Lobster opening in Cardiff... not sure I like all these London chains opening Cardiff branches!

(Burger & Lobster don't have any veg options either, so I can't even eat there... I seemed to know loads more other veggies in Cardiff than I do in London though, so maybe they'll have to adapt)

 

[ddraig]

101 metre wall in Cathays done with graffiti
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lkiu9tXMDUVDEyajNpTFBmR2M/preview

 

[rhod]

Kids' entertainment, in the days before the Xbox, iPad and personal claims lawyers took over..

 

[wayward bob]

101 metre wall in Cathays done with graffiti

i used to live on cranbrook street, love what they've done, will have to go have a proper nosy.

 

[wayward bob]

... personal claims lawyers took over..

that was quite a lot of blood on that kid

 

[Supine]

It really did. Very silly.

I did a round-up on it all earlier. Some things people are posting are really amusing! http://wearecardiff.co.uk/2014/09/0...rdiff-fallout-photos-links-and-fringe-events/

Haha, just saw mr cockers lovely face on that website

 

[ddraig]

anyone been done by this camera on Newport rd?
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...iggest-money/story-23034611-detail/story.html

A new speed camera in Cardiff has become Britain's biggest money-spinning traffic trap.

The camera has already caught 13,624 drivers in its first six month when it became fully operational earlier this year.

The 30mph camera at a busy junction on Newport Road in Cardiff has trapped an average 71 drivers a day - almost treble the previous top speed camera.

According to a survey last year, the busiest device was at Junction 25 on the M60 in Greater Manchester - it caught 26 speeding drivers per day.



Read more: http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...tory-23034611-detail/story.html#ixzz3F0ZgOb1g
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[Plumdaff]

There's a fairly obvious way to avoid getting caught....

 

[ddraig]

agreed!

 

[nogojones]

anyone been done by this camera on Newport rd?
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.c...iggest-money/story-23034611-detail/story.html

Its one of the few static cams I've seen that doesn't appear to have a warning sign along the road. I know a friend got done by it at 5am a couple of months back and she was most annoyed. I've got no personal problem with it, as I've slowed down quite a bit over the years

 

[Ranbay]

It's been there ages? like over a year.