7/25/02 Cardiff, Wales (Phill)
So I've managed to hit all the four countries in the British Isles (okay I'm not counting Northern Ireland, so sue me) in the past 7 days. Have to admit though, I wasn't exactly blown away by Wales. Cardiff was really just another industrialized town. I actually was so not interested in the few sights there were that I went and saw a movie instead.
I did manage to find another thing in London that I hadn't seen before: 'Britain at War', which is basically an old subway station that was used as a shelter during WWII. A really great 'museum' but not in the traditional sense. You walk through and there's smoke and shouting etc... The walls are lined with British Propaganda posters and newspapers from the day. The one funny thing though was as you walked in an "Evening Standard" (London's newspaper) billboard greeted you with that day’s headline of 'War Breaks Out'. It was all faded to look like it from authentic. Well, it looked authentic until I looked closely and saw that it had www.eveningstandard.co.uk printed on the bottom! So either it wasn't real or the British forces had email 70 years ago!
Was booking a flight to Barcelona for Monday except it turns out my aunt is driving to Paris that day, so I can catch a lift there and catch an onward train to Barcelona and then Italy.
Posted by Admin at July 25, 2002 03:20 PM