Kincuri.com » rugby http://blog.kincuri.com Student, Public Servant, Casual Archer, Coffee Snob and Nerdy Nerd Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:07:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 London to Cardiff http://blog.kincuri.com/2009/09/05/london-to-cardiff/ http://blog.kincuri.com/2009/09/05/london-to-cardiff/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:24:55 +0000 kincuri http://kincuri.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/london-to-cardiff/ Related posts:
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]]> Happily, the trip continues to go smoothly, after making the trip from London to Cardiff, where I will spend just less than a week before heading back to London.

I was lucky to be able to jump off the train and walk down to where my accommodation is (right on the River Taff!). The apartment is part of a newly finished development just down from Cardiff Bay, so it’s brand new, fully furnished, and makes for a pleasant change from the student accommodation I had in London (I have my own bathroom and kitchen…)

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The view from my apartment

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I headed down to Cardiff Bay for dinner, fish and chips again (the meal I think I’ve eaten the most since getting into the UK, all of which have been very good). Taking in some of the Doctor Who/Torchwood sights whilst I was there :)

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Torchwood seems to have taken on a new image, with the water tower donning a strawberry theme.

I had almost forgotten that there was supposed to be a local Rugby match in Cardiff last night! It was pretty good timing, as it was the first game of the season, as well as the first game for the Cardiff Blues at the brand new Cardiff City Stadium, which has around the same capacity, and eventual crowd (around 8,500) as Canberra Stadium. Being more enclosed than Canberra, the crowd came across much louder (and very passionate!) compared to a Raiders match.

It was an exciting match too, with Cardiff only just losing out to Edinburgh by 1 point (22 to 21). The Blues had been trailing by 6 points for most of the second half, but managed to score a try with about 3 minutes to go, but unfortunately missed the conversion.

Similar to the signs around the town, all of the match announcements were made in Welch before being said again in English. Its nice to see that the local language is still being supported.

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About to head out to see the Doctor Who exhibition at the Red Dragon centre this morning. In preparation, and for education, I thought I should try marmite for breakfast this morning. Despite it smelling horrible compared to Vegemite, and having a consistency similar to honey, happily it didn’t taste too drastically different from vegemite.

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  1. Westminster and TARDIS – Part 2
  2. London Theatre
  3. First Post: Concentrate and make it poignant

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