Cardiff, Wales

It is a sleepy city of a quarter million. Cardiff is a charmer. It boasts some old Victorian enclosed markets with lovely iron and glass skylit ceilings. 

All to the peril of pedestrians, the streets and the sidewalks are all the same. 

The Welsh language is surely a mystery. Celtic in nature, it contains fewer consonants than we Americans are accustomed to. 

Cardiff is the main city here, but Fishguard is the town where one catches the large ferry to Rosslare. It is a three and a half hour ferry ride.