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Cardiff.

Now, apart from going to the conference, we had a little extra time to spend in Cardiff, and just in case you would like to hear about that as well... here you go.

First of all, Cardiff was really, really nice. They have a very good and quite affordable public transport system, with a bus going out to Cardiff Bay every few minutes and buses going everywhere about all the time. (Except to the airport on a Sunday morning!) There is lots of small and large shops and many different shopping arcades, a large covered market where you can buy food and other stuff, several parcs, the very imposing castle, lovely food for fair or very fair prices and lots of friendly people.

My only problem with the friendly people that were chatting at us randomly was that I sometimes had a lot of trouble understanding the accent. It’s a lovely accent (I am a fan of locally different forms of language anyways) and I had already heard a little bit more of it due to watching Torchwood, but sometimes… well, sometimes it could as well have been Welsh they were speaking at me.

Apart from all this, there is also lots of culture going on in Cardiff – events at museums, galleries, there’s the Millenium Centre with lots of stuff happening and so on and so on. We had not enough time to take advantage of all that, but altogether, it reminded me a tiny bit of London, only much smaller and less expensive. (And with probably more Dr Who and Torchwood.) We did manage to stroll along the Bay and visit the Dr Who experience, which was a lot of fun.

The only disappointment was public transport to the airport. It is called “Cardiff International Airport” but should probably called “Wales International Heliport”, judging from its size. It has exactly one runway and is tiny, and with only very few flights going in and out. (Nuremburg has only one runway and is sort of as tiny, but much more busy.) Now, I’m all for small airports (I find them much more charming and nice, in general, than the huge ones), but if it is not possible to get there by train or bus by 9:30 on a Sunday… well, that is kind of inconvenient. We had to take a taxi out to get there in time, not something I had planned on.
To be fair, we had to take a taxi to get out to Nuremburg airport on our way to Cardiff as well, but that was for a flight taking off at 6 in the morning, and I can understand public transport not running then! 

That minor issue aside, I totally enjoyed being in Cardiff, as well as the conference, and I could well imagine going back there some day in the future. Probably in the summer, though, not in January!
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Anonymous on Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 14:20

'Ashford International' is where the Eurostar used to stop between London and Dover when it first opened. It looked more than a bit funny standing on this bright concrete, glass and chrome platform stood in the middle of a vegetable field!

Heather

'Ashford International' is where the Eurostar used to stop between London and Dover when it first opened. It looked more than a bit funny standing on this bright concrete, glass and chrome platform stood in the middle of a vegetable field!

Heather
rectangularcat (website) on Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 09:00

I am dying (!) to know how the lead impacted the dyeing! Will you publish the results? I am very curious!

I am dying (!) to know how the lead impacted the dyeing! Will you publish the results? I am very curious!
a stitch in time (website) on Montag, 11. Februar 2013 09:22

We will definitely publish the results, and they will possibly be posted online and open-access (though that is not completely clear yet). I will keep you posted in the blog!

We will definitely publish the results, and they will possibly be posted online and open-access (though that is not completely clear yet). I will keep you posted in the blog!
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