Picspam | Cardiff 2009
Jul. 24th, 2009 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galatheaSo, usually I don't post personal stuff in this journal, but I thought I'll make an exception for this one. :) This summer ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nikkimisplaced and I visited llywela13 in Cardiff for a couple of days. We wanted to meet each other for years, but RL issues always intervened, so we were all excited that our plans finally worked out this year. We had a fabulous time together and inevitably pictures were taken. So, here's a little picspam of Cardiff & the surrounding area.
First off, I wanted to thanknikkimisplaced and llywela13 for being wonderful hosts and even better company. We pretty much instantly settled into a relaxed and very comfortable routine together that consisted mostly of lazy mornings, long walks around Cardiff over the afternoon and DVD sessions in the evenings. Nikki and I are night persons, whereas Jo is a morning person and so we thought that our combined power would be able to lure Jo to the dark side, but instead it was the other way round. The exercise and the overdose of fresh air pretty much made us drop dead early in the evenings. I can't remember the last time I actually went to bed before midnight! LOL
I have to say that the reports about the rainy welsh weather are vastly exaggerated, because we had sunshine almost every day (as these photos amply prove). I even got a sunburn! It was only once or twice that we actually got wet on our touristy activities. :)
I used a mix of my own and Nikki's and Jo's photos, depending on who got the best shot, but mostly I used Nikki's and Jo's images, because the photos from my camera were very pixel-y on high resolutions. These are on 1200x900px if you click on the thumbnails in my gallery. :) Most of the images have been touched up a bit in Photoshop, but I simply adjusted brightness, contrast, sharpness and colour intensity where necessary, nothing major.
Since we are all camera-shy, you won't see any pictures of any of us here, but I think the prettiness of Cardiff compensates for that. *g* Obviously I only posted a couple of the photos that we took on location, otherwise this post would have been too huge. I hope you enjoy the little assortment. :)
Now, onto the picspam (click on the thumbnails for bigger images):
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St. Fagans is a welsh open-air museum where original buildings from different historical periods have been re-erected - old farmhouses, churches, craft buildings etc. It's like a walk through history. Most of the Doctor Who two-parter 'Family of Blood' has been filmed here. We just watched the episodes 3 days after we visited the grounds and I admit that I didn't pay attention to the background and completely missed it until Chelsea, Jo's little sister, pointed it out to me. *g*
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This is the place that houses the famous Torchwood Hub, well, famous to those of us who watch the Torchwood Series. Looks remarkably intact, considering that they just blew it up in the S3 mini-series. *g* Unfortunately Cardiff festival took place when we were there, so the metal column in the middle was all plastered in strawberry stickers. Not sure if Captain Jack approved of that. ;)
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Roath Park is actually situated in the middle of Cardiff, near the place where Jo used to live. It's a huge area, with nesting water birds. Beautiful! Cosmeston Lakes is a nature preserve near Penarth, that also houses a medieval village. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit that one, but instead we went to see the Penarth Pier (see end of picspam).
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This little fella has been the most fearless squirrel I have ever encountered! It actually came right up to our feet and eyeballed our toes, ready to nibble on them. *g* I am pretty sure we would have been able to hand-feed it. :)
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In the background of this photo you can see the island Flat Holm, where a good part of the Torchwood episode 'Adrift' was filmed. The island, easily identified by its lighthouse, can be spotted from the Penarth waterfront on a clear day. Unfortunately the boat ride out to the island was too expensive, otherwise we would have visited it as well.
nikkimisplaced and I visited llywela13 in Cardiff for a couple of days. We wanted to meet each other for years, but RL issues always intervened, so we were all excited that our plans finally worked out this year. We had a fabulous time together and inevitably pictures were taken. So, here's a little picspam of Cardiff & the surrounding area. First off, I wanted to thank
nikkimisplaced and llywela13 for being wonderful hosts and even better company. We pretty much instantly settled into a relaxed and very comfortable routine together that consisted mostly of lazy mornings, long walks around Cardiff over the afternoon and DVD sessions in the evenings. Nikki and I are night persons, whereas Jo is a morning person and so we thought that our combined power would be able to lure Jo to the dark side, but instead it was the other way round. The exercise and the overdose of fresh air pretty much made us drop dead early in the evenings. I can't remember the last time I actually went to bed before midnight! LOL I have to say that the reports about the rainy welsh weather are vastly exaggerated, because we had sunshine almost every day (as these photos amply prove). I even got a sunburn! It was only once or twice that we actually got wet on our touristy activities. :)
I used a mix of my own and Nikki's and Jo's photos, depending on who got the best shot, but mostly I used Nikki's and Jo's images, because the photos from my camera were very pixel-y on high resolutions. These are on 1200x900px if you click on the thumbnails in my gallery. :) Most of the images have been touched up a bit in Photoshop, but I simply adjusted brightness, contrast, sharpness and colour intensity where necessary, nothing major.
Since we are all camera-shy, you won't see any pictures of any of us here, but I think the prettiness of Cardiff compensates for that. *g* Obviously I only posted a couple of the photos that we took on location, otherwise this post would have been too huge. I hope you enjoy the little assortment. :)
Now, onto the picspam (click on the thumbnails for bigger images):
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St. Fagans is a welsh open-air museum where original buildings from different historical periods have been re-erected - old farmhouses, churches, craft buildings etc. It's like a walk through history. Most of the Doctor Who two-parter 'Family of Blood' has been filmed here. We just watched the episodes 3 days after we visited the grounds and I admit that I didn't pay attention to the background and completely missed it until Chelsea, Jo's little sister, pointed it out to me. *g*
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This is the place that houses the famous Torchwood Hub, well, famous to those of us who watch the Torchwood Series. Looks remarkably intact, considering that they just blew it up in the S3 mini-series. *g* Unfortunately Cardiff festival took place when we were there, so the metal column in the middle was all plastered in strawberry stickers. Not sure if Captain Jack approved of that. ;)
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Roath Park is actually situated in the middle of Cardiff, near the place where Jo used to live. It's a huge area, with nesting water birds. Beautiful! Cosmeston Lakes is a nature preserve near Penarth, that also houses a medieval village. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit that one, but instead we went to see the Penarth Pier (see end of picspam).
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This little fella has been the most fearless squirrel I have ever encountered! It actually came right up to our feet and eyeballed our toes, ready to nibble on them. *g* I am pretty sure we would have been able to hand-feed it. :)
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In the background of this photo you can see the island Flat Holm, where a good part of the Torchwood episode 'Adrift' was filmed. The island, easily identified by its lighthouse, can be spotted from the Penarth waterfront on a clear day. Unfortunately the boat ride out to the island was too expensive, otherwise we would have visited it as well.
