Cardiff Bay and the glistening Millennium Centre, Wales, July 2017
My father was born and spent his childhood in a small town north of Cardiff. His father fought for the Cardiff Pals in World War I and was sadly one of the many young men that lost their lives. It was therefore a joy to me to see a modern and golden side of our world on a recent visit to Cardiff.
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 20 July 2017
Posted as part of Skywatch Friday and All Seasons
Travel with Intent 
Lovely! Thanks for sharing!
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It is neat that you know some of your history! Kept thinking Cardiff, why does that sound so familiar? Suddenly I remembered Cardiff was in my English textbook in high school:) Thank you much for linking up that beautiful building to All Seasons!
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It was hard to find some of the details. My day was only a few months old when his father died in the war so he never knew him. 😦
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Kind of sad, huh….
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A beautiful building and quite striking
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So nice to read your connection to Cardiff. Wonderful shot!
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Lovely sky.
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Lovely shot.
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I appreciate a piece of family history, Debs. It does have a golden look to it. Did you like the city? I’ve never been. 🙂
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I didn’t love the city – I felt a bit of a sad run-down feel in parts of the town centre. I didn’t have time to fully explore, but I did find a couple of lovely shopping arcades, interesting castle (though had to dash madly as it was closing), good ice cream and very tasty Welsh cakes! Would have liked more time to try out the interesting craft beers.
The Bay area is lovely, however. Helped by shining sun. There are some striking new buildings, nice walk around bay to the barrage and decent chain restaurants for food.
I may well be back for business and will explore more closely. And I’ll definitely stay down at the Bay again. And I’d like to get to the Dr Who centre.
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Sounds like the old town has suffered for the new. It’s a bit like that here in the town centre, at the expense of the marina and retail parks.
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It’s very sad when new and chains take over from the old. But theBay won me over because of its new architecture.
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But the Bay is almost entirely corporates. Which town was your father from?
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What a lovey photo and thanks for sharing your personal connect with the City
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The Center looks like it’s made out of gold! Beautiful photo.
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It’s a very striking building – I’m sure I’ll have more images of this to share when I’ve had a chance to review.
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It’s always nice to go back to a place full of personal history.
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absolutely 🙂
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