CARDIFF — I walked back into the city centre this morning and visited Cardiff Castle. The castle grounds are very spacious what with the castle’s surrounding earthworks having been built over the top of the walls of a Roman fort giving it a square shape. I climbed to the top of the keep to get some good views across Cardiff before taking a tour through the castle apartments.

I spent the afternoon wandering about town window shopping, especially around St David’s. Presumably to accompany the opening of the St David’s Shopping Centre there was a fashion show on a catwalk erected down the middle of Working Street (a pedestrian-only precinct). There were also a couple of ballerinas on stilts wandering through the crowd. You wouldn’t think there was a recession in progress with the number of people in town. Mind you, I didn’t help spend Britain out of trouble as I’m now having to seriously think about the weight of my luggage.