The rain continues to be magical. When we come inside, it absolutely downpours and when we venture outside, it lets up and gets sunny again. We ate breakfast with our lovely host in Bath. She grows her own kefir and gave me some homeopathic remedy for my seasonal allergies. I'm not sure if it worked or if I'm just not as allergic in Wales... but either way, I've been better this afternoon. We said goodbye and walked down to the Roman Bath house and took the tour there, and drank the obligatory sample of the mineral-rich spring water. Then we grabbed a Cornish Pasty on the way out of town and drove to Cardiff.
On the way there we crossed the River Severn, which is the root of the name Sabrina.
We got to Cardiff and headed straight for the Castle. When I did my home stay in Caerphilly, I went to the ruins of the Caerphilly Castle. Only two other people were able to go to Wales for their home stay and they went to the Cardiff castle. We were sort of comparing notes and pictures and they said they had toured a castle and I said "me too" but then I looked at their pictures of Cardiff castle (which is giant, inside great walls with a big green, and very elaborately decorated inside) and realized my trip to the Caerphilly castle wasn't even close! Ever since then, I've wanted to tour the Cardiff Castle. There was a big joust happening for school groups on the green when we entered the gates, so we got to see the final sword fight and the champion taking his victory lap on his decorated joust horse at the end of the day. It was so festive! Then we toured the house part of the castle, the big Roman keep in the center, the walls that were turned into bomb shelters during the war, and walked through the big green. It was all spectacular.
From there we drove and then ran to the Doctor Who Experience (our tickets were for the 3:30 adventure and we parked at 3:25pm, but we made it!). We went through a very cheesy 30 minute adventure through Daleks and Weeping Angels and then were let free into the warehouse of props and costumes. We had a blast looking around.
It was pouring down rain when we finished, so we waited a minute, but the museum was closing, so we headed out into it. Of course, after about one minute outside, the sun come out and we walked through the Cardiff town centre. We ate dinner at Wagamamas with a view of the town square (Roald Dahl Plass). As we were eating dinner, a whole bunch of Porsches started driving into the town square and lining themselves up. Not really sure what event it was, but definitely a pretty good Porsche parade. We walked back to our car and drove to our new home for the next three nights just outside of town. We're staying with a lovely primary school teacher named Gwenno. And her townhouse is the Welsh version of ours and I love it.
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