The Albatross
Monday 24 June 2019
As I’m a bit of an idiot, I forgot that many museums don’t open on Mondays, so the supposedly excellent Cardiff museum will go unexplored. Instead we fortified ourselves with a fish finger butty and tackled Cardiff Castle instead (hopefully the last for a little while). It was a castle, most of it hadn’t fallen down. It’s party trick was that the Marquis of Bute glammed the place up in the late 1800’s and employed William Burges to turn it into this sort of Medieval leisure palace. Think Kryal Castle, but with a lot more money behind it. They’d obviously had a big event there yesterday which they were packing up, so it was a tad hard to walk around and a tad noisy.
They had used the passageway in the walls as air raid shelters in WWII, and there was a section left to give you a feel for what it was like.
Off for a late lunch at a place we’d researched. A fabulous 3 course elegant Italian meal. We waddled out a couple of hours later and had a wander through the market and picked up supplies for dinner, which might be quite late tonight.
