Cardiff Castle

This past weekend we took a tour of Cardiff Castle, which is in downtown Cardiff. The most impressive part of this castle is the "apartments." This was redone in the mid-to-late 1800s by some rich guy named Bute. And by rich, i mean most of the walls and ceilings were goldleafed. We don't have any pictures to show since visitors are not allowed to take pictures. We do,

however, have some pictures of the exterior. To the left is a picture from the outside of the castle. I believe that the bus stop is not original to the castle.

What's that you say. Take a closer picture of that tower because there seems to be some nice stuff on it. Okay, here you go:

You'll see Millenium Stadium in the background. This is were Wales lost by 7 points to England in the 6 Nations Rugby game the previous night.

What's that you say, still not close enough to see what's on that tower. Okay, let's have aaron risk his life scaling the wall to get a close up. If he falls, he knows to throw the camera in the bushes so that the picture is saved.

After the castle tour, we went down hill street and into the Central Market:

Then a bite to eat at Cafe Minuet inside one of the many arcades:

And to end the day, we visited the oldest record shop in the world: Spillers Records.

You can tell they are old-school by the picture of Elisa's favorite gansta rapper Vanilla Ice.