Cardiff Castle

Thursday night and we spent visiting with another study abroad group from BYU. Their group was from the linguistics department, and they were traveling all around Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England studying variations on the English language. They had some stories for us and we taught them a Welsh folk song and it mostly made me thankful I chose this program. They spend most of their time traveling, their group is bigger and a little less cohesive, their professors weren’t nearly as cool as Tom, and they seemed to have a lot more schoolwork to complete. Nonetheless, it was great to see some fellow BYU students and spend the evening at McDonalds…it was the only place big enough to really hold us all : )

Friday morning we went to Cardiff Castle with their group and had a pretty fun time. The castle was originally built in Norman times, then fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in the Gothic revival of Victorian times by the same guy who built Castell Coch. The furnishings were much the same as Castell Coch’s, but Cardiff Castle was much bigger. It was a cool site and I took a few pictures, though not as many as I would have liked because in some of these sites they get pretty touchy about allowing photography. So if I only have pictures of the outside of a place, I apologize.

Cardiff Castle keep, the oldest part of the castle

View from the top of the keep, courtyard in front, castle to right, Cardiff city in the background
A statue in a park in Cardiff. I was trying to mimick it and look sad, but I started laughing instead :)