25th July Cardiff

 

Ivy’s sister lives just outside Cardiff, in Dinas Powys, so we pop across when we can. This time, however, we insisted Ivy came with us as it turned out they hadn’t seen each other for several years. To fit in with Ivy’s job at Asda we left after her shift on Wednesday, about 2pm and came back Thursday evening leaving at 7pm so Ivy could go to work Friday morning.

We had a long drawn-out journey on the way there as the M25 was slow and there was an accident on the M4 so we arrived at 6pm. dinner was a BBQ with home grown courgettes, potatoes and rosemary to place on the coals, yes the weather had picked up so sitting out was a viable option, only the mosquitoes drove us indoors to continue chatting about St. Helena and people we know. Connie phoned while we were there so it was great to hear from her again.

Next day we set off to explore Cardiff bay and see the locations used in Torchwood as Ivy hadn’t seen them. First we visited wetlands and the we wandered into the bay. Saints take lots of photos wherever they go. There were an amazing number of fish in the bay!

We wandered the bay from one end to the other passing the shrine to Ianto Jones and the secret entrance to Torchwood. Further along we passed the Norwegian church, now an art gallery and coffee shop, then round to the new Dr . Who exhibition.Maddison had given us strict instructions not to go inside to look round so we only slipped into the shop to pick her up a poster of Matt Smith and a sonic screwdriver. The prices for the exhibition are quite steep £15 for adults and £11 for under 16’s so it is something we will do only once!

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On the way back to the car it was time for an ice-cream (a 99 with flake), it has been such a long time since I have had one. Then back to Joyce’s for traditional Saint fare – plo and fish cakes. Joyce packed the extra fish cakes into sandwiches and added some marble cake for us to eat on the way back but due to the lack of traffic it only took 3 hours so we ate when we made it back to Ivy’s.