welsh coast - dreamland I.

on the day when i went tracking to brecon beacons, i visited cardiff bay too. well i enjoyed it, especially that i had a nice pizza and a beer in a posh pizzeria. i thought i deserved it as i had been eating sandwiches for two days. oh, and jacket potatoes in cleobury mortimer. it was ok, but quite simple. i can imagine my friends (arpi and bara) hate that food having it twice a week... so i visited cardiff bay. that's the number 2 sight in cardiff, after the centre where u can find a nice castle (haven't been inside), a big park and a cool, so called Millenium Stadium.
cardiff bay's got a cool atmosphere. it's lively, dinamic, many interesting, extravagant buildings and culture centres. i think they are trying to build up cardiff as a proper 21st century capital and they started in cardiff bay. good start.

colourful and sparkling:
cool tourist info, isn't it?
that's the way an exhibition hall looks like in cardiff.



looking back from a two months perspective i can say that the best part of my trip - on my own - was the following day. that was the first time when i could really enjoy myself since until that point i was missing Poziomka very much. then i was thinking on that the day was coming when i was gonna meet her again. even though it was quite cold, i was happy. i can't explain why. maybe because of the places i visited.
this was wednesday. my first destination was barry island. it used to be an island, but some time ago they connected it to the mainland -as far as great-britain is mainland :). so barry island is a little coastal town with a nice beach and of course as in these cases it is usual, lots of entertainment: funfairs and stuff like that.
this is how barry island looks on a lovely, cold wednesday morning. there's a long, but narrow neck of land in the background.
that's a panorama view from the neck of land (click for full size):
that's that long 'tongue':
grey, welsh coast with grey, welsh houses: