posted Sep 14, 2007

being welsh myself and living relativaly close to cardiff i can mention a few things for vistors to visit before heading to the stadium.

1. Cardiff Castle, the surrounding outer walls are just been put there for show but too see the real deal of the castle you will need to enter and take a look at the interior of those walls and jog back in time and see the history of cardiff.

2. Queen Street. Queen Street is easily accesses via both sides of the main cardiff rail and bus links and also the queen street railway station. Queen Street is a street stretched with retail stores such as cloths to reastraunts.

3. Beaut Park. Beaut Park is fantastic for this time of year with prey of good weather you can take a good walk or park up for a picnick. Also band stands and good play areas for children and yourself too play football etc.

4. For a good pint head too the prince of wales pre match to blend in with the locals also for a good drink prices a'nt the greatest but nowhere is that great these days

5. For Good Food go into the hardrock cafe very expensive prices but the food is top of the block also you have the opitunity to have a pint if you decide not to goto the Prince of Wales.

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posted Sep 14, 2007

Flyhalf & firkin great beer great bar block game, some good Bromwins as well

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posted Sep 15, 2007

after the game jump on the train and head for pembrokshire stay there for a day or two then get the irish ferry to roslare have a few pints in southern ireland then jump on a short flight back to france either from cork or shannon and you should be back in time for the next match

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posted Sep 17, 2007

Head onto the Bridgend train to Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan, its around 30 mins or so on the train and its a pretty scenic coastal journey.

Llantwit major is one of the prettiest towns and has an excellent dramatic beach which is a hot spot to surf at, I believe that in the 90's it was the venue for the world surfing championships.
The town also has one of the oldest and most impressive churches in south wales, and some excellent bars to visit as well, The Swan public house and Illtud gastro bar are very very good, not bad for a small town!!!

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posted Sep 30, 2007

I went to the Wales Oz game and had the misfortune to sit in row 26 of block L11. There are only 27 rows. These were supposed to be "Class 1" seats and I paid accordingly. Rubbish seats under the first tier, so far back that the first tier interferes almost totally with your view and for example, if a player chipped the ball forward you could not see it going up at all and were unaware of where it was going to land, and you could only see the bottom half of the posts. Obviously knowing this the stadium had provided TV sets so we could watch the game (which I could have done from home, thank you) and they were broken. My advice is, if you cannot get seats with numbers less than 15 in the lower stands, don't bother. Another thing, the sound back there (as it is effectively a concrete box with one side missing) is terrible - it echoes around and the PA system was candidly impossible to interpret. I didn't feel part of the game at all, had a very limited view and all this for Euro 206 a seat. Daylight robbery. AND I am Welsh so would not give my own country a hard time if it was not thoroughly deserved. Apart from that when I DID go down to the front and have a look , what a wonderful staduim it is - just a shame I could not enjoy it during the game....

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