Cardiff is my home town although we lived apart for more than twenty-five years. But I’m back now, and in my absence it has become a changed place. It is a safe, welcoming, vibrant city to be proud of- and of course it has the finest rugby stadium in the world right in the heart of town. Where else can you fall out of the ground straight into any one of dozens of pubs to celebrate Wales giving England another bashing in the Six Nations?
I confess I still sometimes desert her for a few months, but then absence makes the heart grow fonder. So here are a few of my favourite images, that capture her at her best perhaps- the essence of a town called home.
Two Iconic buildings from the Bay
Reflections from a Silver tower
Window cleaning a big job
The bug eyed crane
Kids and grown-ups
Man peers into world
Senedd debating chamber
Memorial to merchant seamen
HMS Scott and the Stavros Niachos
The winged hotel
Meeting under Pont-Y-Werin bridge
Norwegian Church & Scott Memorial
Magic circles in yellow
The Barrage at Night
Sunset over the Marina
Brains Brewery and a seagull
The Red House pub- RIP
Buff challenges the Bristol Channel
Gareth Edwards, simply the best
Ghostly Statues in the cathedral
Cardiff Castle from Bute Park
Tree carving in Bute Park
Cardiff City Hall
The City Hall Dragon
House on the Green
Victoria Park pool
Hari Krishna
The Jeweller
Sewing Machine shop window
Cow & Snuffers public house- closed now
Magic Roundabout
Police quartet on horseback
Unknown Warrior
Temple of Peace
Rememberance Day
Regimental mascot- Taffy The Goat
Guardsmen resting
Photographer photographed
Womenfolk on the riverbank
Wetlands on the Bay