Here is a photo page of random pictures of Cardiff that i have taken and will take.
Cardiff is the Capital city of Wales, one of the 4 countries that make up the UK.
It has an official population of 325,000 but over 1 million people live within 20 minutes of the city. Its a city with a large mix of modern and old, with a very compact city center, and is a very green city with large parks and a wonderful waterside.
Beautiful pictures Does the area around the city Hall and civic buildings feel quite isolated and cut off from the rest of the city centre? In pics it just doesn't come across as being as vibrant or busy as the rest of Cardiff's centre.
It doesnt feel isolated or cut off, but it does feel seperate (both mentally and physically by a dual carriageway and city lawns). These pics were taken on a Monday night at 8pm so there wernt alot of people about (i need to get over my fear of taking pictures in crowds), but during the day time there are alot of students, government and council workers and tourist going to the national museum. It feels far more connected to the student areas to the north east than the city center to the south. My next set of pics shows you the areas it connects with.
Cathays looks like a lovely area with very nice architecture. Very much like Henleaze or Westbury in Bristol. Also love the last picture with my favourite Cardiff tower in it.
The problem is when you head further East Cathays becomes a bit of a mess. I live in Miskin Street, which is nice but then you've got Salisbury Road which looks like a war zone. I think the council needs to invest in that area and make it more attractive. Senghennydd Court and Halls needs a revamp, but looks better recently with a coat of paint! The junction nr Senghennydd Court and Hall also looks much better now with new road markings and so on.
Thanks everyone, Cathays has been a very studenty area for years so landlords and residents haven't really been that interested in its aesthetics. However if you continue going east into Roath then it gets progressively more beautiful as you have a mix of students and proffesionals (incidentally would you count beautiful Richmond road as Cathays Liamcymro?). There has been a huge amount of purpose built student accomodation recently, so will be interesting to see if the houses are taken up by famalies in the future.
Not a fan of Torchwood, but the amount of people you see milling around the different sites (and the amount of kids!). there will be a museum built soon to all things Torchwood and doctor who so will be even worse lol!
A couple of the harbour festival, only went over on the first day as working nights (despite it being around the corner from me)
Beautiful photo's, i especially love the orange sky ones (the 2nd one with the boats in particular ). We got that orange sky here aswell and i was so tempted to go to liverpool with my camera but i had arrangements for the night
Great shots cardiff! That was a lovely sunset on Friday last week - though the best of it had vanished by the time the clouds cleared here. We did have a rather splendid thundestorm though.
Caroline street, known locally as 'chippy alley' due to the number of takaway shops frequented after the clubs close! Here you can see its beeing cleaned due to the build up of chips that makes this street like a skating rink about 4am
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