They call Wales 'Cymru'

When planning to go away for the weekend I strongly suggest not drinking heavily on the night before you leave, as it generally leads to less sleep than what you may be used to and can lead to a general feeling of fatigue the next day. Playing X-box at 2:00 in the morning with another drunken friend is also not a very clever idea (not that I did these things J

Chris said that we had to get up at 6 AM as his brother wanted to leave early to get more out of the day, so at 6 we were up, showered, dressed and bags packed by 7, but no Nico. At 7:10 Chris phoned his brother and was answered with ‘O Donder! wat is die tyd? Jammer ek sal nou daar wees’ it wasn’t too serious, as Nico lives quite close by we just walked over there.

30 minutes out of London I asked if they were sure we were going in the right direction? About 5 minutes later we pulled over and they realised that we had been travelling on the wrong motorway, luckily it wasn’t too much of a detour. We got there in good time, and it was a nice surprise to see that the hotel we were staying in was about a stones throw away (from someone with a strong arm) from the famous millennium stadium. We were right on the river overlooking the stadium on the other side. The room was nice enough, nothing fancy but more than what we were expecting.

We had just sat down when Nico came and said we they were going to Cardiff Castle, so up we were again. The castle was really cool, filled with a truly interesting history that I will probably never remember.

Cardiff is a lot smaller than one might expect, to put it in a nutshell: public transport is not needed in the city centre. We walked around the whole city and found a market which ended up having an African section with curios exactly the same as what you would find at ‘Green Market Square’, but at ten times the price!

Had a really nice dinner at a Spanish restaurant with sangria and the English version of Spanish food, it wasn’t that bad.

By the time we got back to the room after walking around, eating dinner and watching a movie, we were way too tired to go out again, so the second my head hit the pillow it was lights out, only to be woken up repeatedly by quite possibly the noisest beds in the whole of Wales if not the world.

Before I forget, they speak a different language in Wales, and they call Wales 'Cymru' however I forgot to find out how to pronounce it.